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...most timely chapters in Lacouture's book asks, "What do the Buddhists want?" The Buddhist organization has attempted to eliminate from the country all influences foreign to it such as Catholicism and materialism. They want to have Buddhism proclaimed the state religion and religious leaders like Tri Quang, the "conscience" of the future South Vietnam...
THUS, in a cover story on Buddhism 16 months ago, did the editors appraise the little-known, shadowy figure who last week emerged-big. That earlier story, "Buddha on the Barricades," examined the faith and its activist-passivist syndrome and warned that it is a force to be reckoned with. With the reckoning now nearer at hand, Tri Quang became the cover this week...
...with their files from Saigon and others from the Tokyo and Washington bureaus, Writer Jason McManus brought his own knowledgeableness to the story: he has written in addition to many of our week-to-week stories on Viet Nam, five of the cover stories, including the 1964 study of Buddhism...
...Perfect Conspirator." When the French were thrown out and President Ngo Dinh Diem took over in 1955, Tri Quang, in common with many of his brother monks, was hardly over joyed. For 80 years under the French, Catholicism had been nurtured at the expense of Buddhism, and a Catholic church occupied the choice site in every town. Catholic schools provided education that the Buddhists could not afford to match, and Catholic merchants and civil servants, thus equipped, inevitably prospered. To Tri Quang, the Catholic Diem was merely an extension of the worst ills of French rule. In the monk...
...teaches a Sunday-school class at the Gilbert Congregational Church." By contrast, Justice Stuart pointed to Painter's seven jobs in ten years, asserted that he is "either an agnostic or an atheist and has no concern for formal religious training. He has read a lot of Zen Buddhism." Though Marylyn is a Roman Catholic, the couple planned to send Mark to a Congregational church "on an irregular schedule." Painter, added Stuart, is "a political liberal...