Word: buddhists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buddhist Demonstrations. In the Sai gon government's ouster of popular, powerful I Corps Commander Thi fort night ago, the politically ambitious Bud dhist bonzes thought they had a torch to hold to the feet of the government...
...will survive, Thai said, because he is "honest"--which from the way Thai stressed the word suggested that Ky is an exception. Yet And Thai hedges all his bets by expressing great admiration for the Catholic power behind Ky like Chief of State Thieu as well as Thieu's Buddhist arch-rival Tri Quang...
...takes quite a pitchman and a lot of positive thinking to describe the recent Buddhist riots not as a threat of overthrow, but as a "test of Premier Ky's statesmanship;" or to view Ky's autocratic ousting of General Thi, as "the emergence of democratic leadership." Thi had to go, the Ambassador, asserted, "because he didn't represent the majority." The majority of the Vietnamese people? he was asked. "No, the majority of the military leaders...
...Vietnamese: Buddhist, Catholic, Northerner, or Southerner is concerned about the risk of satellization of their fatherland to Communist China," Vu asserted...
...portrait of the traveling monk Zemmui, a member of the Tendai Buddhist sect, which ranks as a Japanese Giotto. It is a masterpiece of the 11th century, when the Fujiwara shoguns reigned, encouraging the arts as the Medicis did in Italy. The unknown artist profiles the Indian-born patriarch, a posture seldom used before, and gives him a Japanese face. As a light touch, the great priest's shoes appear below his chair, casually kicked off rather than neatly lined up to conform to Japanese etiquette. The picture is incredibly shallow spatially; the chair legs appear...