Word: monke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bhutanese tapestries and wall paintings are a blend of Buddhism, Hinduism and Bon, the country's original cult of sorcery and spirit worship. There is little in them to distinguish today from yesterday. Works are not dated; subject matter is part of a continuous tradition handed down from monk to monk, generation to generation. Often the meaning of the centuries-old silk tapestries is obscure. The Mystic Spiral, intended for monastic meditation, is a vision whose precise symbolism is known only to a few learned lamas. To the Western viewer, its concentric circles, drawing him into a dizzying infinity...
...threatened to renew his campaign of "nonviolent opposition"-which in Tri Quang's lexicon means anything from mobs of rock-throwing youths in Saigon streets to a full-scale attempt at a coup d'état. But Thieu and Ky are confident that they have the dissident monk under control. "My duty," says Ky bluntly, "is to crush all disturbances of whatever origin...
...vertically means "work"; the index fingers and thumbs formed into a diamond signifies "bread." But in today's complex world, with Trappists operating farms and small industries, sign language is not enough. Says one Catholic prelate: "A few years ago we still used horses, but how is a monk supposed to explain a breakdown of his tractor to a mechanic in sign language...
...stride stylists influenced a line of jazz pianists from Duke Ellington and Count Basic to such modernists as John Lewis and Theolonious Monk. Yet the stride heritage is waning fast, and the Lion is as outspoken on the subject as he is on everything else. "A good many modern pianists," he snorts, "tinkle with their left hand while their right is going nowhere. Modern style, they call it; I call it cheating." But of course he is prejudiced. "There's nothing more beautiful," he believes, "than a two-fisted pianist...
...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...