Word: buddhism
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...years a number of mystical characters who arrived via Jelep-la pass from Tibet, and another bunch who would give their last rupee to travel the other way. Foreign cultists, scholars, artists, adventurers and missionaries plod Kalimpong's streets, panting to explore Tibet and its particular brand of Buddhism, but lacking permission to get in. Last week, as they have since the Chinese Reds invaded Tibet in October, Kalimpongians waited breathlessly, along with rumormongering newsmen (TIME, Nov. 20), to welcome the Dalai Lama should he flee from Lhasa into their midst, as his predecessor did in 1910. The town...
Fifty million potential conversions is something to cause excitement in any religious group. Urgent overtures have been made to Ambedkar by Sikhs, Buddhists and Christian missionaries. For a time he flirted seriously with the Sikhs, but more recently he has turned toward Buddhism...
...untouchables "cannot be discovered through political "platforms. After 35 years of hard political life, often having had to cross swords with high-ranking Hindu leaders, and exploring practically every religion in the world, I have come to the inevitable conclusion that our salvation is to be found only in Buddhism...
...want a doctrine or institution which does not deny you equality, economic emancipation, etc., there is no better platform than Buddhism and pursuance of the enlightened path of the Buddha...
India waited to see how many untouchables would follow Leader Bhimrao into the Buddhist fold. Best-informed guessers predicted, a considerable boom for Buddhism...