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...Asian Buddhism has come to life in ways that puzzle and often confound Westerners. Gautama taught the denial of self, a reverence for life and a search for the Middle Way to noninvolvement. Yet his modern disciples are everywhere involved in the turmoil of their times. In Ceylon, a Buddhist monk assassinated one Prime Minister, and Buddhist ward politicians turned another out of office. In Viet Nam, the grisly silhouette of a Buddhist toppling in flames of protest has symbolized the Buddhists' own private wars against one Saigon government after another...
...India from Poland or Lithuania and all. His mother is always telling Joe to tuck his goddam shirt in, but she's mostly wrapped up in all the swell work she's doing for the Bombay chapter of the Hadassah and worrying about her daughters marrying some Buddhist. His father-Sir Abraham for Chrissake-is a King's Counsel, a lawyer who's only interested in making money. Boy, that's one thing Joe is really ambivalent about. "I hated the poor because they had no money," he says, "and the rich because they...
...little as $49 a week and drift about the placid, clear mountain lakes. For the more rugged visitor, Nepal has the Tigertops Hotel, which offers its guests an elephant-back excursion through the jungles. For the athletic, there is a $300-a-week hiking trip through tiny Buddhist villages, across flower-carpeted Himalayan meadows and on up to the level of mountain climbers' base camps (16,000 ft.) on Mount Everest...
Greetings, Everybody. Hopes were not nearly so high when the delegates, elected from every province in South Viet Nam, first assembled to begin their drafting last fall. Only Buddhist pressures in the first place had persuaded the reluctant generals, led by Ky and Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu, to permit the Constituent Assembly's election. The Viet Cong put some pressures on the new delegates, threatening to kill them all. One deputy, Tran Van Van, was assassinated; another, Dr. Phan Quang Dan, narrowly escaped death when his car was booby-trapped...
...prove to be its own worst enemy. Most of the delegates were young (average age: 34), raw and rural, with nothing in their lifetime under the French or the Diem regime to prepare them for free debate or the subtleties of constitution making. Because they were all too representative-Buddhist, Catholic, Chinese, Montagnard, Hoa Hao, Cao Dai-fragmentism and special pleading became the order of the day. Among the first orders that went out were for selfish perks: drinking water on their desks, more electric fans, a request (withdrawn on second thought) for private cars at their disposal...