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There is, of course, a difference between the lucid gray washes and quick flecks of ink with which the painter Chii-jan, at the end of the 10th century, painted a Buddhist Retreat by Stream and Mountain, and the clumsy spatterings that often declare "spontaneity" in the West. It is partly a difference of insight -Chii-jan's mountain, breathed into serenely vertical form, layer by stratified layer, is as mysterious in its allusions to geological time as any Leonardo landscape. It is also a difference of discipline. The wen-jen served no apprenticeship, and the idea of being...
...ruthless madam. Thereafter Kieu is ravaged, reviled and degraded by a host of villainous men and women. At last, after a rebel warrior who helped her obtain revenge is killed, Kieu throws herself into the Ch'ien-t'ang River. She is rescued by a Buddhist nun and finds peace in the contemplative life-only to be reunited unexpectedly with her family and her first love, a young nobleman named Kim Trong, whom she weds on condition that the marriage never be consummated...
Fear of Reprisal. The students voice a different complaint. They worry that Sanya, a gentle, scholarly Buddhist who studied law in London, may not be able to keep the ambitious young Narong from returning to power. Leaders of the twelve-man executive of the National Student Center of Thailand, which organized most of the demonstrations against the Thanom regime, are so afraid of reprisals from the military that they sleep in a different house each night. Explained one student leader: "Colonel Narong still has his followers. We don't want to go out in the dark night alone." There...
...Dinh Diem last week stirred a curious nostalgia in Saigon. About 3,000 Diem supporters marched to the city's Victorian cathedral to attend a memorial service, then moved on to a nearby cemetery where Diem lies buried under an inconspicuous concrete slab. Gongs tolled. Drums thumped. Buddhist monks intoned prayers. Two Catholic bands played the national anthem...
...term Ukiyo-e means "pictures of the floating world," or, with a tinge of Buddhist severity, "images of the world of illusion." Ukiyo-e, which embodied a shift away from the stony feudal pietas of Japan's ancestral samurai culture, have a style and a subject matter that could only have taken hold in a bustling, sophisticated city like 18th century Edo (later called Tokyo). In Edo, a new class of merchants and craftsmen had risen. Like any bunch of Sony executives whooping it up in an Akasaka nightclub, the members of this bourgeoisie took their pleasures as they...