Word: abbot
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...Sharp lines are also drawn between India's fervent religiosity and China's secularism, and Aiyar searches vainly for traces of spirituality behind China's materialistic façade. A Shaolin abbot who styles himself as a CEO, or a cabbie who, when asked about religion, growls, "I believe only in money," are expressing attitudes incomprehensibly alien to India's devout...
Shugden practitioners deny that they are fundamentalist, purist or violent, and have renewed their complaints in light of an intensifying crackdown by the Dalai Lama. He - or people acting in his perceived interests - has expanded the loyalty demand from abbots to monks and even laypeople as far afield as France. In a nod to the Tibetan Government in Exile's self-definition as a democracy, each monastery has been taking a referendum on Shugden. When the "anti" faction inevitably wins, the monks pledge to renounce Shugden and deny spiritual or material aid to those who hold out. In transcripts that...
...Sharpham College for Buddhist Studies and Contemporary Enquiry, wrote in an email to TIME, although, he adds, "I have yet to see any hard evidence." Wrote Donald Lopez of the University of Michigan, "Buddhist monks who apply for an Identity Certificates must also submit a letter form their abbot. I was told that there may have been cases in which, contrary to the policy of the Government-in-Exile, monks who worship Shugden have not been provided with such a letter...
During a Crimson Key Society tour, a crimson-clad guide delivers this fact: “Harvard President Abbot Lawrence Lowell once said that the Harvard undergraduate should know ‘a little bit of everything, and something well...
...Closing with a wish for peace that elicited repeated applause from the audience, the charismatic vice abbot emphasized compassion in his remarks. He said that he had never before seen such kindness and love between animals and humans as he had witnessed here in the U.S. between doting pet owners and the creatures with whom they share their homes...