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Jerry: We'll always have Monk...
...Elaine: Monk's? The coffee shop...
...DELHI: The Dalai Lama, who arrives in New York next week, is a worried man: His path of nonconfrontation with China has won nothing from Beijing, which has led Tibetans to take drastic steps. A 50-year-old Tibetan monk died Wednesday of burns sustained when he set himself alight on Monday. Thupten Ngodup?s self-immolation was a protest against Indian police intervention to stop a Tibetan hunger strike...
Soon Ho was roaming the earth as a covert agent for Moscow. Disguised as a Chinese journalist or a Buddhist monk, he would surface in Canton, Rangoon or Calcutta--then vanish to nurse his tuberculosis and other chronic diseases. As befit a professional conspirator, he employed a baffling assortment of aliases. Again and again, he was reported dead, only to pop up in a new place. In 1929 he assembled a few militants in Hong Kong and formed the Indochinese Communist Party. He portrayed himself as a celibate, a pose calculated to epitomize his moral fiber...
Duncan Williams, a half-Japanese, ordained Buddhist monk who is co-editing "American Buddhists" with Queen, says Asian circumspection about Buddhism stems in part from the religion's traditional roots. He says some see it as an impediment to assimilating into "mainstream, Christian, American culture...