For if Buddhism is to live in the modern world, it must be treated as a living tradition, not a preformed import.

如果佛教要在现代世界永葆活力，它必须让人将其视为鲜活传统的有机组分，而非古已有之、一成不变的舶来品。

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Artwork created with or from bamboo is still very much part of a living tradition and practiced by cultures throughout the world.

用竹子或根据竹子创造出来的艺术品仍然是活的传统，其文化传播遍及整个世界。

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All in all we have no elements to dismiss the tradition of two conjoined twins being born in 1100, living to be thirty-four years of age and starting a long-lasting charity.

总之，我们都没有理由忽视这个传说：1100年一对连体婴出生在比登登，她们活了34年，并创始了一项经久不衰的慈善活动。

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The eldest of 12 children, he was born in a sod hut near Repulse Bay and spent his early years living in the nomadic tradition of the Inuit.

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It doesn't always feel like it, but Taiwan has had some luck in its turbulent history, both as a museum and as the fragments of a living tradition.

BBC: Here be dragons

The craft both produces an important component of traditional clothes and is itself testimony to a living cultural tradition.

UNESCO: Culture

That said, for five years now I have kicked off the New Year by taking a plunge in the icy waters of New York's Coney Island, a tradition I was introduced to while living in Dublin, where I joined hundreds of locals who make an annual Christmas leap from a rock at Sandycove and baptize themselves in the freezing Irish Sea.

BBC: This is Snow & Skiing week