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		<title>Legends of the Dragon</title>
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 		<description>Dear everyone!

Legends of the Dragon is a photography project
profiling the fabulous corners of Asia.

The first book, Dragon's Playground, revealing the most exciting,
pleasurable and indulgent places to go and things to do in the
Asia Pacific region, has already been published and was very well
received. We had many photographers who participated this project.

Here we would like to invite you to join the 2nd book, sharing us
your great photos. We are particularly looking for hi-res photos of the
following topic &amp;amp; location:


FESTIVALS
Nebuta Matsuri - Aomor / Japan
Kandy's Esala Perahera - Sri Lanka
Loy Krathong - Thailand
Onam Festival - Kerela State / India
Bun Festival &amp;amp; Floating Children - Hong Kong
Royal Ploughing Day (May) - Cambodia
Chinese New Year - China / Hong Kong
Dragon Boating - Hong Kong
Qixi (Double Seven Festival) - China
Legends of Holi
Tabut - Indonesia
Boun Bang Fai (Rocket Festival) - Laos
Naadam Festival - Mongolia
Bhairav Kumari Jatra - Nepal
Andong Mask Dance Festival - South Korea
The Mid-Autumn Festival
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ORIGINS MISC
Yin &amp;amp; Yang - China / Hong Kong
Gunpowder - China
Kite Flying - China
Sake - Japan
Noodles - China
Paper Money - China
Zen（禪）
The Compass - China
The Art of Bonsai
Chinese Tea
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ANCIENT CIVILISATIONS
Tabon Cave - Quezon / Phillipines
Plain of Jars - Xieng Khouang / Laos
Mausoleum of the first Qin Emperor (Terracotta Army) - China
The Great Wall - China
Pagodas of Myanmar - Myanmar
Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape - Mongolia
Kakadu National Park - Australia
Longmen Grottoes - Luoyang / China
Sanigran Early Man Site - Central Java, Indonesia
Star Observation Tower - South Korea
Xiongnu - Central Asia
The Tang Dynasty
Indus City of Harappa -Punjab, Pakistan
The Silk Road
Qutb Minar Tower - Delhi, India
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LIVING HISTORY
National Palace Museum - Taipei / Taiwan
Dr Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall - Taiwan
Sagarmartha national park - Nepal
Tripitaka Koreana - South Korea
Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens - Melbourne
Flora Del Mar - Melaka
Himeji Castle - Japan
Shaolin Temple, Song Shan Mountains - Henan Province, China
Meiko / Geisha - Japan
Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome)
Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama - Japan
Rice Terraces of the Phillipine Cordilleras
Mountain Railways of India
Hutongs, China 
The Summer Palace, China
The Architecture of Bhutan
Chinese Opera
Brunei's Water Village

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SACRED SITES
Vientiane - Laos
Miyajima Island - Japan
Borobadur Stupa - Java / Indonesia
Potala Palace - Lhasa / Tibet
Chejo Do Island - Korea
Dau Pagoda - Vietnam
Mihintale Buddha - Sri Lanka
The Temple of Pura Besakih - Mount Agung / Bali
Ellora Temples - Maharashtra / India
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park (Ayers Rock) - Australia
Angkor Wat - Cambodia
Mount Huangshan - China
Temple &amp;amp; Cemetery of Confucious - Qufu, China
Amritsar - India
Khatmandu valley - Nepal
Jongmyo Shrine - South Korea
St Paul's Cathedral - Macau
Historic Mosque City of Bagerhat - Bangladesh
Ruins of the Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur - Bangladesh
Harimandir Sahib, India
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PEOPLE
Zheng He
Vasco Da Gama
Cornelis de Houtman
Mahatma Gandhi
Aryabhata
Buddha
Lao Tzu - Founder of Taoism
Confucious
Brahmagupta
Gengis Khan
Kublai Khan
Marco Polo
Longchenpa
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Myths &amp;amp; Legends
Keong Mass
The Singa - How Singapore was Named
Lung The Chinese Dragon
Hawa Mahal Palace of the Wind
Fu His, First of the three Emperors
Double Happiness
Hungry Ghost
Tanuki Magic Teakettle, Japan
Langkawi
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Yes if you have some, simply send us your photo(s),
If your photos are selected - it will be published
in the Legends of the Dragon.

if you want to take some new photos,
that will be terrific, you are always welcome! =)

300dpi is required the size of book is 305mm H x 230mm W
we would like the photo to fit this full page if not then at least A4 size
would be fine..

just send us we have some space for yours ;)

Photographs that will be selected - credit will be given to the photographer
and we will send you the book (max.3 books) in return.

