Enter the Lotus Sutra, considered one of the most significant Buddhist scriptures in East Asia.

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The Bhagavad Gita and yoga sutra texts on his bedside table are believably well-worn.

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Like his passage on how listening to water running through a canyon reminds him of the erotic sounds in the Kama Sutra.

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But people don't burn themselves to death "simply because the Lotus Sutra says to do it, " emphasized UC Berkeley's Sharf.

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It may be the land of the Kama Sutra, the land whose temples depict a licentiousness seldom shown in public elsewhere.

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PT, a party that claimed to hold a copyright on clean government, is mixed up in a veritable Kama Sutra of corruption.

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The proposal also envisions large capsules in which to practice Kama Sutra.

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And it was this part of the Lotus Sutra that Vietnamese monks and nuns pointed to when it came to self-immolation in the 1960s.

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Even through self-immolations took place in medieval China and 20th-century Vietnam, even though the Lotus Sutra praises "burning for Buddha" as the supreme self-sacrifice, Buddhists are very reluctant to condone violence.

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"I'd been reading a book about Brunel so I asked British Lion, who backed Kama Sutra, if I could have some money to make a half-hour cartoon about a Victorian engineer, " he told the Guardian in 2001.

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