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...Which, according to lore, was brought to Ceylon in the 4th century by a princess who had hidden it in her hair when Buddhism was driven out of India. Centuries later, a Roman Catholic Archbishop of Goa had the tooth ground into powder and thrown into the sea. But a Sinhalese prince later proclaimed that the tooth had reassembled itself and returned to its sanctuary...
...forward by the Communists in the government, to permit the legal tapping of coconut trees and turn the sap into toddy, thus heading off illicit bootlegging and bringing new revenue into the treasury. When Mrs. Bandaranaike tried to win back the monks, who practice temperance, by promising to make Buddhism Ceylon's official religion, they refused for fear of coming under state control...
...sociology of Islamic countries is History of Religions 231, primarily for graduates. It covers Mohammed; no course covers the development of Islamic theology and religious law as an exclusive interest. Far Eastern religions are touched on in several literary surveys and intellectural histories of the area, but only Buddhism is studied for its own sake. Hinduism, Confucianism and Taoism are totally left out; even the Buddhism courses (Indian Studies 131a and Chinese 132) are taught by the area departments and are connected with the phenomenon of religion in general. Old Testament Judaism is covered well only because it fits...
...Buddhist, I interpreted your article on the subject as an unregenerate evaluation of the antinomies of a great religion. The adroitness of this article does not, in my opinion, redeem it from constituting an affront to the exponents of this faith. Antinomianism is not peculiar to Buddhism, but is rather an inherent pitfall in any religion. The deeper the spiritual insight one attains, the more dramatic the manifestations of this particular pitfall might become...
...earth's population will be Christian -compared with 35% in 1900. Moreover, the churches' very existence is threatened in areas where growth is most rapid. In Africa and Asia, for example, the young churches must brave the resurgence of such non-Christian faiths as Islam and Buddhism, the enmity of freedom movements that would eradicate the "white man's religion" as a vestige of the colonial past...