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Walking out of a Buddhist bookstore in San Francisco early this month, I heard from the radio of a passing car the voice of U.S. President George W. Bush giving his annual State of the Union speech. For a second, the word compassion seemed to hang in the clear air. This ideal, greatly cherished by Buddhists, is "one of the deepest values" of America, according to the President...
...Immersed in Buddhist literature for the past few years, I have come to know well how words suddenly lose their familiar meanings when encountered in a different society or culture. I was not surprised when reading Bush's full speech to encounter his own special meaning of such resonant words as "compassion" and "freedom." For instance, his compassion was aimed at "any citizen who feels isolated from the opportunities of America...
FREED. Catholic priest NGUYEN VAN LY, 59, democracy activist NGUYEN DAN QUE, 63, and THICH THIEN MINH, 51, a member of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam; as part of a mass amnesty for 8,325 prisoners by Vietnam's communist government to mark the Lunar New Year; in Hanoi. Amnesty International applauded the release of the human-rights figures, some of whom have been jailed for as long as 25 years...
...ENDED. A 100-day hunger strike by JIYUL, 48, Buddhist nun and environmentalist who has battled Korean authorities for four years over a high-speed train tunnel through the ecologically sensitive Mount Cheonseong area; after the government agreed to a three-month suspension of construction and a new environmental impact assessment; in Seoul. Severely weakened by the fast, her fourth since Feb. 2003, Jiyul will enter a hospital to recover...
MAXI JAZZ A devout Nichiren Buddhist in a band called, paradoxically, Faithless, he raps religiously against the war in Iraq...