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...kept before cremation; and behind that, near a patch of sweet potatoes, the crematorium sits in a clearing under a shed, like a doll's chapel. There is no activity there today. But the wat itself is busy with a festival marking the last day of the Buddhist Lent. A monk in yellow sits cross-legged on a table, while children crouched in a circle burn incense. The smoke is supposed to fly to heaven in order to beckon their ancestors to descend and join them...
...picturesque Japanese island of Ikitsuki, where the ways of farmers and fishermen die hard, two old men squat before a home altar and chant prayers carefully entrusted to them by their ancestors. The ritual is intense and moving. But something is askew. The rite is partly Buddhist, partly Christian. The language sounds odd, a sort of pidgin Latin. And what do the ancient prayers mean? One of the worshipers admits, "I don't understand a word of this...
...catalogue is an intimidating and impressive document. From Social Analysis 10, "Principles of Economics," which draws more than 1000 students every year, to Sanskrit 110, "Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit" (in a department which has had one concentrator in the last five years), Harvard's breadth is staggering. For all that Harvard is accused of encouraging pre-professionalism, and for all that students allow some insidious notion of "usefulness" to determine what they study, we are all fortunate to attend a school where Linguistics 161: "Structure of Wiyot" is happily offered to any and all takers. So join the line...
Gently rolling, woodsy Dunn, Wis. (pop. 4,965), could never pass for Shangrila. But the karma was fabulous there last week, thanks to a visit by the Dalai Lama, 46, the exiled leader of Tibet's Buddhists. Some 1,500 pilgrims arrived in a caravan of black-and-yellow school buses at the town's 13-acre Deer Park Buddhist Center. The occasion: the spectacular Kalachakra, the wheel-of-time ceremony that all but guarantees participants nirvana. Never before performed in the West, the Kalachakra has been given only six other times by the present Dalai Lama...
...sponsored by the Center for the Study of World Religions and the American Institute for Buddhist Studies, the stop will be part of a six-week lecture tour that will take the Dalai Lama to England and the Midwest before he arrives here August...