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Ceylon was the last stop, and a surprising one. There the Pope was greeted by Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike and a crowd of at least 500,000. The country's highest ranking Buddhist monk was on hand to declare that the Pope's visit "will help all us Ceylonese to live like brothers." In his reply, Paul diplomatically praised the country's "courageous social policy...
...casual gallerygoer, Zen art might not appear vastly different from classical Oriental art and indeed is customarily exhibited as part of its main body without special classification. In fact, Zen is distinctive for two reasons: 1) it was created largely by Zen monks, who did not consider themselves primarily artists, to illustrate a philosophical Zen concept; 2) it had to be done with maximum spontaneity. In Zen, as opposed to the controlled symmetries of scholarly painting, the inky brush spatters and runs on the paper in a kind of ecstatic exuberance-a sort of Oriental forerunner of action painting...
...Chiden, is poised to whip a fish from a stream; the bird becomes a metaphor of the mind and its power to seize what is spiritually relevant. The monk Hakuin Ekaku meditated on a terrifying Buddhist deity and expressed that terror by simply "writing" the deity's name-the heavy strokes conveying a menace beyond what the ideograms spell out: "Blue-countenanced Bearer of the Thunderbolt." A swift sketch of two cackling women gets the inscription...
Pagodas of Sand. At 63, U Nu is opening yet another round in one of Asia's longest-running contests for power. The moonfaced, celibate Buddhist monk became the Union of Burma's first Premier when the country gained independence from Britain in 1948. He was gentle and compassionate, but he was also a sucker for a motley assortment of stargazers; one legendary day, presumably with appropriate astrological advice, he ordered 60,000 pagodas to be constructed-all of sand. The egregious corruption of his regime angered Burma's small middle class, and when he established Buddhism...
...Seven Storey Mountain, the best-selling 1948 autobiography that made a young Trappist monk named Thomas Merton a worldwide sensation, dealt with only part of a life that ended suddenly when Merton, studying Buddhism in Asia, was accidentally electrocuted in Bangkok in 1968. Edward Rice's ingenuous, openhearted memoir rounds out the 33 Mountain years and gives substantial shape to Merton's later years. As biography, the book is frankly worshipful...