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...Kandy's temple is one of Buddhism's holiest shrines. It is supposed to house a tooth of the Gautama Buddha, brought to Ceylon for safekeeping in the 4th Century. The Portuguese claim to have burned this relic in the market place at Goa in the 16th Century, and since then successive teeth have been stolen from the temple by other invaders. But pious Buddhists still believe that the enshrined relic, a chunk of ivory 20 times the size of an ordinary tooth, is the original...
...centuries Christians have been witnessing that the surrender "to a higher power" is the only successful approach to all personal problems. And for centuries before Christianity this principle was proclaimed. Aldous Huxley in The Perennial Philosophy says that self-surrender "is inculcated ... in the . . . writings of Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and most of the other major and minor religions of the world." In recent years in the popular publications, A.A. and many other laymen and churchmen have been advocating this approach to abundant living. It is nice to know that science is at last catching up with the Truth. RUTH HITCHCOCK...
...underneath he wore silk-lined furs. To his guests he served only cabbage and dumplings, but when they were gone, he and his wife dined on chicken and fish. He displayed Christianity-once he baptized a whole regiment with a garden hose -but in 1930 he turned to Buddhism. He was a strict disciplinarian, and when his soldiers were late for drill he made them stand in a corner for as long as they had been late. Once, when he himself was the offender, he cracked down on himself. "Feng Yu-hsiang is ten minutes late!" he bellowed...
Different Burmans had different ideas as to what independence meant : a popular actress advocated high-caliber plays which would reform wayward girls; a monk hoped that Buddhism would flourish. But even with British help, the new state will have a hard time enjoying the blessings of sovereignty. Twice a battleground in World War II, Burma emerged with its oil refineries in ruins, its rice and teak exports paralyzed...
...Premier Hideki Tojo, still on trial as a war criminal, got a rather wistful new name, now that he had junked Shintoism for Buddhism. The name, to be chiseled on his tombstone: Eishoin Shakuji Komyoro Koji. Approximate English translation: "By Buddha's grace, all sins committed while living are absolved...