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The Buddha-Bar is a bar, restaurant, and hotel franchise created by French-Romanian restaurateur Raymond Vișan, with its original location having opened in Paris, France in 1996. [1] The Buddha Bar "soon became a reference among foreign yuppies and wealthy tourists visiting the city", [ 1 ] and "has spawned numerous imitators", [ 2 ] becoming ...
Similarly to Café del Mar, Buddha Bar also released CD compilations featuring "lounge", "world" music, a successful enterprise that suggests the striking inequalities associated with the commodification of Third-World art: whereas cassette tapes of Pakistani singer Nusrat Ali Khan are sold in India for about US$1, the same songs remixed within ...
Standing Buddha from Gandhara, 1st–2nd century CE (Peshawar basin, Pakistan) Buddhism in Pakistan took root some 2,300 years ago under the Mauryan king Ashoka who sent missionaries to the Kashmira-Gandhara region of North West Pakistan extending into Afghanistan, following the Third Buddhist council in Pataliputra (modern India). [1] [2] [3]
The Seated Buddha from Gandhara is an early surviving statue of the Buddha discovered at the site of Jamal Garhi in ancient Gandhara in modern-day Pakistan, that dates to the 2nd or 3rd century AD during the Kushan Empire. Statues of the "enlightened one" were not made until the 1st century CE.
Donald Trump continues to threaten tariffs against foreign nations, this time toward a bloc of nine countries if they try to undermine the dollar's global dominance.
The U.S. agreed in a settlement last year to an eight-year ban on Trump's family separation policy. A lead lawyer in the case is prepared in case Trump ignores the ban—or tries to nullify it.
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The Incredibles earned $261.4 million in the United States and Canada and $370.1 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $631.6 million. [3] It was the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2004, behind Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Spider-Man 2. [73] The Incredibles was released with Alfie on