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...election increased the strength of four of Japan's five opposition parties in the lower house of the Diet (the other loser: the Communists, who dropped 22 of their 39 seats). The chief beneficiaries of the voter uprising were three moderate reform groups: the Buddhist-backed Komeito (Clean Government Party), the Democratic Socialist Party and the New Liberal Club, a maverick L.D.P. spin-off dedicated to "rehabilitating conservatism...
...mankind's myths. Here is Himbui the Hummingbird, the fire bringer of Peru's Jivaro Indians, cheek by jowl with Prometheus. Here is Polynesian Forest God Tanemahuta forcibly separating Father Sky from Mother Earth. Visions of heavens and hells are shared by Aztec and Hindu, Algonquin and Buddhist. This sweeping survey of human imagination is buttressed by 1,300 illustrations, excellent maps, and essays by Scholars Joseph Campbell and Mircea Eliade...
...before Karmapa, in the United States to open a Buddhist monastery administered to the faithful, Powell and Jordan participated in discussions for the more cynical in the Institute of Politics' second Conference on Campaign Decision-Making, held last weekend...
...reception at Andover Hall, the Buddhist leader received several gifts from Cox and Krister Stendahl, dean of the Divinity School, including a miniature Liberty Bell. Offering the metallic souvenir, Cox said, "We would like to think of Harvard as an old school, but we feel very young in your presence...
Karmapa will publicly perform the ancient ceremony of the Vajra Crown, a sacred Buddhist rite, in Boston on December 9. Only Karmapa is permitted to perform the rite, which his followers say "transmits directly to the audience the energy and intelligence of the Karmapa's awakened state of mind...