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...face of it Dorje Shugden is not an appealing prisoner of conscience. He is depicted--by friends--as a lightning-breathing terror with three bloodshot eyes, wreathed in the smoke of burning human flesh. In fact, however, as one of a pantheon of "protector deities," he exercises his wrath only in defense of a 350-year-old purist interpretation of the Dalai Lama's own Gelugpa branch of Tibetan Buddhism. For decades the High Lama himself included Shugden in his daily prayers. But in 1976 he began preaching against the god; in 1996 he discouraged Shugdenites' participation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monks vs. Monks | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

...lucid during class. Or maybe the entire experience would have been just dandy, had it not been for the Teaching Fellow from Hell. In short, you were duped. Wronged. Spurned. Maligned. Dropped into the dust heap of "Rank Group III". You are no longer dealing with a handful of wrath or a smattering of ill-will. Oh, no. The time has come for revenge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Get Out Your Pencils | 4/28/1998 | See Source »

...Westerners, his hooded eyes and severe demeanor, his unkempt gray beard and his black turban and robes conveyed an avenger's wrath. The image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

Khomeini was then the disciple of Iran's pre-eminent cleric, Ayatullah Mohammed Boroujerdi, a defender of the tradition of clerical deference to established power. But in 1962, after Boroujerdi's death, Khomeini revealed his long-hidden wrath and acquired a substantial following as a sharp-tongued antagonist of the Shah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...NINO'S WRATH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 16, 1998 | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

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