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...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...
...time Cabinet minister, who during his service as Foreign Minister in World War II managed with great sangfroid to butter up Thailand's Japanese masters while at the same time holding a top post in the resistance movement against Japan, early in 1945 led a secret mission to Ceylon to confer with the Allied command about organizing a Free Thai uprising, and was later awarded the U.S. Medal of Freedom; of stomach cancer; in Bangkok...
...economics, both the United Arab Republic and Pakistan have huge pill programs. On training peasants, an Indian study says: "From field studies in Puerto Rico, Mexico and Ceylon, it has become evident that poorly educated women accept oral contraception enthusiastically and successfully. In that respect, Indian women are no different from their counterparts in other parts of the world...