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...Lanka (formerly Ceylon), who have managed to turn government into something of a family affair. At the head of the Indian Ocean republic is Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the Prime Minister and widow of S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, who held this post from 1956 until he was assassinated by a Buddhist monk in 1959. Since Mrs. Bandaranaike was last elected in 1970, an imposing number of her relatives-both from her own family, the feudal Ratwatte clan, and her in-laws, the equally aristocratic Bandaranaikes-have assumed high office...
...years ago, Dutch Author van de Wetering won wide praise for The Empty Mirror, a fascinating account of his experiences as a novice monk in a Japanese Zen Buddhist monastery (TIME, Feb. 11,1974). Now he mixes his Western upbringing and Eastern training to emerge as, of all things, a superlative mystery writer. This first novel starts in standard fashion: a man is found hanged, slowly turning on the rope, because "bodies suspended by the neck are never quite still." What follows is hardly conventional...
...York debut was part of a week-long interreligious festival. Overblown publicity claimed: "For the very first time the spiritual-symbolic leaders of 2.7 billion people are coming to the United States." Not exactly, but those who did appear included the head of the World Fellowship of Buddhists, a Muslim statesman, a Hindu swami, teachers of Zen and India's Jain religion, a Sioux medicine man and a psychic ex-astronaut. The program also offered Shinto, Jewish and Buddhist rituals. At week's end representatives of the major faiths spoke at the United Nations...
...practical and not meditative enough. Most Hindu gurus, for instance, teach one or another form of yoga, which combines practical exercises with meditation to achieve union with Brahma?the ultimate reality or Absolute. Yoga itself is the Sanskrit word for a yoking, or union. The various branches of Buddhist meditation?Zen and Tibetan, for example?usually require great discipline and concentration to try similarly to gain nirvana, that ineffable state of liberation and union with ultimate reality in which suffering is eliminated and compassion and wisdom are attained. "Transcendental Meditation does not reach the stage of giving you awareness...
...camera seems to do strange things to the picture taker, viewer and subject alike. The A.P.'s Peter Arnett recalls watching a Buddhist monk in Viet Nam douse himself with gasoline and set himself on fire. "I could have prevented that immolation," says Arnett. "As a human being, I wanted to; as a reporter, I couldn't." Undoubtedly the issue was further complicated because the monk wanted pictures of his suicide circulated round the world...