Ask your friends to join if they are interested too!

Take this exciting opportunity to see your photos
in the Legends of the Dragon!

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AGUR MARIA, GRAZIAZ BETEA, JAUNA DA ZUREKIN, BENEDIKATUA ZARE EMAZTE GUZIEN ARTEAN ETA BENEDIKATUA DA ZURE SABELEKO FRUITUA JESUS.&lt;br /&gt;
SANTA MARIA JAINKOAREN AMA EGIZU OTOIZ GU BEKATOROSENTZAT ORAIN ETA ERRIOTZEKO ORENEAN.&lt;br /&gt;
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We, Euskara, dislike those who kom in our house tell us what to do, interfere with our freedom (askatasuna). This is very impolite. In return we should do the same, not interfere and be discrete. Maybe Laozi was right when he preached wuwei, nonaction: let the hungry ghosts go to each other homes and devour themselves, we can watch them. For to try to stop them might be endless and it might be only trough their mutual disasters or the end of the world or humanity that they will stop. This is the difficult dialecTIK between nonaction and action, a dialectic i dont pretend to have solution for myself. But i think Sokrates, i criticize him, was right to say that the philosopher is not responsible for the decadence IF he is himself virtuous. For instance if bask militants or western officials commit crimes on AnimaLs and humans and go to hell, should the philosopher be responsible for that? I dont think so because it is their freedom that bring them to hades and tartar. They have all the datas to understand and praktice nonviolence for every beings but i kant do Hit for them...&lt;br /&gt;
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I also suggest to Euskara to confess yin the CatholiK Church, meditate Gandhiana absolute nonviolence, purify their body, speech and mind and learn powa, transference of consciousness at moment of death yin case of a major natural disaster. 'i' also remind them, Yin filial Piety, that yin case of frank divorce they are not allowed to communio in the CatholIk Church but are still allowed to go to the Holly Mass.&lt;br /&gt;
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One of my wish for this Christmas is that all armies set their motivation to serve freedom of every beings, including Anima Ls and, i will add for the new basks, the possibility of them, txikaos, having a soul. So i wish each army set an anarkist strukture with less hierarchy and command and more cooperatio, kollektive votes and public displayal with the goal to end all presidency in a Republic of Anarchy where we might discover the secret and magical samaya of Birds and Dionusos.&lt;br /&gt;
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Another Dream i have is to see enforcement of more severe laws and prosekutio against any entities torturing and enslaving Anima Ls. Wasnt Hegel right to say that because we deny the existence of some beings we cannot access the univesality of the concept of Law, far beyond her essence, witch is freedom? Therefore as even moality is not able to change hungry ghosts habits, we have to realize the law in a spirit of pure Anarkism, granting equal rights for Anima L to be free and not suffer. If we liberate every animal we might see a tremendous change in their habit or will it be yin our perceptio? For Marx wasnt right to say yin the 11th Thesis on Feuerbach, that one who enters in a revolutionary state or organisatio where nothing belongs to him (aparigraha) will have his perceptio of Nature tremendously change? If vask militantas and western politiks would do so, they would even maybe see nagas?&lt;br /&gt;
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A quaestio i have is Nato's akt ion Afghanistan. I do not understand it&amp;gt; Why kill so many civilians a bit like in Vietnam? Why support a corrupt governement? Does kapitalism kill? Why Kashmir seemingly has been refused its right of independance while USA massively support Free Tibet? Why radio free asia, supposedly supported by CIA, speaks of the peaceful uprising in Lhasa 2008, while yin my eyeas it was an insultto Mahatma Gandhi? My solutions being yin anarchy, yin filial piety of Mahatma Gandhi, such as abolishing money in the world, kondemning Israel and Russian officials responsible for violence in Tchetchenya and Indian army and officials responsible for violatio of human rights and right of independance do not fit in the aktual scheme...&lt;br /&gt;
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Christmas is a time for forgiving and reconciliatio. Jesus taught to love your enemies, Buddhism before said that the Arahant (chin; luohan, tib; tulku) has no enenemy, though some entities might try to harm her. We must develop this heart of kindness, understanding with Yin, gentleness, respecting other beliefs, keeping the distances, healing, feeding the Dao with good energy so it can give birth. We must create dialogues from every side and please, euskara people, u might also consider you are in a kind of sect with its narowness, prejudices, negations, contradictio. I ask Euskal Herya militants to forgive whatthey consider their enemies, not respond to their provocations, see the possible oneness of them and U yin the creator Brhama. I ask western officials to forgive Bask militants and stop their provocations and tortures, to respect Ma Themis by NOT condemning poor militants while influential and rich people, businessmen and politicians are set free. For this way of inequity, yin the mathematics, of Chaos, might lead them to states they cannot imagine in the future, such as the butterfly wings kreating disasters a thousand miles away. In the case of Aurore Martin, if is she is responsible of homicide i advice her to confess and surrender to justice, yin witch kase i might defend her. If she is not responsible of homicide, i warn european state official not to insult Themis and to prosekute all responsible of state terrorism, for instance yinda USA or Israel or Kashmir, all those responsible of Anima L torture, slavery, all responsible of torture and violatio of human rights on Bask militants. Same goes for basks militants, do no trust ur ideas, ur beliefs, ur ideologies, ur little religious practices out of Catholic Church, for killing a Human or indulging in the disrepect of Anima L, might bring you to a Kaos u kant imagine...&lt;br /&gt;
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So, u kabrones and u bastards, u d better stop this stupid play of fools... Remember what is Kaos? do u know what is Death? Do u know the future of Earth? Do u know how many Anima Ls are tortured today? Do you know why dinosaurs were destroyed?&lt;br /&gt;
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In his commentary on Bagavad Gita, a book some punks criticize for preaching war, he explains that serving God is to make a continuous sacrifice of own's life to Hanuman by kreating karma, not being attached to the fruit of action, having no belonging (aparigraha, a practice quite far from kapitalism, witch i kall to end by a UN vote abolishing money). Sacrificing own life to God yinda form of Hanuman is the contrary of these mad hindus who made human and bloody Anima Ls sacrifice to Kali. We have to relentlessly teach them not 2 and see how they freely behave, no?&lt;br /&gt;
