Word: buddhists
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...unknown future with just a pink plastic basket holding a few clothes and a bottle of shampoo, Lek starts to cry. Suddenly sensing a need to do everything properly, she runs into the bar, kneels in front of Mama San and begins to bow and chant, a good Buddhist girl in smudged makeup giving thanks for her freedom. Mama San laughs, flattered by the display of supplication. She isn't worried about finding replacements. "Their mothers or the middlemen bring them to me," she says. "There are always fresh ones...
...Himalayan expeditions, Westerners viewed Sherpas as strong and faithful load carriers, the backbone to any climb, but not as true summit contenders. For their part, says Tenzing, Sherpas were bewildered by Westerners' "fascination with these high, cold, dangerous places where the gods lived and men should not venture." Buddhist lamas, consulted before Englishman George Mallory's 1924 Everest expedition, told the Sherpas not to set foot on the summit, because calamity would befall their communities. The Sherpas obeyed; Mallory and Sandy Irvine fatefully disappeared during their climb...
...That sentiment is precisely what worries Beijing. As China gears up for an expected succession struggle in the Politburo later this year, the Communist Party wants to ensure that no group nibbles away at its hold on power. Thus Beijing's severe crackdown on Falun Gong, the Buddhist-exercise movement that spooked China's leaders by getting 10,000 followers to protest in front of Beijing's leadership compound three years ago. The demonstration prompted the hasty passage of a law dictating harsh punishment to anyone involved in a cult?while conveniently failing to define what exactly constitutes one. "Anytime...
...Shan Plain, some 700 km from Hohhot, the Helan Shan range rises to 3,600 m, and the landscape suddenly blooms with a stunning array of alpine trees, grasses and flowers?an almost overwhelming riot of color for eyes accustomed to the dun of the desert. A new Buddhist temple nestles just below the summit. The Tibetan-style structure, painted in dazzling primary colors, was built to replace the previous temple, which was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution...
...local high school, John transferred to Tamiscal High, an alternative school with 100 students and a self-directed, individualized course of study. As a freshman and sophomore, Walker studied world arts and culture, including Islam and the Middle East. Marilyn Walker had left Catholicism and become a Buddhist; John was intrigued by religion too. "She opened all those doors for her kids," says Bill Jones, a family friend, "instead of dragging her kids into Catholicism like she'd been dragged into...