Word: buddhists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ceremony two weeks ago, Fa Yun, a Buddhist abbot, chanted, sprinkled water on the boat and "dotted the eyes" of the dragon. Harvard Athletic Director John P. Reardon, Jr. '60 helped in the ritual, which was designed to bestow good luck and good fortune upon the Harvard dragon boat...
...Pontiff traveled next to Thailand, where he was welcomed by King Bhumibol Adulyadej in Bangkok's Grand Palace. Catholics make up less than 1% of Thailand's 52 million people. In an unusual ecumenical gesture, John Paul paid a 17-minute call on the Buddhist Supreme Patriarch...
...World War II, only about 5% of South Koreans were Christians. Today the figure is at least 20% of the country's 40 million population, a higher percentage than any other Asian country's except the Philippines' 83.5%. An estimated 16% of South Koreans are Buddhist, and 13% are Confucianist. Millions retain some adherence to various forms of shamanism, a primitive folk religion...
Canon was started in 1937 by Chairman Takeshi Mitarai, a physician, who took the company name from Kannon, the Buddhist figure that represents mercy. The firm made the first advanced 35-mm camera produced in Japan in the 1930s and stayed with these relatively slow-selling models for decades. But after moving into calculators and copiers in the 1960s, Canon applied its electronics know-how to cameras and devised the breakthrough AE-1. The company followed up in 1979 with the Sure Shot, a highly popular $100 pocket camera that automatically focuses itself by using an infra-red beam...
...York audience by appearing at the gala opening in the costume yabusame, a centuries-old ceremonial riding and archery exercise that he has practiced for 40 years. The actor, who is also adept at judo and kendo, seems to have aquired some of the humility of a Buddhist monk as well. Says he: "I'm not always in great pictures, but I'm always true to the Japanese spirit...