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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...
...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...
...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...