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...Jade Emperor appeals for help to the Buddha, who sends 18 demons to put an end to all the monkeyshines. The Monkey King (Li Yuanchun) meets them all and, in pantomime scenes worthy of Chaplin and Keaton, sends them tumbling. He takes one demon's weapon and twirls it on one finger, like a gyroscope; he grabs another one and flicks it away with his heel. No one in heaven or earth can touch this hilarious spirit of riot and disorder, and peace comes only when he finds his way home to the Flower-Fruit Mountain. Equally funny...
...U.S.S.R. belong to more than 100 ethnic groups and claim descent from Varangians, Turks, Mongols and countless Eurasian tribes. Their government preaches to them, in Russian, about the supreme wisdom of a 19th century German atheist. They, however, speak in more than 100 tongues and worship Jehovah, God, Buddha, Allah, or the animist spirits of nomadic hunters in the far north...
...Masters or the Spiritual Hierarchy, are the highly evolved souls who guide Earth's destiny, or so the theory goes. From time to time they enter the world as the great prophets and religious teachers, and sometime in the future one of these souls will return as Maitreya, the Buddha of salvation, sometimes equated with Jesus' second coming...
Mata explains that she is in constant telepathic communication with the Masters. "But you have to be careful when someone says they are psychically attuned to messages because they can still get things wrong. One woman said Buddha and Jesus were the same person. Well, I happen to know they weren't. Krishna and Jesus were the same, but Buddha was another great soul...
...offshoot of a 13th century Japanese Buddhist sect, pursue enlightenment by frequent chanting of Nam Myoho Renge Kyo. In Allston, Members of the Cambridge Zen Center (a perfect koan: why is the Cambridge Center in Allston?) meet for chanting of the Heart Sutra, talks on the way of Buddha, and "just sitting." The Bahais, a group formed in Persia and brought to the U.S. in 1900, and the Sufis, who come out of the mystical Islamic tradition, try in their own ways to seek "the universal principles" behind all religions and bring on the "New Era" of world spirituality. Several...