Word: buddhist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elected every five years, or in Laos, where the King sits largely helpless but pleasant above war and factions, the monarchy provides at least a semblance of unifying tradition-plus something to talk about. In Thailand, it is immensely important. King Bhumibol Adulyadej seems all but divine to his Buddhist masses-an impression enhanced by the tradition that people must approach him crawling along the floor on hands and knees. But he is really a modern monarch, using the ancient ways and rituals to carry his country forward. Theoretically he is a figurehead, limited to ceremonial functions. Beneath the surface...
...THREE BANNERS OF CHINA by Marc Riboud. 216 pages. Macmillan. $12.50. Another objective glance at Red China, including visits to Buddhist caves, a girls' dormitory at Kunming University and a Peking divorce court. The pictures were taken last year; and, since Riboud, a French journalist, spent four months in China in 1957, he is informative on the contrasts and changes since then. In sum, he sees it as a land that would be a hell for Westerners but bearable for Eastern peasants. The Chinese are constantly exhorted to read the works of Mao Tse-tung daily, and Riboud offers...
...Thais, but nursed to fruition by the same Bangkok-based U.N. Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East that inspired the formation of the ADB, the fair opened with Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej releasing 2,509 pigeons - one for each year of the Buddhist era. The King then joined his beautiful wife, Queen Sirikit, for a swing through 250 acres of fairgrounds in a yellow Rolls-Royce...
...from Abraham by way of his son Ishmael. But the Jews are an Asian people. The white race is the Scandanavians, the Teutons, the Celtics, the Irish -- some of the Irish -- and the Basques, and the Lombards. The rest of the people come from an Asian race, a Zen Buddhist race, and yet the people of the United States don't even bother to find out about...
...talkin' about, look at the similarities between the Jewish race, and nigras and the orientals. Look at the words Judah, Buddha, and Voodah." (Voodoo with a heavy southern slur.) "Doesn't that suggest something?" he hinted. "Now you see why I say David Ben-Gurion is a Zen-Buddhist...