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I attended two full days of this year's CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas. What a show that was! 150,000 people moving about the convention center and the Venetian hotel (venues for all the exhibits).
I used to attend Comdex many years back, but that was replaced by CES and it's focus has broadened to all kinds of consumer products – TV, Tablets, cameras, audio, smart phones, etc. As expected, we are living in a connected world and smart devices are all over. Whereas the past years centered around the PC and Microsoft, this year's CES did not even have Microsoft as a participant (remember how Bill Gates used to make major announcements at Comdex?). This year's keynotes were delivered by Qualcomm, Panasonic, Samsung, and Verizon. Mobile devices were the big thing, as Android phones were on display by all major vendors. There were too many iPhone/iPad accessories on display, so much so that you get tired of it.
Walking the halls of the convention center requires lots of physical strength, as one could walk 10-15 miles in a day. The LG booth was very impressive with 3D Television on a giant curved screen, where objects come to hit your face. The big news was the giant 80 to 100 inch TVs going for $20,000 – all 4k HD technology with unprecedented clarity of pictures. LG even showed 50 inch curved TV (called flexible display). The OLED TV is extremely thin. The real big news is connectivity. From the tablet to the TV to the laptop screen, events can move wirelessly. Apple clearly has changed the landscape with its touch interface in iPhone and iPad and everyone now offers similar tablets coming in all sorts of sizes. Interestingly, Apple does not have a booth nor its executives ever speak at this event.
Marc Benioff was there at a keynote session and he spoke about how the convergence of consumers and business is happening. Several panels talked about cloud contents and regulatory challenges. The FCC chairman Julius Genachowski was there also talking of broadband, spectrum reform, and competition policy matters. I listened to an interesting presentation of the future UI – called NUI (Natural User Interface) based on multi-touch, vocal, gesture and neural modes. It is good to see HTML5′s Touch event spec V2 is being readied for standardization.
For an enterprise software guy like me, this show may look less relevant, but enterprises are impacted in a big way by the consumer devices and technology. Hence we have the phrase "consumerization of IT" and BYOD. The Cloud is blurring the difference between personal software and work software as they have to intermingle and mesh.
It was a worthwhile experience to see all the advancements happening in such a fast pace. I particularly enjoyed the new stuff in robotics and programmable 3-D manufacturing.
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The musical revue is back for a third time in Minneapolis with more songs and more fun in two acts.
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They use small talk to rest and to amuse. In one bit, Stauffer teaches the audience something he learned from a theater teacher in New York. It is about selling the end of a song by marrying the last three notes with physical gestures.
"It's called the grapefruit method," he said, lifting his hand to demonstrate the movements that so many divas use to close down big numbers. "First you pick the grapefruit, then you squeeze out the juice, then you throw away the rind."
And that's not all we take away from this fun show.
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Great blog, Love your great styles ! very cute !
I think rubber adds another level of fashion on many levels. Very chic.
gorgeous look love the boots and the umbrella
jeimy -
Ah sneaky sister! Mine does that as well haha. Well, she may have gotten your old ones, but these ones are definitely a good trade-off (: That's so cool that they are rubber but look like leather!
Those boots look stunning!
http://fashionyouwear.blogspot.com/ -
OMG you`re soooo cute!!!! I love your style, the way you combine the colors!! amazing!! I was looking all your outfits in your older posts.. (sorry my english please!!)
Milena -
I am wondering if you could tell me what nail polish you are wearing, I think it's fabulous.
Looking great like always Sun, I guess it was a win win situation with your sister, but it was really worth the purchase because this boots are beautiful.
The Owl Girl -
I love how your hair always looks like. can you share some ideas how you take care of the beautiful waves??
I LOVE LOVE LOVE this look so much I reblogged it!
