Word: buddhistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...language. Even after independence in 1948, the official language of Ceylon remained English. In their homes and at work, the people of Ceylon speak either Sinhalese, the language of some 6,000,000 Buddhists on the island, or Tamil, spoken by about 2,000,000 Hindus, the descendants of migrants to Ceylon from India over the centuries. The present government of wispy Premier Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, made up of an odd lot of left-wing parties, came to power two years ago, pledged to turn Ceylon neutralist and to make Sinhalese the "national language." When challenged...
When Laos' two Communist-run northern provinces were integrated into the little kingdom last December, Laotians and many foreign observers remained relaxed. The Pathet Lao's leader, Prince Souphanouvong, was no Communist but a royal prince and a devout Buddhist, they argued; his followers were few and badly organized, and their program in any case was moderate: peace, unity, neutrality and cooperation with all nations, including Communist China and the neighboring Viet Minh. Only a few pessimists feared that by the general election of 1960 the Pathet Lao-which renamed itself the Neo Lao Hak Xat or Patriotic...
Amid the chanting of sutras, the sounding of gongs and the curling smoke of burning incense. Chief Abbot Oda Sesso was ordaining a head priest for the Zen Buddhist temple of Daitokuji Ryosen-An in Kyoto, Japan. The new Zen priest gravely accepted the kesa -the richly brocaded red-and-gold silk scarf that is the mark of the priesthood -and assumed the Buddhist name of Jyokei. But in Chicago, where she was born 65 years ago, her name was Ruth Fuller. Last week she became the first American in history to be admitted to the Japanese Buddhist priesthood...
...eyes flash when she says: "It's not easy to become a Zen Buddhist. I can sit in a monks' hall for seven days, sitting crosslegged, sleeping only one hour a night. I can sit 18 or 24 hours crosslegged, meditating. I can also enjoy a glass of champagne, the opera, a good car -I like a fast car, even though I don't drive any more. One of the things we learn in Zen is complete adaptability...
...center and library for U.S. students of Zen. She ran into an unexpected obstacle when the Daitokuji Temple insisted that the new center be designated as the restored sub-temple of Daitokuji. The solution, proposed by the Abbot of Daitokuji to a flabbergasted Ruth Fuller Sasaki: ordain her as Buddhist priest and install her as head of the sub-temple...