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...followed by lengthy feasts-have proved to be particularly taxing for Japan's 1.7 million Buddhist priests. Most Sundays, Tokyo Priest Kotetsu officiates at five or six services. "By the time I go to bed," he says, "I feel physically dead tired although spiritually aroused." Shoko, the Osaka abbot who presided at the services for Hikotaro, has stopped smoking to protect his overworked vocal cords. The work has its secular compensations. Temple offerings range from $100 to $3,000 per service...
Although less religious than other Asians, the Japanese venerate the memory of their dead long and deeply. Thus the vast majority of bereaved would agree with Abbot Shoko in his estimate of the importance of this year's memorials: "I feel as though all of us are coming...
...skin tent near Pago-Punsum, one of the holiest mountains in Tibet. When he appeared, according to legend, pails of water turned to milk and a rainbow spread across the sky. The infant was declared to be the reincarnation of the tenth Trungpa Tulku, a supreme abbot of one of Tibet's strongest Buddhist sects. A royal coronation, attended by 13,000 monks, followed soon after, and the boy was raised to rule nearly a thousand square miles of farm land, grazing fields and fortress-like monasteries...
...gained a potential backer with the appointment of Aloisio Lorscheider, the influential president of the Brazilian hierarchy and fellow specialist in ecumenism. One of the new cardinals might later become papabile himself: England's Basil Hume (TIME, March 1), 53, who has undergone a breathtaking rise from Benedictine abbot to Archbishop of Westminster to cardinal in less than three months' time...
...church watchers and the oddsmakers at Ladbroke's began guessing which of the realm's 18 bishops would replace him. Last week Pope Paul VI provided the answer: none of them. He bypassed the entire hierarchy and appointed instead tall, white-haired Dom George Basil Hume, 52, abbot of the Benedictine monastery at Ampleforth in Yorkshire. Hume is the first monk to become Archbishop of Westminster since England in 1850 permitted the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy...