Word: buddhistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strangled a Japanese captain. Beside the captain's body Kim left a note setting forth his name, address and the reason for the murder. (The captain had engineered the murder of a Korean queen.) The authorities threw Kim into jail, but in 1901 he escaped, disguised as a Buddhist priest. In 1917 Kim decided that periodic prison stretches were interfering with his efficiency as an assassin, transferred his base of operations to Shanghai. There he organized a bombing which killed a Japanese general, mutilated a Japanese admiral and blew a leg off Mamoru Shigemitsu, who later signed Japan...
While Burma's devout Premier Thakin Nu prayed for peace at a Buddhist altar, his government's drive to end civil strife had cut down and scattered the fierce Karen rebels (TIME, June 5). Recently, the government got word that insurgent Karen "Premier" Saw Ba U Gyi was hiding out near the Siam border...
...Madonna was an almond-eyed lady in a flowing kimono. A Maori artist decked her in a long grass skirt. African carvers made her a Negro, often barebreasted, sometimes put heavy coils of beads round her neck. Indo-Chinese versions of the Madonna were apt to resemble the Buddhist goddess of Mercy, Kuan...
...Monsignor Costantini, all that seems right and proper. European artists, too, had often represented the saints as being of their own race, place and period. The Buddhist goddess Kuan Yin, he explains, had many of the same virtues that Christians revere in the Madonna: purity, motherhood and the understanding of sorrows. He also approved of Hindu representations of Christ that looked like the god Siva, "because Siva is a highly spirtualized deity. But we do object to Christ being represented in the guise of Buddha, since Buddha is worshiped...
From former Home Affairs Minister Paik Sung Wook, a pious Buddhist who until last week ran South Korea's police force, came word of an omen which he felt blessed the republic's cause. The omen: the year 1950 in the Korean calendar is 4283. Reversed, 4283 reads 3824. In Korean 3824 is pronounced "Sampal isa" which also means "No more 38th...