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...artist ranked high in the kingdom, was sometimes even a member of the ruling class. One minister was called "the first of living artists," and there were princes only too happy to bear the title of mason (architect). In subject, the artists favored the deities of Hinduism and Buddhism, which flourished with the Khmers. Like almost all Oriental artists, they modeled their own work largely on what had been done before. The stance of the gods was apt to be ritualistic, and rarely did a Khmer statue show movement...
...says McCord, this raises the question of the uniqueness of Christianity. "Inevitably, the dawn of universal history will be a stimulus to syncretism''-the combining of elements from different religions. "Our most widely read historian. Arnold Toynbee. is an apostle of an amalgam of Christianity and Mahayanian Buddhism." And the syncretist "is an indication of the necessity of a Christian apologetic that will take seriously the new conditions that have emerged and the new context out of which the syncretistic question is asked...
...scored high on College Board aptitude tests: 634 on the verbal portion, 711 on the math portion (out of a possible 800). This summer he gobbled science fiction even at meals ("I couldn't fight it," says his mother), downed books on existentialism, extrasensory perception and Zen Buddhism. He also got hooked on jazz and played daily sand-lot baseball...
Weakened Bands. Unlike their easygoing Lao neighbors (and fellow Buddhists), Burma's soldiers are willing and able to fight, despite the Buddhist scruple against killing. Buddhism is full of loopholes for those who chose to find them: who, for instance, is to blame if a fish dies after the fisherman has rescued it from the wetness in the river...
...telepathic link, were aware of the same events happening at the same time. He lived with his parents on Park Avenue and spent his nights in Greenwich Village. Gentle and humorous, he loved arguing about grammar and augmented his skinny frame with bar bells. Although this was years before Buddhism was peddled in supermarkets, he eagerly studied Zen, gave reading lists on the subject to his dates. He brought an astonishing collection of girls to the Village, bagged with unobtrusive efficiency at a drugstore in Manhattan's chaste Barbizon Hotel for Women. Friends could almost see him storing up dialogue...