The photos from this exhibition were taken at Benares, Haridwar and Rishikesh, three towns that intersect with the great sacred waterway. |
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Giving an examle the puran talks about an event that occurred ages before about a hunter from Benares. |
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The trio of albums that make up Rendez-vous conjure up colourful images of Paris, Benares and Mexico City. |
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The Four Noble Truths are the original teachings of Buddha Shakyamuni formulated in the Benares Sermon. |
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After a journey which lasted quite a time, for Gautama the Buddha was still weak from his privation, he arrived at Benares and he met the five associates whom he had been seeking. |
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Employed in the court of the Maharaja of Benares, their influence proved to be strong, and Pyar Khan, it seems, played a significant role in the style of sitar playing that developed in Benares and Lucknow. |
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Guided by this belief, the Benares Sanskrit College was founded in Varanasi in 1791 during the administration of Lord Cornwallis. |
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At Benares and Allahabad, the disarmings were bungled, also leading to local revolts. |
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Versatile percussionist Shawn Mativetsky is a ganda-band disciple of Pandit Sharda Sahai of the Benares tabla gharana and has also studied tabla with Bob Becker. |
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After returning, I went to Benares with my parents, for my father was to perform a shraddha ceremony there. |
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The origin of dukkha resides, as it is stated in the Benares sutra, in greed, in the desire for sensory objects, and also in the desire for existence, and the desire of inexistence. |
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I hooked up with the singer Indrani Mukherjee and the tabla-player Apurba Mukherjee in Benares and it was at that point that I felt the first stirrings of an idea. |
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The ghâts of Benares, where all the holy madnes of the Indians is concentrated, will remain engraved upon my soul. My dream is to be away, always, on the road. |
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