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Swaraj is a kind of Individualist Anarchism.[5] It warrants a stateless society as according to Gandhi the overall impact of the state on the people is harmful. He called the state a &amp;quot;soulless machine&amp;quot; which, ultimately, does the greatest harm to mankind.[6] The raison d'etre of the state is that it is an instrument of serving the people. But Gandhi feared that in the name of moulding the state into a suitable instrument of serving people, the state would abrogate the rights of the citizens and arrogate to itself the role of grand protector and demand abject acquiescence from them. This would create a paradoxical situation where the citizens would be alienated from the state and at the same time enslaved to it which according to Gandhi was demoralising and dangerous. If Gandhi's close acquaintance with the working of the state apparatus in South Africa and in India strengthened his suspicion of a centralized, monolithic state, his intimate association with the Congress and its leaders confirmed his fears about the corrupting influence of political power and his skepticism about the efficacy of the party systems of power politics (due to which he resigned from the Congress on more than one occasion only to be persuaded back each time) and his study of the British parliamentary systems convinced him that representative democracy was incapable of meting out justice to people.[7] So he thought it necessary to evolve a mechanism to achieve the twin objectives of empowering the people and 'empowering' the state. It was for this that he developed the two pronged strategy of resistance (to the state) and reconstruction (through voluntary and participatory social action).&lt;br /&gt;
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Although the word Swaraj means self-rule, Gandhi gave it the content of an integral revolution that encompasses all spheres of life. &amp;quot;At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment, ceaseless self-purification and growing self-reliance&amp;quot;.[8] Politically swaraj is self-government and not good government (for Gandhi, good government is no substitute for self government) and it means a continuous effort to be independent of government control, whether it is foreign government or whether it is national. In other words, it is sovereignty of the people based on pure moral authority. Economically, Swaraj means full economic freedom for the toiling millions. And in its fullest sense, Swaraj is much more than freedom from all restraints, it is self-rule, self-restraint and could be equated with moksha or salvation.[9]&lt;br /&gt;
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Adopting Swaraj means implementing a system whereby the state machinery is virtually nil, and the real power directly resides in the hands of people. Gandhi said, &amp;quot;Power resides in the people, they can use it at any time.&amp;quot;[10] This philosophy rests inside an individual who has to learn to be master of his own self and spreads upwards to the level of his community which must be dependent only on itself. Gandhi said, &amp;quot;In such a state (where swaraj is achieved) everyone is his own ruler. He rules himself in such a manner that he is never a hindrance to his neighbour&amp;quot;;[11] and also &amp;quot;It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves.&amp;quot;[12]&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;Independence begins at the bottom... A society must be built in which every village has to be self sustained and capable of managing its own affairs... It will be trained and prepared to perish in the attempt to defend itself against any onslaught from without... This does not exclude dependence on and willing help from neighbours or from the world. It will be a free and voluntary play of mutual forces... In this structure composed of innumerable villages, there will be ever widening, never ascending circles. Growth will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom. But it will be an oceanic circle whose center will be the individual. Therefore the outermost circumference will not wield power to crush the inner circle but will give strength to all within and derive its own strength from it.&amp;quot;[13]&lt;br /&gt;
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I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen. &lt;br /&gt;
Young India (13 June 1929); also in All Men Are Brothers : Autobiographical Reflections (2005) edited by Krishna Kripalani, p. 163&lt;br /&gt;
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An armed conflict between nations horrifies us. But the economic war is no better than an armed conflict. This is like a surgical operation. An economic war is prolonged torture. And its ravages are no less terrible than those depicted in the literature on war properly so called. We think nothing of the other because we are used to its deadly effects. ...&lt;br /&gt;
The movement against war is sound. I pray for its success. But I cannot help the gnawing fear that the movement will fail if it does not touch the root of all evil — man's greed. &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Non-Violence — The Greatest Force&amp;quot; in The World Tomorrow (5 October 1926)&lt;br /&gt;
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Serve Jesus nonviolence for every beings such as Anima Ls, forgiving and reconciliatio if you want to be saved,&lt;br /&gt;
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May all beings be free, without suffering, without dogmatism and in absolute non violence for every beings such as animals, humans, ghosts, hungry ghosts (petas), war beings (jealous beings) dogmatic beings, attached 2 senses/body/sensual /pleasure and pain/emotional joy and suffering beings, hell beingss ,not seeing mystics beings, not looking 4 eternity but impermanence beings, taking risks beings, not wanting to know beings, not loving themselves beings, not deeply inquiring the validity or not of budist emptiness of independant existence and dionysiac socratic theories of essence/ideas, not understanding self beings &lt;br /&gt;
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			<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/people/24728718@N05/&quot;&gt;Rossus&lt;/a&gt; posted a reply:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;i like chocolate milk&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;Chinese New Year in NYC and In Philadelphia is kind of a big deal...  Would photos of such celebrations be appropriate here...?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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			<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/people/girlad/&quot;&gt;: )&lt;/a&gt; posted a reply:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;sorry i just realized there might be some people still not received their book(s) last year????? did you guys talk to the publisher??&lt;br /&gt;
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I'm sorry since this process is not done by us so it's kinda hard to control...&lt;br /&gt;
somehow i believe PPP have sent out the books to everyone...but there could be problem during the delivery or mailing process...&lt;br /&gt;
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just let me know if there is still anyone miss their copies, thanks!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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			<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/people/starts/&quot;&gt;sanjay_srm2007&lt;/a&gt; posted a new topic:&lt;/p&gt;

