Stendhal
strangers, fear of 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Struth, Thomas 8.1, 8.2; National
Gallery I, London 8.1
suffering
Talmud 3.1, 3.2, 10.1
Tarkovsky, Andrei
tavolette 8.1, 8.2
taxation
tea ceremony see Zen Buddhism
technological progress 6.1, 6.2
teddy bears
telescopes 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1
Ten Commandments
theft 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Theravada Buddhism
Thomas Becket, St 2.1
Titian 8.1, 8.2; The Flight into Egypt8.3, 8.4
Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina 4.1; The Death of Ivan Ilyich 4.2
Torah 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Torgau: Schloss Hartenfels chapel 9.1, 9.2
Torments of Hell 3.1
Trent, Council of (1563)
tsukimi see Zen Buddhism
United States 4.1, 4.2, 6.1
universities 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 8.1, 10.1
urban life 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 9.1
Utrecht: Cathedral of St Martin 9.1
van Orley, Bernard: The Seven Sorrows
of the Virgin 8.1
Veneziano, Paolo
Venice: Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari
Venus
Vipers, Father Chris 10.1
Wagner, Richard
Wailing Wall 6.1, 6.2
Wall, Jeff
weddings see marriage
welfare benefits 2.1, 2.2
Wesley, John 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Whitman, Walt 3.1, 4.1, 4.2
Winnicott, Donald
Woolf, Virginia 3.1
work: careerism 2.1, 2.2; commuting 2.3, 2.4; recruitment 10.1; training manuals 10.2
Yom Kippur see Day of Atonement
Zen architecture 1.1, 9.1
Zen Buddhism 2.1, 4.1; chanoyu(tea ceremony) 4.2, 4.3; tsukimi(ritual) celebrations 10.1, 10.2
Zophar the Naamathite
Zurbarán, Francisco de: The Bound Lamb8.1
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