Word: pagoda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deep as the grumbling of those apostles of ambiguity and anarchy, the Buddhists, who acidly objected to Premier Huong's ad monition that "a sharp line must be drawn between politics and religion." Obviously the supposedly unworldly Buddhists do not cherish the doctrine of the separation of Pagoda and State...
Delicate Inquiries. Suddenly Saigon's press blossomed with warnings that "in critical times religion cannot let the military and the politicians have a free hand in national affairs," and from the main pagoda in HuÉ, Buddhist priests began warning their followers that Buddhism faced "new threats," called on loyal Buddhists to defend the faith "against its enemies." Apart from the pressure on Huong to reshuffle his Cabinet to include direct Buddhist representation, other political factions were raising their voices. Disregarding a warning by Huong against public demonstrations, a noisy rally of the National Student Union concluded with...
Later, 2,000 Buddhists marched to a Saigon pagoda to mark the anniversary of the immolation of Thich Quang Due, the aged monk who was the first to burn himself alive in last summer's wave of anti-Diem Buddhist sacrifices. Hours before the service, a towering statue of Buddha on the banks of the Saigon River suddenly blazed up in flames. Within minutes, an awed crowd had gathered, murmuring that surely a miracle had occurred to commemorate Thich Quang Due's sacrifice. As it turned out, however, the statue was made of highly inflammable plastic...
...Indianapolis children's zoo contains a Japanese garden, with pagoda, pool and bridge, in which a collection of Japanese wildlife run free; a miniature train tours the grounds behind a replica of an 1863 locomotive; a walk-in whale has an aquarium in his stomach; there is an underwater glass panel for viewing submarine life and an underground panel to watch burrowing animals at work. An "elephant-rama" houses a baby elephant named Tumthong, bought with the nickels and dimes of 100,000 Indianapolis and Marion County schoolchildren. And of course there is a chicken hatchery-a staple...
Laotians rarely worry, but they are always concerned with the state of Vientiane's Thai Dam pagoda. They believe that the black Buddhist shrine is in reality a cork that holds back an evil demon. Last week, when flares arched over the Thai Dam and the rattle of rifle fire broke Vientiane's predawn quiet, many Laotians feared that the cork had come unstuck...