Author Archive for Joanne Yao
One Wheel To Unite Them All
Todd Shaver juggles and Chuck Edwall eats breakfast, with both hands and crams for midterms on his way to class. This doesn’t sound that impressive until you consider that both third-years achieve these feats while propped up off the ground on a single wheel. Indeed, not careening face-first into the pavement seems quite impressive.
There is [...]
UCI Celebrates Buddhism’s Most Holy Festival
A dog trots into a room of mirrors and is startled to see many other dogs looking at him. Startled, the dog growls, but the reflections surrounding him return the gesture. Naturally, the dog runs but is so disconcerted by his own reflections, each more ferocious-looking than the last, that he cannot remember where the [...]
Finding Buddhism Within the Self
Students gathered at the Cross-Cultural Center for ‘Everything You Wanted to Know About Buddhism,’ a panel discussion about Buddhism on Mar. 13 with the Venerable Huei Hsuen from Dharma Voice Zihara in Temple City and Orange County Buddhist Church Reverend Jon Turner, two Buddhists from very different backgrounds.
Ven. Huei Hsuen was born in Monterey Park, [...]
Unconventional Beauty With Butoh
The first ray of light in the theater strikes a single white rope from which a sizable stone floats. There are five pale ovoid rocks swaying in pendulous orbit, the ropes creating a roughly rectangular frame around a pile of white satin.
Then, an infinitesimally minute movement
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Seeing ‘The World’ in 100 Acres
‘See the world without ever leaving Bejing!’
In Beijing’s ‘World Park,’ a tourist might snap pictures of the pyramids, the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben or the Taj Mahal, or pass by the Twin Towers twice before lunch. It could be fun
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