Word: buddha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their captors, the boys help them capture a whole trainload of military equipment. Delighted, General Wu sends the boys home by the only safe route - a 3,000-mile detour through the Gobi Desert. On their tremendous journey they have adventures enough to impress Tom Sawyer: a Living Buddha trusts them with a secret message, a great bandit prince bows down to do them reverence, a buried treasure opens to their shovels in a ruined city. The story never rips & snorts; it moves with the pace of a desert caravan. But in its freshness and steady excitement it has some...
...Bhutan, like Tibet, was ruled jointly by a high lama, the Dharma Raja, who was believed to be the reincarnation of Buddha himself, and a temporal leader, the Deb Raja. Finding a new reincarnation of Buddha when the old one died was always a trouble. It involved waiting several years and then finding a baby who would proclaim his identity by recognizing certain suitable symbols. By 1907 Bhutan's lamas, grown fat and indolent with centuries of rule, got too lazy to hunt for a new Raja. The government was taken over by a local governor, the Tongsa Penlop...
...control . . . But let us try to reserve a small corner somewhere on the surface of the earth where we Buddhists can form a nucleus for world survival . . . My idea is that the corner is one's individual self. For when this self is disciplined in the spirit of Buddha, free from all forms of hate and revenge, it naturally and inevitably expands and grows and by degrees spreads itself to cover the whole earth...
...Green for the Buddha's hair, yellow for his body, red for his blood, white for his teeth, and tan for his clothes...
...Another name for the Buddha...