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...junta leader, General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, is himself a Muslim. With many of the killings involving Muslims targeting Buddhists (although plenty of Muslims have been murdered as well), it's not surprising that sentiment in usually tolerant Thailand is turning hostile. "Ten years ago, it would have failed," says Mettanando Bhikkhu, a prominent Buddhist scholar in Bangkok, of the movement to make the religion the country's official faith. "But among these Buddhist nationalists, burning sentiments against other religions are very strong...
...Italian was Rev. Locanatha Bhikkhu, born Salvatore Cioffi 40 years ago, educated in Manhattan, now resident in Benchamabopitr Monastery near Bangkok. Next June, Buddhist Bhikkhu and 1,000 apostles will set out from India, proceed to Rome and the U. S. on foot save when waters are to be crossed. Begging as they go, the Buddhists expect to take two years in reaching Rome. Their twelve leaders will be called "Lions" because they think they will need lion hearts in such troublous spots as Mecca and Jerusalem. They will preach vegetarianism. "Westerners," said Bhikkhu, "make graveyards of themselves on account...
...money, dressed in a black satin robe and accompanied by ten male and female Buddhists, Chao Kung said: "I want to be friends with the British and the world in general." He announced he would cross the continent, deliver some lectures, proceed to Germany. He explained that (like Locanatha Bhikkhu) he is a vegetarian. "It is not that we believe in unnecessarily castigating the body, but we believe the mind works better if the body is fed less. Buddhism demands precise, profound and correct thinking...
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