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When enlightenment first came to Gautama Buddha, 2,400 years ago, he was sitting under a Bo tree. Buddha's tree has been an object of reverence, ever since, and its offspring still stands amid ancient ruins at Anuradhapura, Ceylon, where it was brought in 246 B.C. Among Buddha's 150,000,000 followers word was spreading last week, however, that the sacred Bo was withering, and the prognosis looked bad. Adoring pilgrims knew only one thing to do: as generations of them had done before, they poured gallons of milk around its trunk...
...name was infinitely more imposing than his appearance. Fifty-six-year-old General Kaiser is a bare 5 ft. 2 in. tall. Nevertheless, he is a big man - a leader of fierce Nepalese troops in both World Wars, a noted archeologist honored by the French for digging around in Gautama Buddha's birthplace near Nepal's border. Between wars he was Nepal's Foreign Minister, mayor of Kathmandu and director general of archeology...
...Kandy's temple is one of Buddhism's holiest shrines. It is supposed to house a tooth of the Gautama Buddha, brought to Ceylon for safekeeping in the 4th Century. The Portuguese claim to have burned this relic in the market place at Goa in the 16th Century, and since then successive teeth have been stolen from the temple by other invaders. But pious Buddhists still believe that the enshrined relic, a chunk of ivory 20 times the size of an ordinary tooth, is the original...
...family on his lecture tours. They considerably spoil the conventional picture of New England's Transcendentalist-in-chief as shy, frail and retiring. Because Emerson was surrounded by people like volcanic bluestocking Margaret Fuller, semi-insane Greek Scholar Jones Very, zany Poet Ellery Channing and "this Gautama" Bronson Alcott, myth has made him one of them. His letters show he never wholly...
...petty North Indian rajah, clan-named Gautama, Buddha was born near the middle of the Sixth Century B. C., left home at 29, sat six years under a Bo tree, died...