So jealous of the boots and cape! Adorable -
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CAtita -
I adore the elegant style of the Aigle Ecuyer and stumbled upon your lovely blog while trying to search for more sizing info on this pair of boots. Could you please tell me what is the calf size of the pair that you have? I think our shoe size is about the same as I wear a 37 European size. Many thanks for your attention. <3 Annekei
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- Elaine Pagels, in her Introduction (June 23, 1995) to Thich Nhat Hanh's Living Buddha, Living Christ (1995: Riverhead Books), notes "resonances" between GTh and Buddhist thought. Pagels cites the Prologue and LL. 2, 3, 25, 70, and 108. While predicting that many more resonances are to be found, she observes "comparative study of Buddhism and (early) gnostic Christianity has barely begun" (xxvii).
I present here the resonances noted by Pagels and her very brief comments on paralles to Buddhist thought. In doing so, I would caution that a key distinction between this sort of comparison and traditional textual comparisons is that specific literal parallels are difficult or impossible to identify. This can lead to the conclusion that no dependence can be established.
However the absence of literal parallels, when a thematic parallel seems evident, can also indicate the theme was simply passed orally between cultures of widely differing languages. Or it can indicate intent to disguise or cloak the source (for example, the apparent complete ignorance of the Alexandrian Jesus community in Acts). Or it could mean, as Pagels notes elsewhere, that intense familiarity with canonical texts naturally leads one to think that the nature of other texts is less authentic. Literal textual parallel may not characterize transmission of sayings from Buddhism to Thomas, if that transmission occurred. The close textual parallels among the Synoptics, and their freer parallels in Thomas, may suggest that textual dependence requires some degree of textual literality in parallel. But the Synoptics represent later highly-stylized Roman developments of tradition that cannot reasonably be expected to identify Buddhist sources of the earliest Jesus sayings, if they exist.
Obvously there is a higher risk of proposing dependence based on a thematic parallel when in fact no such dependence exists. Common religious themes may arise independently from similar new social conditions. This is, I think, the gist of the "axial age" - the historical rise of major religious movements in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE - given new life recently by Karen Armstrong.
I think that risk must be accepted for exploration of the origins of Jesus wisdom sayings. Literal textual analysis has shown with outstanding clarity many general processes of emerging diversity during the very active phase of Christian literary development, 70-140 CE. Yet the origins of Thomas and Q sayings, c.50 CE for those who support the "early camp" of original Thomas composition, remain bafflingly obscure. Another way to describe a disciplined but somewhat looser approach, might be "new skins for new wine."
Finally, it can be argued that Pagels' "resonances" are not tangible relationships that can be identified with much precision. I think that is probably true. But it is also very true that both Thomas and Buddhism reject that sort of literal approach to understanding. Jesus in Thomas advises each to "bring forth what is within you" (L.70) and to reject leaders in order to know oneself (L.3). Likewise Buddha advised: "Be an island unto yourself. Take refuge in yourself and not in anything else." (Living Buddha, Living Christ, p. 121).
Okay, on to the sayings and Pagels' brief comments. The translation here is Lambdin-Layton. Important deviations in Pagels' translation are marked "Pagels tr."
P) These are the secret sayings which the living Jesus spoke and which Didymos Judas Thomas wrote down.
PAGELS: "twin" = "fellow child of God" (xxiv).
3) Jesus said, "If those who lead you say, 'See, the Kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons [Pagels tr. "children"] of the living Father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty.
PAGELS: "resonates with the Buddhist tradition" (xxiii).
2) Jesus said, "Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds. When he finds, he will become troubled. When he becomes
troubled, he will be astonished, and he will rule over the All [Pagels tr. "shall come to transcend all things."].
PAGELS: "a path of solitary searching to find understanding" (xxv).
70) If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.
PAGELS: "What is at stake is one's deepest well-being" (xxvi).
25) Love your brother like your soul, guard him like the pupil [Pagels tr. "apple"]of your eye.
PAGELS: "loving compassion for others" (xxvi).
108) He who will drink from my mouth will become like Me. I myself shall become he [Pagels tr. "will become as I am; and I will become that person"], and the things that are hidden will become revealed to him [Pagels tr. "and the mysteries will be revealed to him"].