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			<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:23:37 -0700</pubDate>
						<author flickr:profile="http://www.flickr.com/people/starts/">nobody@flickr.com (sanjay_srm2007)</author>
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&lt;p&gt;Ooo..yeah!!!!&lt;br /&gt;
Finally, we are having a new project!&lt;br /&gt;
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Please go:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/groups/treasures_of_the_dragon/&quot;&gt;www.flickr.com/groups/treasures_of_the_dragon/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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i'll send the invitation to you all later but if you are interested you can also join the group first!!!&lt;br /&gt;
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friendly : )&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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			<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/people/reid_sommerville/&quot;&gt;Reid_Sommerville&lt;/a&gt; posted a reply:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I never recieved mine either&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;Friendly, I never received my copy of the book.  What information do you need from me to get one delivered?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:10:44 -0700</pubDate>
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			<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/people/girlad/&quot;&gt;: )&lt;/a&gt; posted a reply:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Hi Audiofan!&lt;br /&gt;
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glad to hear that you finally got your book!&lt;br /&gt;
i'm very sorry for the past few months that you were waiting!&lt;br /&gt;
we apologize for causing any inconvenience!&lt;br /&gt;
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thanks for all your patient!&lt;br /&gt;
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friendly : )&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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			<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/people/roamover/&quot;&gt;Audiofan&lt;/a&gt; posted a reply:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Finally, the books come to my hand!!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;
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There are some words on the top &amp;quot;address unknown, 12/20&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Gee~~~~I should got them several month ago.&lt;br /&gt;
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It's really ridiculous!&lt;br /&gt;
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Anyway, I'm glad to have them after all this.&lt;br /&gt;
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The book is spectacularly. Love it.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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