Word: buddhists
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...beginning a novitiate in the 2,500-year-old tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Today Ane Pema Cho-dron, 47, whose name means "lotus dharma torch," is executive director of a meditation center in Boulder, Colo., and probably the only American woman to have been fully ordained as a Buddhist nun. The mother of two children and a former elementary school teacher in California and New Mexico, Chodron followed the path of enlightenment to Hong Kong. There she made more than 300 vows, including celibacy, abstinence from alcohol and never to handle money, travel alone or ride in a vehicle. Even...
MacLeod spent his junior year in Nepal living with a Tibetan family, in a Buddhist monastery, and teaching English in Southern India in a Tibetan resettlement organization...
Outside the dining room, dinner guests had the opportunity to see the King's recent gifts to the University of two Nepalese religious artifacts. One is a model of a Hindu temple and the other is a model of a Buddhist Stupe...
When troubled by pressing problems, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone often seeks the solitude of To kyo's Zensho-an Buddhist temple. Last week was no exception. During almost a year in office, Nakasone has projected an image of strong leadership abroad and developed close personal ties with President Reagan, who will make a three-day visit to Japan this week. But at home, the Liberal Democratic statesman has seemed uncertain about how to handle the scandal sur rounding his longtime political ally, for mer Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka. As pressure mounted on Nakasone to dis tance himself from...
...leave the feast of Tet to the Vietnamese celebrators filling the streets. Thousands of firecrackers popped and fizzed in the moonless night. The Year of the Monkey had begun, and every Vietnamese knew that it was wise to make merry while there was yet time; in the twelve-year Buddhist lunar cycle, 1968 is a grimly inauspicious year...