Word: buddhist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year and a half since he vaulted from the cockpit of a fighter-bomber to become South Viet Nam's Premier, Northern-born Nguyen Cao Ky, 36, has shown a remarkable adaptability to the art of Asian politics. His handling of the Buddhist "struggle" crisis last spring showed expert timing. His Cabinet-level downgrading of ambitious "Southerners" has been deft and sometimes subtle. His trip to Australia and New Zealand, despite demonstrations against him, generally created a surprisingly good impression. Unlike such predecessors as Big Minh and Nguyen Khanh, the flamboyant, purple-scarfed aviator has been remarkably...
...countered with his standard attacks on the U.S. and routine demands for Japanese neutrality, with plenty of references to corruption thrown in. More exciting to outsiders was the debut on the national scene of Komeito, the Clean Government Party, which is the political arm of the militant Soka Gakkai Buddhist sect. Competing for 32 seats, Komeito's candidates were young and energetic, and observers gave them a good chance to win at least 27 of their contests. The election-eve guess was that Sato and his Liberal Democratic Party would be returned to power but could take slight losses...
More Magnanimous. Into the polling places-Buddhist temples, tin-roofed schools, thatched jungle huts-swarmed 420,000 of the electorate. Somehow, Souvanna's web held. By week's end more than 30 of his supporters were elected, giving him a clear majority. In dismissing the previous Assembly for refusing to approve his budget, Souvanna had declared: "If the next Assembly is no better than the last, then I shall get rid of it." After the elections, though, he felt magnanimous. At a Vientiane news conference that included Russians, Americans and Red Chinese, he said: "I believe...
Most Indian art is religious in nature, but even the exceptions (the most noticeable are the Rajput miniatures) are intimately bound up in the philosophical and religious traditions. Unlike Christian art, which exemplifies a didactic theme, Hindu and Buddhist art attempts to directly trigger a religious experience...
...lower house, still call for class warfare and complete nationalization of all Japanese industry, which hardly endears them to the country's increasingly prosperous electorate. The middle-of-the-road Democratic Socialists, who held 23 seats, are simply too vacillating to generate wide support. And the neo-Buddhist Clean Government Party, which will be running in its first general election, is too new and too limited in its appeal to pose a major threat to the Liberal Democrats...