Word: buddhistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press reviled Katsura and his "concubine." With rioters in the streets, O-Koi had the presence of mind to tack a FOR RENT sign on her house, and hid out in a back room. The lovers were reunited before Katsura's death, and O-Koi later entered a Buddhist nunnery, where she died after the end of World...
Vientiane-capital of the least of the three nations carved out of French IndoChina-lay in its habitual half-slumber beside the Mekong River. It was the Buddhist Lent in Laos. Temple gongs bonged in the viscous humidity; saffron-robed monks strutted about beneath gaudy parasols or sat cross-legged in the shade, puffing acrid French tobacco and sipping lemonade. Suddenly there was a stir. Official limousines swept out of the royal palace amid shrieking sirens and flapping royal banners (a three-headed elephant against a red background), bearing Prime Minister Prince Souvanna Phouma to the airport to meet...
...some slides of the Philippines furnished by their colleague Mrs. Fe Rodriguez Arcinas. Some views showed handsome rich terraces, flowers and waterfalls. A number were of Roman Catholic churches. "Eighty to 85 per cent of the people are Catholics," Mrs. Arcinas explained. Perhaps the most intriguing architecture are the Buddhist temples and cemeteries. "About one per cent of the people still are Buddhist," she said--a holdover from the days prior to the centuries of Spanish and American rule
Rich and poor alike, the passengers in Rangoon station were in a festive mood last week as they boarded the crack Prome Express, homeward bound to celebrate waso, a Buddhist holy season. Every seat in the expensive compartments was taken, and the railroad had hitched on extra cattle cars to accommodate hundreds of poorer men and women laden down with baskets of food. At outlying stations, scores of waso pilgrims climbed aboard, further packing the train...
...Time to Meditate. All the while, U Nu plaintively talked of retiring to a Buddhist monastery to meditate and write, and for two years his written resignation has been in the hands of Burma's ruling coalition, the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League...