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...know lots of languages," the lanky, boyish-looking speaker assured an enraptured audience in New York's Town Hall last week. "I can talk to trees. And I do pretty well talking Holyman. You must be able to speak first to an amoeba, your father, a madman, Buddha, your lover...
THUS, in a cover story on Buddhism 16 months ago, did the editors appraise the little-known, shadowy figure who last week emerged-big. That earlier story, "Buddha on the Barricades," examined the faith and its activist-passivist syndrome and warned that it is a force to be reckoned with. With the reckoning now nearer at hand, Tri Quang became the cover this week...
...South Viet Nam's most extraordinary men. As a result of the power and discipline he displayed in last week's events, one thing became eminently clear: South Viet Nam's political future for some time to come will be very much influenced by a servant of Buddha, the Venerable Tri Quang...
...centered theology that skirts the question of God raises more questions than it answers. Does it not run the risk of slipping into a variety of ethical humanism? And if Jesus is not clearly related in some way to God, why is he a better focus of faith than Buddha, Socrates or even Albert Camus? Rather than accept this alternative, a majority of Christians would presumably prefer to stay with the traditional language of revelation at any cost. And it is not merely conservative evangelists who believe that the words and ideas of Scripture have lost neither relevance nor meaning...
...During the 9th century, statues of healing Buddhas became popular. The 5-ft.-tall Yakushi Nyorai (see opposite page, center) is the most important survivor of the Gangō-ji temple near Nara, once Japan's foremost city. Yet, for all the sanctity surrounding it, this Japanese statue is a bold departure from traditional Chinese elegance. In this Buddha's broad shoulders, strength replaces softness. Carved from a single block of cypress, the sculpture seems to derive its rippling drapery from the wood's grain...