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Word: gomboeveâ (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1964-1964
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...years before Christ. There some 150 Buddhist leaders from 25 nations gathered for the Seventh World Fellowship of Buddhists. Begun in 1950 as a kind of informal, monk-to-monk faith forum, this year's meeting often sounded more like a U.N. debate. Russia's Venerable Lama Jambal Dirji Gomboeve???representing 500,000 Soviet Buddhists living mostly in Asiatic Russia?urged the conference to "condemn provocations against the borders of Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos." Red China and its satellites, which brutally suppressed Buddhism but found plenty of tame monks to collaborate with the regimes, decided to boycott the meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Buddha on the Barricades | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

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