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...operating in Rangoon and a center in Colombo to train missionaries. A report of the British Missionaries Societies to the British Council of Churches last week warned Christians that "Buddhism has been roused by the recent celebration of the 2,500th anniversary of the death of the Buddha, by the meeting of the [Sixth World Buddhist] Council in Rangoon, and also by the deep fear in Asia of [nuclear] war . . . Buddhist leaders are calling Buddhists to support a world mission to save men from Christianity which, they say, has failed to prevent the so-called Christian nations of the West...
...effort to capture this quality of inner release in stone permeates Indian sculpture, whether in the trancelike images of Buddha that reached their peak in the 4th-to-5th centuries, or later in the undulating figures that encrust the great Hindu temple buildings of the null centuries. One such temple figure, Worshiping Goddess, although now defaced and devoid of some of its multiple arms and symbols, would still speak to the devout. Her ample breasts and hips hark back to primitive man's fertility figures; her divine power is shown by her effortless grace as she sways...
Died. Chang Chia Hutukhtu, 64, among the most important "Living Buddhas" (not to be confused with Baltimore resident Dilowa Hutukhtu who defended Far East expert Owen Lattimore in 1950 against charges of aiding Communists in China, and who is known as the "Living Buddha of Mongolia"), spiritual leader of thousands of monks and millions of Buddhists in east and north China but outranked by Tibet's Dalai and Panchen Lamas; of cancer; in Taipeh. He went to Taiwan seven years ago, served as senior adviser to Chiang Kaishek. His followers, with clues Chang wrote down just before he died...
Hardest campaigner of all was Pibulsonggram himself. An ardent admirer of U.S. political methods, the 59-year-old Premier zipped about the country in his green Thunderbird, handing out boxes of "Pibul matches" and replicas of his personal Buddha charm. Since Pibul's countrymen reckon that any man who has survived one kidnaping, two attempted assassinations by snooting and one by poisoning must have supernatural luck, the charm went over...
...Holy See was at Tanyin. A pope and female cardinals. Prophecy by planchette. Saint Victor Hugo. Christ and Buddha looking down from the roof of the cathedral on a Walt Disney fantasia of the East, dragons and snakes in Technicolor...