Word: buddhisme
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...than the supposed tooth of Lord Buddha encased in the innermost of seven gold caskets in the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy. The pious believe that this tooth was brought to Ceylon by a 4th century princess of Kalinga, who fled with it hidden in her hair when Buddhism was driven out of India...
...gone into a political and physical decline. Now a teetotaler, he has made a political comeback. Cambridge-educated Senanayake, a Buddhist himself, lashed out at island Marxists who for years have posed as the protectors of the impoverished Buddhist peasantry. Marxism's real feelings about Buddhism, said Senanayake, can be read in the defiled temples and murdered monks of Tibet. As he spoke small boys circulated with handbills showing a drawing of the Temple of the Tooth with a question mark hovering above it, implying that it could be Marxism's next atrocity target...
...adopted the Buddhist saffron as his party color, and when the Moslems protested against his promise to make Buddhism the state religion, he gently reminded them that it was he who had translated their own Koran into Burmese. And while campaigners enthusiastically shrieked epithets at each other as in the old days ("Epileptic!" "Mange-covered leper!"), U Nu took the line that a victory for his opponents "might produce a third World...
...cherry blossoms and geishas, and on the other by hara-kiri and kamikaze. Readers who suspect that there is more to Japan than this may find out precisely what by opening either of two handsome, informative, reliable and engagingly written books. Living Japan is a succinct introductory, from Zen Buddhism to transistorized radios, by a top U.S. scholar, Donald Keene, associate professor of Japanese at Columbia. Author Keene's book has the edge in the number and beauty of its photographs. But Meeting with Japan is steeped in deeper experience. From 1938 to 1943, Italian-born Anthropologist Fosco Maraini...
...deputy. U Nu traveled up and down assuring voters that in meditating he "became humble and made new resolutions to become a good man." His Cleans would "behave like good politicians to merit admission to the higher abode of nirvana," and he promised if elected to make Buddhism the "state religion." Last week the Cleans won municipal majorities in eleven major Burmese cities, and in Mandalay, Burma's second largest city, U Nu's forces cleaned out the Stables with a vengeance. U Nu candidates, expecting to win 20 seats in the municipal corporation, swept all 35 seats...