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Though Gray says Maharishi told him, "In 10 years you will own this movement," Gray eventually left TM and moved to California. By then, as Gray is fond of saying, he had been a "celibate monk" for nine years. "Sex became my new ecstasy," he says. After a few months of sleeping with a lot of women, including the woman who is now his wife Bonnie, he married his first wife, Barbara De Angelis, who has herself become a self-help guru, the author of How to Make Love All the Time, among other books. The two began giving...
SENTENCED. CHADREL RINPOCHE, 58, high-ranking Tibetan monk accused of leaking information to the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader; to six years in prison; on charges of disclosing state secrets and conspiracy to split China; in Xigaze, Tibet. Chadrel is a casualty of China's determination to assert its authority over Tibet's spiritual life...
...cover. Their eyes aren't slanted--get a ruler and check. The teeth are simply elongated, just as the rest of their faces are, one of the most common techniques in caricatures. The President is serving coffee (get it?), not herbal tea. The Vice-President is wearing a Buddhist monk's attire and carrying a money-filled pauper's pot because, surprise, he solicited thousands of dollars at a Buddhist temple in California. The Clintons are wearing Chinese clothes because, when you go begging someone for money in Rome, you do as the Romans...
...racial bigotry. The cover of the March 24 issue of the National Review features the President, First Lady and Vice-President as Asian caricatures replete with buck teeth and slanted eyes. Each caricature wears Asian clothing: a traditional peasant garb, a Mao suit and the attire of a Buddhist monk, respectively...
...think of an event more contrived than the millennium, unless one accepts that history unfolds in tidy hundred- and thousand-year cycles beginning with the birth of Jesus Christ. Or, to be more precise, his briss, which the inventor of the Anno Domini system of reckoning, a Scythian monk named Dennis the Diminutive, calculated--surely errantly--to have taken place on Jan. 1, A.D. 1. At any rate, the history of the past thousand years shows that mass psychology--if not events themselves--tends to behave in predictable ways when multiple zeros loom on the calendar. So if not plagued...