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[elladastinkardiamou]

In Focus: The charmed life of Paddy Leigh Fermor and friends in Greece

Upon entering the British Museum in the tidal wave of visitors intent on Rodin and the art of ancient Greece – the museum’s magnificent summer show – dive out left and head for Room 5, the free exhibition gallery. In this quiet southern tip of the museum building you will find Charmed lives in Greece: Ghika, Craxton, Leigh Fermor, the enchanting story of the friendship of three men and their shared love of Greece; Greek artist Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, and the Englishmen, artist John Craxton and writer Patrick Leigh Fermor.

The exhibition includes drawings and paintings of Greece by Gika and Craxton; book-cover designs by Craxton for Leigh Fermor publications; letters; Leigh Fermor’s typewriter; and photographs by his wife, Joan Raynor.

Leigh Fermor and Craxton both left England in search of sun, colour, and in the case of Leigh Fermor, adventure. The latter was just 18 when, in 1933, he set off on an epic journey by foot covering the length of Europe from Holland to Istanbul where he arrived in 1935. He was to write about the experience in his later travel books, A Time of Gifts (1977), Between the Woods and the Water (1986) and the posthumously-published The Broken Road.

[cristopherworthland]

The romantic home of the celebrated late British travel author and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor and his photographer wife Joan, on the Mani Peninsula in the Peloponnese, will open to the public in 2018 under the stewardship of the wonderful @thebenakimuseum An intimate seating area near the fireplace, based on one in the Palace of Cantacuzino in Romania, features two large Japanese 17th-century paintings of goshawks jessed in blue and crimson, a semi-geometric roofscape and a design of plants by Greek artist Ghika and, top right, "Jamaican Foliage" by Lucian Freud. Photo by Derry Moore for Architectural Digest, November 1986. Thank you @miguelfloresvianna for sharing this remarkable story of a life well lived. You can read more about Fermor and his home @greece_is online #patrickleighfermor #mani #britishauthor #travelwriter #writershomes #joanfermor #greekhouse #mediterraneanstyle #charmedlivesingreece #hautebohemian #relaxedelegance #understated #neutralrooms #lucienfreud #japaneseart #ghika

[elladastinkardiamou]

Despite their woes, it’s the world that’s in debt to Greece

“My life was turned around in the British Museum in the Japanese room when – aged 18 – I had to step over an art student. Sprawled out on the floor immodestly drawing and painting. We became friends and it was she who, looking at my proletarian sketchbook, insisted that I go to Chelsea School of Art drawing classes, where I was drawn into being chosen for the diploma course.

Later when I became a Marxist Engelist Leninist Trotskyist I marvelled at the big round library, then in an outdoor square in the middle of the museum, now indoors, in which Marx wrote the book that rocked the world solidly; Das Kapital.

But when I joined the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of tourists and visitors last week I was heading for an exhibition about three artists: one, the writer Paddy Leigh Fermor, and two painters Ghika and Craxton.

Life’s short so there is no mention of Greece’s great contribution to our world history, philosophy, theatre, poetry, pottery, architecture! Our modern world is made in its eternal and timeless image

I was asked after the exhibition by a Greek student doing some survey what I thought of the exhibition and I was speechless. Ghika is a great Greek painter who inspired the younger English man John Craxton to produce in Greece phenomenal paintings. And both united by their devotion and love of the writer Paddy Leigh Fermor who, having had a “good war” in Greece devoted, with his wife Joan, his lifetime to the Peloponnese village and peninsula he built a house on.

Ghika and Craxton are such great painters and Paddy such a brilliant writer, with his writing interspersed throughout the exhibition that you can see the art and the creative friendship grow before your eyes. It made me want to abandon my neglect of this brilliant historical and beautiful country. I had been there once, to Athens a few years back for a social enterprise conference. I wanted to go there immediately and ignore the heat, not good in that, and just drink in its great beauty.”

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[english-tibetan-dictionary]

ghika

dge 'dun chen po pa - great community school, mah sa ghika [IW]

dge 'dun chen po pa - great community school; great community school, [mahasamghika] [RY]

dge 'dun pal chen pa - mah samghika 1 of four main schools of vinaya in India [IW]

dge 'dun pha la chen pa - [Mahasamghika] one of the four main schools of Vinaya in India [RY]

dge 'dun phal chen pa - clergy of the mahasanghika school [JV]

dge 'dun phal chen pa - one of {sde pa bco brgyad}; one of {rtsa ba'i sde pa bzhi}; [one of 4 major Vinaya schools]. Mahasamghika [RY]

dge 'dun phal chen pa lnga - five Mahasamghika schools [RY]

dge 'dun phal chen pa'i sde - Mahasamghika school [RY]

dge 'dun phal bo che'i sde pa bzhi - the four Mahasamghika schools [RY]

