Word: monke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Asia"?though he is far more retiring and ascetic than Makarios. One of his Buddhist rivals insists that he is an anarchist. The Catholics are certain that he is a Communist. He has been variously described as a demagogue, a saint, a puppetmaster, a seer and "the mad monk...
...young monk, possessing nothing but his begging bowl, his robe and a pair of rubber sandals, went with Tri Do to Hanoi. There he caught sight of Ho Chi Minh and was swept by the fever for freedom from the French. In the years of war against Paris, the French suspected, probably rightly, that the lithe bonze with the burning eyes was helping Ho's Viet Minh front. They once jailed him for ten days on suspicion that he was a Communist, but they could not prove it?nor has anyone since, despite the taint of suspicion that still lingers...
...Perfect Conspirator." When the French were thrown out and President Ngo Dinh Diem took over in 1955, Tri Quang, in common with many of his brother monks, was hardly over joyed. For 80 years under the French, Catholicism had been nurtured at the expense of Buddhism, and a Catholic church occupied the choice site in every town. Catholic schools provided education that the Buddhists could not afford to match, and Catholic merchants and civil servants, thus equipped, inevitably prospered. To Tri Quang, the Catholic Diem was merely an extension of the worst ills of French rule. In the monk...
...seldom goes out. People come to him in a steady stream with reports, requests, gossip, rumors, intelligence. Clearly reveling in his game of political chess, he dispatches a Buddhist plenipotentiary to the resort city of Dalat, sends one of his attendant courier-monks with a message to the Vien Hoa Dao. Thich Tam Chau, secretary-general of the institute and nominally the senior monk in Viet Nam, comes by for lunch. Tam Chau, 44, once considered Tri Quang's rival, likes such creature comforts as his chauffeured Mercedes sedan. Tri Quang twits him about it, himself takes pedicabs about town...
...granted to Western newsmen, Thich Tri Quang talked for an hour last week with TIME Correspondents Frank McCulloch and James Wilde at his Saigon residence, a room in a maternity clinic. The interpreter was Than Trong Hue, a Vietnamese member of the TIME staff, who addressed the monk with the "venerable" title reserved for the Buddhist clergy. Tri Quang was clad in a hospital gown, white pantaloons, and brown leather sandals...