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Busmanship. The chief sadhu and founder of the Kaliaboda math was an octogenarian, self-styled Pagala Baba (mad monk), who had achieved fame when he told a gathering that he was, at the moment of addressing them, also making a divinely simultaneous appearance in a bus traveling from Cuttack to Calcutta. On the basis of this success he claimed to be a personal incarnation of the Hindu god Brahma, and frequently threatened to destroy the universe. His worshipful believers included many rich people from Cuttack and a maharaja or two. Even the police, before breaking into the Kaliaboda math, respectfully...
Ever since Korea's crusty old President Syngman Rheer exploded at finding a Buddhist monk living in a temple with his wife and four children (TIME. Jan. 3), 500 celibate monks and 160 celibate nuns have looked forward to casting the 5,000-odd married monks from the best temples...
...American strategy in Asia. The author himself did not claim that the work was, strictly speaking, "scholarly." Within the following two months, however, Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern Languages, conclusively proved his scholarship with a detailed historical account of the wanderings of a ninth century Japanese monk, complete with a translation of the monk's diary. A two-volume work filled with 1,600 footnotes and maps of mountains and rivers that no longer exist, Ennin's Travels has been one of Reischauer's pursuits since 1935, when he first realized that the diary "is really history...
...mammoth task of bringing the musty treasures of the Vatican here [April 25]. Isn't most of the useful, worthwhile knowledge of the past fairly well represented in libraries throughout our country now? How many people do you think will feel a burning interest in a medieval monk's "musical notation," or even in the 4th century Codex Vaticanus? If there is such value in antiquity, why not transport the Sphinx pebble by pebble (or at least an Egyptian pyramid) and set it up in some suitable bare spot...
What would St. Finian have thought, he who is known as the "Teacher of the Irish Saints?" In the handsome Dublin church named for the great 6th century monk, a new pastor was preaching last week, and in his accents there was precious little of the Liffey. For a fact, the Rev. Hans Dietrich Mittorp was German, and a Lutheran at that-the first Lutheran pastor with a parish in Ireland for more than two centuries...