PAGELS: supports "twin" = "fellow child of God" (xxiv).
Regards, Paul - Hi Paul,
Thanks for introducing this topic to the list.
Elaine Pagels remarks in her introduction to Thich Nhat Hans book are,
if anything, understated. Not only has the comparative study of Buddhism
and early Christianity barely begun I think it may be more accurate to
say that it has not begun **at all** in any systematic fashion (Thich Nhat
Hans book notwithstanding).
The cautions you offer about the perils of positing parallels between
early Christian literatures in general and GTh in particular (either
literal or thematic ones) are good advice. But as a kind of prolegomena to
comparative studies it might be helpful to sketch out, in broad fashion,
why such an investigation has could have merit in the first place.
What is the evidence for cultural contacts between the ancient
Mediterranean basin and societies where Buddhism was predominant?
Is there hard archaeological evidence for the presence of Buddhist
communities in the basin or its hinterlands?
Do we know enough about Buddhism as it existed around the turn of the
Common Era to be able to identify traces of its influence in Mediterranean
culture and society?
If we wish to identify cross cultural influences using literary artifacts
as primary sources, which Buddhist literature was extant during the period
in question?
These are only a few of the core issues that come to mind (Im sure there
are others) that deserve to be examined before looking for an answer to
the BIG question: Does GTh exhibit arguably Buddhist influences?
Rick Hubbard - Hi Rick,
Thank you for your incisive comments. I am still looking up what is known about Buddhist scriptures before the common era, but the short answer seems to be that the earliest parts of the Mahayana "Perfection of Wisdom" were written down c.200 BCE, and that the complete early Pali canon (the "Three Baskets") were written down in the middle of the first century BCE.
The strongest evidence for Buddhist influence in regions relevant to Thomas (Syria, Alexandria) before the common era may be two Rock Edicts of Asoka (304 BCE 232 BCE), the Indian king and Buddhist who carried on active Buddhist missionary work as far west as Syria, at least according to Rock Edict 13, written in Greek:
"So, what is conquest through Dharma is now considered to be the best conquest by the Beloved of the Gods. And such a conquest has been achieved by the Beloved of the Gods not only here in his own dominions, but also in the territories bordering on his dominions, as faraway as at a distance of six hundred yojanas, where the Yavana king named Antiyoka is ruling and where beyond the kingdom of the said Antiyoka, four other kings named Turamaya, Antikini, Maka and Alikasundara are also ruling, and towards the south where the Cholas and Pandyans are living, as far as Tamraparni. Likewise here in the dominions of His Majesty, the Beloved of the Gods in the countries of the Yavanas and Kambojas of the Nabhakas and Nabhapanktis of the Bhoja-paitryanikas and of the Andhras and Paulindas everywhere people are conforming to the instruction in Dharma imparted by the Beloved of the Gods."
(1994) A. SeneviratnaKing, Asoka and Buddhism: Historical and Literary Studies, p.73
The author provides these equivalents for names of known rulers:
"Antiyoka (also mentioned in RE II): Antiochus II Theos of the Seleucid dynasty in Syria and West Asia (i.e. the immediate western neighbour of Asoka's empire): 261 246 B.C.
Turamaya (Tulamaya): Ptolemy II Philadelphus in Egypt: 285 247 B.C.
Antikini (Antekina): Antigonus Gonatas in Macedonia: 277 239 B.C.
Maka (Maga): Magas of Cyrene in North Africa: 282 258 B.C.
Alikasundara: Alexander of Epirus: 272 255 B.C."
The Kandahar Rock Edict is written in Greek and Aramaic, both of which were spoken in that region of Afghanistan in the third century BCE. There is an image of this rock edict at:
I think that establishes with a decent probability the transmission of some Buddhist teachings ("conquest through Dharma") to Syria and Alexandria during the middle of the third century BCE. The writing of a Rock Edict in both Greek and Aramaic seems especially useful, too, for further inquiry.
Regards, Paul