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Budding Buddhists. Sir John, himself a wealthy planter, always sought his political support chiefly among the middle class. For their votes, his opposition concentrated on the poor, the country villagers, the discontented. Soon the campaign turned into a contest in Buddhism. There are 5,500,000 Buddhists among Ceylon's 8,000,000 population, and each side strove to outdo the other in pledges of devotion to Buddha. Campaign cars careened through Ceylon's palms and rice fields loaded with saffron-robed monks, and each side accused the other of employing fake monks...
...article contains a remark ["the man knows nothing about Buddhism"] allegedly made by Mr. Ben-Gurion on the occasion of the visit to Israel of U Nu, Prime Minister of Burma...
...search for what he calls "universal truth." When he met Einstein, he was interested only in what the great man could tell him about universal truth. When Burma's Prime Minister U Nu visited Israel, he went down to see Ben-Gurion at his desert retreat. They talked Buddhism. Afterward Ben-Gurion snorted: "The man knows nothing about Buddhism...
When other faiths in Japan, chiefly Buddhism and Christianity, objected to compulsory Shinto observances, the government responded by separating private, strictly religious Shinto from "shrine" Shinto, the patriotic ritual required of all Japanese. Some 110,000 shrines got partial state support, and forced contributions supplied the rest of the money needed. Priests were government officials (the Shinto priesthood was sometimes used as a handy niche for overage army officers). In shrine Shinto, the loyal citizen could even hope for his own apotheosis. By 1939, Tokyo's majestic military shrine, Yasukuni, had been dedicated to 10,000 mitama, or glorified...
...Supreme Court put an end last week to a treason case that had been bungled from the beginning: the prosecution of ex-Sergeant John David Provoo, a Californian who took up Buddhism in his youth, lived in a Japanese monastery, later enlisted in the U.S. Army. Captured on Corregidor in 1942, at 25, he served the Japanese as a stool pigeon, according to his fellow prisoners, and brought about the execution of a U.S. captain. But the Army brought no charges after the war, and Provoo re-enlisted; it was 1949 before he was indicted for treason, and 1953 before...