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...American photographer. At Aldan, Sochurek talked Aeroflot officials into renting him a helicopter to photograph the gold fields and track down the reindeer herds that graze in the area. In the eastern Siberian republic of Buryat, he visited and became the first American to photograph the isolated Buryat Buddhist monastery...
...held in Chicago last January. The participants examined 27 "trendsetting" religious communities of a wide variety. They included King's Temple in Seattle (an independent middle-class Pentecostal church), Lighthouse Ranch in California (a prospering Jesus movement commune) and Tail of the Tiger in Barnet, Vt. (a Tibetan Buddhist meditation community founded...
...Hindu imports spin on and on in the catalogue of current U.S. spiritual movements. So, too, do the offshoots of Buddhism, which began in India as a reform movement within Hinduism in the 6th century B.C. Gautama Buddha, the Enlightened One who founded the Buddhist family of religions, de-emphasized the Hindu gods; some schools of Buddhism-Zen, for instance-still reflect a kind of agnosticism. But the basic spiritual focus in the many forms of Buddhism is the attainment of nirvana, an ineffable state of liberation and union with ultimate reality in which suffering is eliminated, and compassion...
Berrigan said that the only church group which did not succumb to America's will is the Buddhist Church of Vietnam. "By their persistent opposition to war's violence the Buddhists provide the best example a concerned American can look to," he said...
They are of all ages and backgrounds. One was arrested in 1966 during Buddhist riots. Another was caught in the 1968 Tet offensive. Now all are united by deformity. "I was arrested one day in the park with my wife and children," one man says as he rubs the shackle sores on his legs. "The police attached electrodes to my genitals, broke my fingers, and hung me from the ceiling by my feet. They did these things to my wife, too, and forced my children to watch. But I never gave...