Word: buddhistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indonesians like to call themselves "The Children of the East." Their cultural values were formed during a thousand years of Brahminist-Buddhist teaching, culminating in the great, 14th century Hindu-Javanese civilization of Madjapahit. Then came the swift, peaceful penetration of Islam. Securing a firm but gentle grip on the islands (Indonesia is now the world's largest Moslem nation), Islam took on a subtle duality. Moslem mosques assumed Hindu temple forms; followers were called to prayer on Oriental gongs. While putting on the cloak of Islam, the Indonesians remained essentially Eastern; nor has their character changed under...
...water in Laos last week, and thousands of Communists were pouring across the northern border of the little Buddhist kingdom. The government of Laos, one of the three Associated States of Indo-China, was gasping on the mud-bank of its unpreparedness...
...only be reached by air, by traversing two very bad roads, or by sailing up the mighty Mekong. Half its people are Thais, living in the lowland valleys; the other half are primitive Khas and Meos. Huge, smiling statues of Buddha dot the landscape, and saffron-robed Buddhist monks are everywhere. Wearing scarlet jackets, gold and silver beads and bracelets and flowers in their hair, the Laotian women are graceful and attractive and given to music, dancing and proverbs. At nightlong parties, they dance the Lap Ton to a harmonious, high-pitched, 17-hole flute called...
Lyons: Not necessarily . . . We deal with areas of the world that are largely Buddhist, Moslem, Hindu and so forth...
Bearded priests of the Russian Orthodox Church and the clergy of Moscow's few "outside" churches-Roman Catholic, Baptist, Lutheran, Moslem and Buddhist -called special services to pray for the man who boasted of his atheism. The rabbis of Russia summoned their worshipers to bless the man who had so recently set in motion the scourge of antiSemitism...