Word: buddhism
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...Burma, Buddhism and Neutralism...
...centuries since the death of its founder in 483 B.C., Buddhism has had little direct impact on the Christian West. Today, however, a Buddhist boomlet is under way in the U.S. Increasing numbers of intellectuals-both faddists and serious students-are becoming interested in a form of Japanese Buddhism called...
...meditation) is the form of Buddhism that is at the same time most appealing and appalling to the Western mind. It claims to be as practical as a Mack truck; it is certainly as anti-intellectual as a hooky-playing schoolboy, and often as humorous as a well-timed pratfall. But it also insists on the disconcerting necessity of saying yes and no at the same time...
...Dalai Lama's trip was obviously designed by the Reds to promote the notion that Communism and Buddhism stand side by side in their devotion to peace and nonviolence. In India, so far. this line has been fairly successful. At a Buddhist Congress held last month in Nepal, Chinese and Russian speakers virtually enshrined Karl Marx as another reincarnation of the Lord Buddha. But Dr. Bhimrao R. Ambedkar, leader of India's untouchables, who died last week (see MILESTONES), made a notable reply. Said he: "Marx was thought by a large number of Asians, particularly students...
...Jawaharlal Nehru's Cabinet as Minister of Law in 1947, resigned four years later in protest over delay in anti-caste legislation. Two months ago Hindu Ambedkar renounced his caste-perpetuating religion, claimed it stood for "inequality and oppression," led 300,000 followers in a mass conversion to Buddhism...