Word: ceylonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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China also lashed out at Japan, Indonesia and Ceylon for that sin of sins against Peking: cozying up to Taiwan. Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato's three-day good-will visit to Taiwan came under the heaviest fire. Sato, said the Chinese, was intervening "in the domestic affairs of China." Peking threatened to cut off trade with Japan, as it had done in 1958 for five years after a Chinese flag was pulled down in a Japanese department store display, and underscored its ire by expelling three of the nine Japanese correspondents resident in Peking...
...children of their Peking diplomats forced to crawl under portraits of Mao. Italy last week was enduring the truculence of the skipper of a Chinese freighter in Genoa bent on converting the Genovese to Mao. Last week alone, the Chinese accused nations as diverse as Burma, Kenya and Ceylon of participating in an unholy Soviet-American alliance against Peking...
...Siddhartha Gautama, Asian Buddhism has come to life in ways that puzzle and often confound Westerners. Gautama taught the denial of self, a reverence for life and a search for the Middle Way to noninvolvement. Yet his modern disciples are everywhere involved in the turmoil of their times. In Ceylon, a Buddhist monk assassinated one Prime Minister, and Buddhist ward politicians turned another out of office. In Viet Nam, the grisly silhouette of a Buddhist toppling in flames of protest has symbolized the Buddhists' own private wars against one Saigon government after another...
Headed Off at the Pass. If in Japan, Ceylon and Viet Nam the Buddhists are on the march, in Communist China and Burma they have been headed off at the pass. Peking has assiduously emasculated Buddhism in China, emptying it of its religious content while retaining its temples as shrines to the "cultural creativity of the Chinese people under the feudal empires of the past." General Ne Win of Burma has used arrest and intimidation to undercut the young monks who crave political power, at the same time borrowing Buddhist principles to shape his "Burmese Way to Socialism...
Protestants are also stepping up the dialogue with Mecca. The World Council of Churches supports a continuing program of grass-roots-level contact with Moslems. It recently conducted an interfaith conference in Ceylon that was attended by Moslems; in Africa the Council helps finance seven minister-scholars who are specifically assigned "to inform African Christians about their Islamic neighbors...