On 4/27/06, Abhijit Menon-Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It's in Chinese religion and art history - she's looking at a 18th century printing house in Derge that printed a version of the Buddhist cannon; there are murals on the walls possibly created by the monk who founded the monestary there who was also an artist. There's a relationship between these murals and what's included and excluded from that version of the cannon.
We went for a friend's wedding and to see some monasteries. And eat lots of chillis. It's an amazing place; people seemed much saner than they are here in the US (I realize this isn't setting the bar very high :-) ).
At 2006-04-27 23:07:22 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> The image quality is very good; the lack of delay when you take a
> picture makes it much nicer than other digital cameras that I've
> used.
Yeah. In my experience, while there's not much to choose from between
Nikon and Canon SLRs in terms of image quality, the user interface is
consistently superior in the former.
> it had the pictures on it that are related to the core of my wife's
> thesis work
What's her thesis about?
It's in Chinese religion and art history - she's looking at a 18th century printing house in Derge that printed a version of the Buddhist cannon; there are murals on the walls possibly created by the monk who founded the monestary there who was also an artist. There's a relationship between these murals and what's included and excluded from that version of the cannon.
> Note to self: for next trip to Bhutan - bring *lots* of spare media.
I'm thinking about going to Bhutan to look for Blood Pheasants and Satyr
Tragopans.
We went for a friend's wedding and to see some monasteries. And eat lots of chillis. It's an amazing place; people seemed much saner than they are here in the US (I realize this isn't setting the bar very high :-) ).
-- ams
