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Next, Souvanna presented his 19-man Cabinet to the King, and then took them across the muddy street to Vientiane's principal pagoda, Sisaket Wat, for the swearing-in ceremony. Sitting crosslegged on carpets before a huge gilded Buddha, the new Cabinet prayed while saffron-robed monks intoned the oath of office. Of Vientiane's estimated 60,000 people, only an apathetic 400 gathered to watch...
From Rangoon's golden Shwe Dagon Pagoda, glistening under the monsoon rains, came the deep, resonant voice of Maha Ganda, the 25-ton bronze merit gong, notifying the worlds of spirit and man alike that a noble deed had been accomplished. Exactly 2,202 years after Buddhism was introduced within its borders, Burma reverted to the ways of its ancient kings and adopted Buddhism as its state religion...
...concert hall, he seemed completely at home in the theater, drawing all the score's turbulence from the orchestra without trying to make it the star of the show at the singers' expense. Cecil Beaton contributed dazzling if hardly daring sets, notably a kind of winged pagoda against a distant, unreal blue sky, which suggested that Turandot is not set in a real China but in an exotic region of the mind...
...nearby Agra), Banaras (for its burning funeral ghats) and Calcutta (famed for slums and the Black Hole). Many tourist wonders lie off the beaten track but lack good hotels. Exceptions: the rose-pink city of Jaipur and Purion the Bay of Bengal, only 18 miles from the Black Pagoda at Konarak, famed for its delicately erotic carvings of gods and goddesses. Malaya is orderly and well-kept, almost resembling a rural England with tropical trimmings, and has 30 golf courses and fine beaches where the swimming is made more exciting by the presence of poisonous water snakes. Singapore still boasts...
...unusual instructions. "When I die," he said, "do not bury my body, but seal it in an urn. After three years, open the urn, and if my body has decayed, bury it in the ground. But if it has not, encase it in gold and place it in a pagoda...