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With the Communists closing in, Catholic priests and Buddhist monks gathered at the Basilica, Saigon's cathedral, for the first joint service in the history of South Viet Nam. Prayers were offered to Buddha, in the words of one monk, "to seek harmony and protect and help the Vietnamese people. It would be very good to help us sufferers...
...assumed the directorship of the newly built Atomic Bomb Memorial Hospital in 1956. But he still found time to treat bomb victims. "I'm a bedside physician," he said. "It's my duty to do all I can for them." His patients were reassured by his calm, Buddha-like demeanor. Said a woman suffering from a bomb-induced cancer, "I feel relieved each time he even smiles...
...shrine or temple for each of the 500,000 people who live in Kathmandu. These shrines honor a mixture of Hindu and Buddhist deities, since the Valley of Nepal is an overlapping spot for the two religions. Although traditional Indian and Hindu influences dominate, there are strong Buddhist beliefs-Buddha was born in the Nepalese lowlands and some of the holiest Buddhist stupas (shrines with relics) are in the Valley of Nepal...
...cabaret license. The reason was not that he said things like "Filipinos come quick" or "Are there any niggers out there tonight," but that his satire was directed against the wrong culture and the wrong god. It would have been fine to make fun of the fat, funny Buddha, the god who's sold in Chinatown as a piggy bank. After all, did anyone ever bring Jerry Lewis to court for his buck teeth imitation of the Japanese? But Bruce made the mistake of choosing the Western god, the "right" god, as target, and that was criminal...
...Jane Eyre). Finally there was Huxley the culture-explosion sage of the '50s and early '60s. Often in mousy tweed and what looked like a snakeskin tie, he toured campuses and symposia, discoursing in silvery tones on coming ecological di sasters, overpopulation, Shakespeare and the way of the Buddha...