'jig rten 'das par smra ba'i sde - exponents of world- transcending [among the five schools of mahasanghikas in the 18 schools of shravaka philosophers] [IW]

sde pa bco brgyud - Eighteen Sects. These are. the Aryasarvasti vadins who subdivided into the Kas'yapiyas, Mahishasakas, Dharma guptas, Bahushrutiyas, Tamrasatiyas, Vibhajyavadins, and Mula sarvastivadins, the Aryasammitiya who subdivided into the Kauru kullikas, Avantakas and Vatsiputriyas, the Aryamahasamghikas who subdivided into the Purvashailas, Uttarashailas, Haimavatas, Lokottaravadins, and Prajnaptivadins, and the Aryasthavira sect who subdivided into the Mahaviharavadins, Jetavaniyas and Abhayagiri vadins. See Blue Annals, pp. 27-33 [RY]

gnas brtan pa - Sthavira- School of the Elders, one of the earliest Buddhist schools, usually contrasted to the Mahasamghika [RY]

phal chen - 1) Avatamsaka Sutra; 2) [nyan thos sde bzhi'i gras phal chen sde pa] mahasamghika[s] [IW]

phal chen - 1) Avatamsaka Sutra; 2) * mahasamghika[s] [IW]

phal chen sde pa - the majority group, mahasamghika[s] [IW]

phal chen sde pa lnga - mahasamghika[s] [IW]

phal chen sde pa lnga - mahasamghika[s] [nyan thos sde pa bco brgyad kyi nang gses shig ste, 1 shar two nub ri la gnas pa dang, three gangs rir gnas pa, four 'jig rten 'das par smra ba, five btags par smra ba [IW]

phal chen pa - mahasanghikas [JV]

phal chen pa - mahasamghika[s] [IW]

phal chen pa - mahasamghika[s] [one of the {rtsa pa'i sde bzhi} of sravakayana, syn {dge bdun} a main shravka school (has 8 subsects {nyan thos kyi theg pa} [IW]

phal chen pa - Mahasamghika, the Mahasanghikas, one of the {rtsa pa'i sde bzhi} of Sravakayana. Syn {dge bdun} a main Shravaka school [has eight subsects se Mipham Rinpoche's {grub mtha' bsdus pa} [one of the {rtsa ba'i sde bzhi} of shravaka yana / {nyan thos kyi theg pa} Syn {dge 'dun}-]. It is divided into eight subschools; Def. by Jamg?n Kongtr?l: {phal chen pa zhes pa ni gyes pa'i tshe dge 'dun phal che ba phyogs gcig tu gnas pas yin la/ sde pa de ni phra krI ta rang bzhin gyi skad/ mkhan po bram ze'i rigs sbyangs yon la gnas pa'i mchog 'od srung/ snam phran bdun nas nyer gsum man la rtags dpal be'u/ ming ye shes dang sbas pa'i mtha' can/ grub mtha' bdag phung tha dad pa dang/ bden pa cig car mthong ba dang/ chos mchog las kyang nyams srid pa dang/ dbang pos yul mi 'dzin pa sogs su 'dod do} [RY]

phal chen pa'i sde - mahasamghika school [IW]

phal mo che - 1) mostly; 2) mahasamghikas; 3) most/ the majority of the people [IW]

rtsa ba'i sde pa bzhi - {thams cad yod par smra ba / dge 'dun phal chen pa / gnas brtan pa / mang pod bkur ba bzhi} Four Basic Schools. Mahasanghikas, Sthaviras, Sammitiyas, and Mulasarvastivadins; of Hinayana: {thams cad yod par smra/ /phal chen/ gnas brtan/ mang pos bkur ba bzhi} [RY]

rtsa ba'i sde pa bzhi - four basic schools [mah sanghikas, sthaviras, sammiti^yas, and mu^lasarw stiv dins- thams cad yod par smra ba/ dge 'dun phal chen pa/ gnas brtan pa/ mang pod bkur ba bzhi-. nyan thos kyi rtsa ba'i sde pa ste, 'od srungs nas brgyud pa phal chen sde pa dang, sgra gcan 'dzin nas brgyud pa gzhi thams cad yod par smra ba'i sde pa, ka ty' ya na nas brgyud pa gnas brtan pa'i sde pa, nye bar 'khor nas brgyud pa mang bkur ba'i sde pa bcas bzhi] [IW]

gzhi chen po - the vinaya Pitaka of the lokottaravidis, a maha sanghika sub-school [IW]

gzhi chen po - n. of the Vinaya Pitaka of the Lokottaravidis, a Maha Sanghika sub-school [RY]

[hellas-inhabitants]

Nikos Hadjikyriakos - Ghika Gallery, Kriezotou Str., Athens Greece. Πινακοθήκη Νίκου Χατζηκυριάκου - Γκίκα, στην οδό Κριεζώτου, Αθήνα.