Word: buddhisme
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Nietzsche's superman was one of his first ideals; Henri Bergson's matter-mastering Life Force was his first philosophy, followed by bouts with Buddhism and Leninism. Though he sometimes sounded like an atheist and proclaimed that man creates God in his own image, Kazantzakis was agonized by the struggle for faith and haunted by the figure of Christ. His 1948 novel, The Greek Passion-in which a group of villagers with roles in a passion play are forced to act out their roles in real life-movingly restated the old idea that if Christ returned to earth...
...clear my head." Back in 1930, he was attacked by a skin disease that doctors pronounced incurable. After five years of suffering, Ikeda listened to his mother's urging and set out on a pilgrimage. Swathed in bandages, he dragged himself painfully around Osaki Island to 88 of Buddhism's holy places. The disease disappeared...
Freudian Slip. In Dallas, on a final exam, a Southern Methodist University coed misspelled a word but otherwise correctly identified the fifth precept of Buddhism: "Do not be unchased...
...Buddhism was their religion; yet they also found much to love in the gods and goddesses of Greece and Rome. They were fascinated by centaurs and Tritons, and they could produce a handsome Athena or Roma, helmet and all. They dutifully gave Buddha's head the magic bump that marked his Buddhahood-though they were likely to disguise it under a mop of hair inspired by Apollo. Buddha himself often appeared draped in a Roman toga, and some of the men could have come straight out of the Roman Senate. But while the artists borrowed, they did not copy...
...Last time. U Nu acknowledged, "we bit off more than we could chew. We propose not to embark on any new state enterprise, and, in particular, not to nationalize any existing industry now in private hands." Topping off his speech, U Nu repeated his most cherished pledge-to make Buddhism Burma's state religion...