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...first sermon 500 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...
...first picture of his wife, former Manhattanite Hope Cooke, 23, with their week-old son. Hope's son has no claim to the throne (the Maharajah's two sons by an earlier marriage will take care of that), but he got a consolation prize. The Dalai Lama is personally selecting his name...
Billions of Deities. During the 50-minute Buddhist ceremony, Hope sat on a throne slightly lower than that of the crown prince, who in turn was seated lower than his father, the 69-year-old Maharajah of Sikkim. After drinking tea laced with yak butter, a red-robed Buddhist lama in a flame-shaped hat invoked the blessings of the snow lions and billions of other Sikkimese deities. No wedding vows were spoken; the couple merely exchanged 12-ft.-long white silk scarves, which were hung around each other's neck to seal their marriage contract...
...saved many back copies. Randall now has 402 covers signed by subjects, among them Konrad Adenauer, Moise Tshombe, U.S. Astronaut Alan Shepard and Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, Marilyn Monroe (who signed in red ink), J. Paul Getty (who signed in black), and Tibet's Dalai Lama. Some of the signers send more than their autograph: John F. Kennedy enclosed an autographed picture with one of the two covers he signed; Abdul Karim Kassem (whose signature is a collector's item now), sent a copy of a speech he had just made; J. Edgar Hoover added some FBI pamphlets...
...valleys, which for years have been losing population to the towns and cities. There may soon be a Tibetan lamasery high in the Swiss Alps, and it is not inconceivable, in some future year, that a Swiss-Tibetan baby may prove to be a legitimate reincarnation of the Dalai Lama...