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...hold their largely Japanese-American membership-which yearly becomes more American and less Japanese-most congregations are turning from Japanese to English in their services, call themselves churches rather than temples to avoid identification with the occult. Services are held on Sunday, although all days are holy to Buddhists. The Buddhist Church of Seattle sponsors a Boy Scout troop, a day nursery, a Sunday school and a drum and bugle corps...
Sand Pagodas. General Ne Win's attitude toward Communism is somewhat ambivalent. In 1958, after he took over the government from mystical Premier U Nu, the general cracked down on the Reds. Two years ago, he stepped aside when U Nu overwhelmingly won a general election, but the Buddhist Premier ran the country so inefficiently and eccentrically (once he issued detailed orders for constructing 60,000 pagodas of sand in a single day) that Ne Win bounced back to power in a coup d'etat last March. He dissolved the Parliament and Supreme Court, and rules through...
...Colombo last week, a Buddhist monk and herbalist named Talduwe Somarama mounted a prison scaffold and was hanged. Somarama's crime: the 1959 assassination of Ceylon's Prime Minister Solomon W. R. D. Bandaranaike. In a confession he later retracted, Somarama said he committed the deed because the Prime Minister favored Western medical techniques over Oriental herb medicine. Prison officials reported that 24 hours before he was hanged, Somarama had himself baptized a Christian so that he could ask God for the forgiveness of sin that cannot be found in the Buddhist religion...
...company's employee welfare fund, which pays handsome benefits to workers upon retirement. But Idemitsu boasts that old workers are never pressured to retire and bad ones are never fired; even chronic drunkards are merely sent to dry out for a few months in a Buddhist monastery at company expense. A devout Shintoist and emperor worshiper himself, Idemitsu keeps a shrine in his conference room for praying in spare moments, and regularly leads new employees in a ceremonial bowing toward the Imperial Palace in Tokyo...
Then everything suddenly dissolved in Buddhist bliss. Sarit announced to a Cabinet meeting that a battle with Cambodia would be "fulfilling an objective of the Communists," and so Thailand will go along with the Hague court decision. This, he declared, was essential "to maintain our fine reputation in international affairs." After the Cabinet meeting, he told reporters: "We speak with tears. Many ministers wept...