Word: buddhistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grizzled old Buddhist Wizard of Kalimpong specializes in freeing the struggling spirits of the dying. This he accomplishes by sticking a hollow tube down the dying man's throat to provide a spiritual exit; at the same time the Wizard toots a horn made of a human thigh bone. The Wizard might be thought eccentric elsewhere, but not in Kalimpong (pop. 8,800), a zany Indian town straddling a 4,000-foot ridge in the Himalayan foothills...
...recent Kalimpong acquisition is the Young Men's Buddhist Association. It was modeled after the Y.M.C.A. by its founder, former British Army Colonel John Ryan, now a Buddhist priest. Ryan, who pinch-hits as American propagandist, giving weekly showings of U.S. Information Service movies in the town hall, embraces the Hinayana or southern variety of Buddhism...
...Lhasa's golden-roofed lamaseries, the Buddhist theocrats who have ruled Tibet's 3,000,000 people spun their prayerwheels, consulted ancient oracles, conferred. For the non-Communist world, the sole source of news from the capital was the radio transmitter of the Indian agent stationed there. For seven days it was silent, and the rumor rose that a pro-appeasement lamasery revolution had unseated the young (16) Dalai Lama. Then the wireless spoke again. "Extreme worry," it reported, gripped the Tibetans. The Dalai Lama and his Regent, Takta Rimpoche, must soon choose one of three courses: flight...
Since India would not go beyond indignant remonstrance with Peking (see below), some Tibetans talked of an appeal to the U.N. So far, the only outside help came from Calcutta. There a group of lamas staged a weeklong, nonstop recitation of Buddhist scriptures and prayers for peace. They then paraded through the streets beating drums, blowing 15-foot-long conches, and sprinkling holy water on the faithful...
Shrieks & Secrets. Journeying to China in 1927, "Kalty" interviewed Chiang Kaishek, "an altogether charming human being" at a back province Buddhist monastery. The generalissimo, says Kaltenborn, "was clearly pleased that we had come so far to see him," and sent a breakfast of "California oranges and . . . San Francisco chocolate drops." Mussolini was pleased, too. "He even treated us as important guests by rising from his chair and advancing to the front of his desk while we covered the interminable distance . . . across the immense room." When Il Duce had trouble with English words, recalls Kaltenborn, "I would tentatively suggest one. Several...