Word: buddhists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lodge got to Saigon just as the Diem regime was afflicted with what Mme. Nhu rather indelicately referred to as the "Buddhist barbecues." There are those today who argue that Lodge, as the chief instrument for carrying out the policies of a Democratic Administration in South Viet Nam, cannot reasonably be the Republican presidential nominee. If that is the case, Lodge does not want the nomination, for he fully associates himself with the Kennedy and Johnson policies. Says he: "My attitude was and is exactly the same as that articulated by President Kennedy, which is to say that...
...NEPAL-Asia House, 112 East 64th. The first major exhibition of Nepalese art spans 14 centuries. Limestone sculptures of classical simplicity, gilded idols adorned with precious stones, elaborate cloth paintings of mandalas, the Buddhist diagram for spiritual reintegration. Through...
Laotians rarely worry, but they are always concerned with the state of Vientiane's Thai Dam pagoda. They believe that the black Buddhist shrine is in reality a cork that holds back an evil demon. Last week, when flares arched over the Thai Dam and the rattle of rifle fire broke Vientiane's predawn quiet, many Laotians feared that the cork had come unstuck...
Buddha died only 30 miles from Katmandu. So nearly all of Nepal's art is religious in subject matter, representing a jumbled pantheon of gods drawn from Hindu and Buddhist myths. Some of the art Professor Kramrisch dug out of muddy ditches; some she found in temples. Next week in Manhattan's Asia House, the world gets its first comprehensive look at the sculpture, paintings and manuscripts that she picked. Though the exhibition spans 15 centuries, the works are neither curios of folkways nor dusty museum pieces. They are living idols...
...results for the devout Tantric Buddhist are frenzies of mystical ecstasy. By absorbing the image entirely so that the mind can re-create and understand its every detail, the worshiper has transcended all life, even the image, and is well on his way to nirvana-leaving his art behind...