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...instance, Stanislas Poray's still life, "Rhythm," represents Buddha sitting beside an Oriental vase. It is one of the first works to introduce Eastern influences into American art. Two of Georgia O'Keefe's "Squash Blossoms" are also on view, but they lack the power of some of her larger, better-known paintings. Still, the last group of paintings is no disappointment. Works such as Charles Sheeler's oil on board "Oranges," a vibrant still-life of the fruit on a table, attest to the growing sophistication yet enduring honesty of the American art of that period...
Some 15 miles away, near the intersection of Coldwater Canyon and Roscoe boulevards, in the San Fernando Valley working-class section of North Hollywood, Buddhist monks pray in a Thai temple pungent with incense and dominated by a 10-ft. statue of Buddha. On weekends Thai families turn the temple's parking lot into a festival straight out of Bangkok...
...16th century Chinese comic novel Journey to the West, a motley group of pilgrims, at the end of a magical, sometimes terrifying quest, arrive at the Western Paradise of Buddha to receive sacred books imparting enlightenment. To their chagrin, they discover that in order to secure their prize, they must grease the palms of Buddha's disciples. Buddha himself is rather condescending. Paradise has turned out to be less than perfect and more than a little disconcerting. What was it they set out to find, and why is it yet to be found? Even as their numbers and their influence...
Prophet claims to serve as the voice (or channel, as New Agers say) for the Ascended Masters, a group of heavenly notables who include Jesus and Buddha, as well as CUT founder Mark L. Prophet, her husband, who died in 1973. Many of the faithful have sold all their possessions, quit their jobs and emptied their savings accounts to pay fees of up to $10,000 for space in the shelters. But this is not the first time that Prophet has prophesied Armageddon; in 1987 she predicted that California would fall into the sea. That may be one reason...
Meanwhile back at the ranch, the usual operations have been neglected while Prophet and her followers gear up for surviving the Armageddon she predicted in 1987, when she received a message from what she calls her "ascended masters." This exalted band includes Jesus, Buddha and Guru Ma's former husband the late Mark L. Prophet, who three decades ago founded the religion on an amalgam of Christianity and Eastern faiths...