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Hosted by the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR), the 44-year-old Buddhist monk will spend three days at Harvard, participating in a Divinity School seminar on "Buddhism and Society," attending a private reception at the CSWR and holding a press conference in the Faculty Club...
Despite the reverence in which he is held, the Dalai Lama does not regard himself as a god. "I am a human being: a Buddhist monk," he says. But he is the reincarnation of his predecessor and became Dalai Lama in the traditional way. At the age of two, he was found in a peasant's hut in Taktser after a long search during which monks used divinations and sought miraculous signs to reveal his whereabouts. They confirmed their discovery of reincarnation by having the child identify objects associated with his predecessor. All that traditional procedure could disappear...
...recording, not thinking." Christopher Isherwood wrote the lines 40 years ago in his novel Goodbye to Berlin. The author is about to celebrate his 75th birthday, and he is still clicking away. His latest book, titled My Guru and His Disciple, depicts his relationship with Swami Prabhavananda, a Hindu monk Isherwood first befriended in 1939. To be published early next year, the memoir takes care of what Isherwood calls his "sacred side." He is now working on a book about his "profane side"-his years as a Hollywood scriptwriter. Obviously this cameraman is partial to self-portraits...
Inflation was the real enemy, said Gordon, even more than energy. Firing the Cabinet was not that big a deal. Just like pro football, said Monk, a quarterback of long ago. If you don't win, get rid of the team. But what was really bothersome, said bill, was why Carter had not fired those men earlier. Why did somebody else have to tell Carter to fire his Cabinet, and who was that somebody-Hamilton Jordon? For a moment in the Ideal café it seemed as thought Machiavelli had met his equals...
...Considering his besmirched reputation in other respects, Rasputin would appear to be an unlikely hero to Soviet human rights activists. But at least one celebrated dissident has taken up his cause. Andrei Amalrik told TIME last week that he was writing a book on Rasputin that would show the monk had a good influence on Tsar Nicholas II. "Rasputin was a very simple person with very good ideas," said the exiled Russian writer, who is doing research at the Hoover Institution in Palo Alto, Calif. "He wanted equal rights for Jews, a separate peace with Germany in World...