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...necessary to execute a royal personage, he was put inside a red bag, to avoid touching him, and beaten to death with a sandalwood stick wrapped in silk. Ordinary sentence of death in modern Thailand is meted out by machine gun following sentences of the courts. But with Buddhist reverence for life and typical Thai indirection, the condemned is concealed behind a curtain on which is painted a target-and it is the target at which the state's machine gunners fire...
...government has also enlisted a powerful ally in its war against the Communists: Thailand's Buddhist monks. The Thais alone in Asia have made the Buddhist church an official establishment, with the government the legal owner of the nation's 23,000 temples - one for every 1,300 Thais. Monks in the northeast are helping in community-development projects and dis tributing medicine and clothes to needy villagers. In a cool mountain valley in Moslem Yala province, the government recently resettled 300 Buddhist families, plans to bring in 5,000 more within five years as a stabilizing influence...
...Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh, dir- of the School of Social Studies at the Buddhist University of Saigon, will speak at Dunster House at 7:45 p.m. today on Determination in Vietnam...
Nhat Hanh is director of the Youth Social Service Program which is sending young volunteers into the villages of South Vietnam in an effort to advance social reconstruction. He is also editor of a leading Buddhist weekly periodical...
Until 1963 Nhat Hanh taught Oriental Religions at Columbia University. He studied at both Princeton and Columbia. With the Buddhist uprising against the Diem government, he was called back to Vietnam by Thich Tri Quang, and has stayed there until his present trip...