Word: pagoda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, as Sihanouk's articulate voice blared greetings from loudspeakers on pagoda rooftops, platoons of "congressmen," their credentials in order, congregated around the palace's ballet theater. The meeting was more in the nature of a mass rally than a formal legislative conclave, but Sihanouk, whose party had swept the last election (TIME, Sept. 26), thought it the best way to let his countrymen suggest laws and reforms. The crowd approved several constitutional changes proposed by the ex-King. One severed Cambodia's last legal bond of allegiance to France by striking from the constitution the words...
Just 18 months earlier, the same young men had stood in the "Peace Pagoda" in Panmunjom, Korea, and damned their country. They had spurned the pleas of the families they greeted so warmly last week, and had gone off happily behind another, more forbidding wall. Now, disillusioned with Communism, they had come home to face whatever penalty their native land would impose...
...North Sea flowed around Kublai's Green Mount (also called the Hill of Ten Thousand Years), converted it into an island serenely adorned by the White Pagoda, the Pavilion of Perpetual Southern Melodies, the Tower of Felicitous Skies, Wisdom's Fragrant Terrace...
Almost as soon as Father Roget reaches Indo-China as a French army chaplain, his religious certainties begin to waver. Riding through the crushing heat of the jungle to a front-line outpost, he passes a ruined pagoda, and is horrified by his sudden vision of his own God "dying in the grasp of the foul, green fungus, speckled with the disease of decay." At the front Colonel Lejeune, a magnificent soldier, tells him with cold insolence that he would have preferred reinforcements to a priest. The French are corroded by defeatism, many of the soldiers are themselves Communists...
...footprint said to be that of the eternal Buddha lies preserved within the Golden Pagoda at Luang Prabang the royal capital. It is believed to protect the Laotians from their enemies. Laos has been invaded by Tibetans, Mongols, Javanese Annamites, Indians, Chinese, Frenchmen and Khmers, but the craggy, mountainous state has survived with its ethnic unity just about intact. More than two-thirds of Its people are Laotians and related Thais. Its language is still its own native Thai. Its religion is still Buddhism. Even the French prefer to channel their rule through Laotian kings, and they have established their...