Word: buddha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...narrator, who becomes Zorba's boss and foil, is a 35-year-old scholar, tired, bookworm-eaten, a 20th century Hamlet. Sensing that he ought to get away from his study for a while, he eases off on his definitive life of Buddha and tries to run a lignite mine. Zorba, the would-be cook, becomes his chief engineer. And through Zorba, the scholar learns to see the world fresh each...
...strip Christ of his divinity and Christianity of its divine mission, but concede that Christianity contains certain "basic" ethical truths. The result: "A Christ who would never have inspired the martyrs ... a Christ who would be quite happy in a pantheon, His image tolerantly rubbing shoulders with those of Buddha and Confucius, Mahomet and perhaps Gandhi...
...meetings, Taylor often sits folded in thought, as silent as Buddha. Then he will burst into speech at machine-gun tempo. He can rage like a Shakespearean actor over an underling's blunder, yet he is also known for his gentle patience with misfits. He is widely regarded as a conservative, an enemy of much modern art, but he will cogently defend its vigor and experimentalism. Though he knows and likes his job as only a professional can, he has been heard to growl: "God, how I hate...
Among bamboos and flowering dates, Buddha's long been fast asleep...
Sariputta and Moggallana were the most honored disciples of the Buddha. Sariputta, dubbed by his master the disciple of "great intelligence," could expound doctrine, the story goes, with the same depth of meaning as the Buddha himself. Moggallana was the disciple of "potency," and Buddhists believe that he could become invisible, control ferocious beasts and transport his body through...