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...TIME cover story is expected to surround, probe and analyze the subject, showing all sides as well as depth. Few issues have so many sides, and few need so much to be explored and explained as this week's cover subject-the ancient religion of Buddhism, now emerging as a new political force in Asia...
...report on the many complexities of the force that is Buddhism in the world of 1964, we called on twelve correspondents and stringers spread throughout the lands where Buddha is a pervasive figure. The key correspondent was Tokyo Bureau Chief Jerrold Schecter, who ranged over most of the Buddhist-influenced territory and who, not so incidentally, is finishing a book on Buddhism and politics in Southeast Asia. Absorbing all the reporting along with the rich store of existing Buddhist literature caused Writer Jason McManus to spend, appropriately enough, even more time than most cover stories require in sheer contemplation...
Above all, it is in South VietNam that political Buddhism is making its most vigorous, most open attempt to seize temporal power. Buddhism now may be as great a threat to the embattled country as the Viet Cong?if not greater. Saigon has just passed through a week of riots in which the believers in the reverence for life tossed hand grenades from the sanctuary of Buddhist headquarters, teenagers supposedly raised in "the Middle Way" ganged up on policemen, and disciples of the gentle Buddha pushed old people and children as human shields ahead of demonstrators...
...Heartland. Yet the lesson of Buddhism's fate under Communism is plain to see. In North Korea, the monks were simply put to work in factories or on farms. In North Viet Nam, where, oddly enough, Buddhism officially remains the state religion, the Communists have killed Buddhism with "kindness" by installing puppet monks to back the government. But with 6,000 pagodas, North Viet Nam now has only 4,000 monks. Says one recent resident: "They don't even bother to light incense in the temples any more...
...maybe experience is only a search itself. (Reason, a failure both empirically and in the reversed eyes of Zen Buddhism, may never unearth those "great ultimate" answers to the problem of existence.) Square claims to have the answer--hip has only a question...