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...odds-on favorite in Oregon, was still in Saigon, presiding over U.S. efforts to win the war there, consulting with visiting Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and General Maxwell Taylor, taking time for a dip in the pool at the Saigon Sports Club, and staying as silent as any Buddhist idol about his political plans...
Again, the Buddhists. During a two-hour conference with McNamara, Khanh reported still another problem: lingering animosity between his country's Buddhists and Roman Catholics, which has been fanned anew by Buddhist demands that a former Catholic army officer who had served under the late President Diem be executed for ordering troops to fire on Buddhists demonstrating in Hue last May.* Last week the progovernment head of the Buddhists' political bureau, Thich Tarn Chau, resigned, charging other monks with trying to stir up trouble. The resignation meant increasing influence for another leading monk, Thich Tri Quang, who enjoyed...
Lodge got to Saigon just as the Diem regime was afflicted with what Mme. Nhu rather indelicately referred to as the "Buddhist barbecues." There are those today who argue that Lodge, as the chief instrument for carrying out the policies of a Democratic Administration in South Viet Nam, cannot reasonably be the Republican presidential nominee. If that is the case, Lodge does not want the nomination, for he fully associates himself with the Kennedy and Johnson policies. Says he: "My attitude was and is exactly the same as that articulated by President Kennedy, which is to say that...
...NEPAL-Asia House, 112 East 64th. The first major exhibition of Nepalese art spans 14 centuries. Limestone sculptures of classical simplicity, gilded idols adorned with precious stones, elaborate cloth paintings of mandalas, the Buddhist diagram for spiritual reintegration. Through...
...results for the devout Tantric Buddhist are frenzies of mystical ecstasy. By absorbing the image entirely so that the mind can re-create and understand its every detail, the worshiper has transcended all life, even the image, and is well on his way to nirvana-leaving his art behind...