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From Osaka, the party drove to an ancient Buddhist temple at Nara, where priests offered Kennedy incense sticks, indicated a nearby bronze kettle where the sticks are traditionally burned by visitors. Kennedy motioned to accompanying Ambassador Edwin O. Reischauer. "What are the implications if I do this?" Replied the ambassador: "It just shows respect. Go ahead." "You're sure it won't look as if I'm worshiping Buddha?" asked Roman Catholic Kennedy. Whispered Reischauer: "No, It's O.K." Kennedy picked up an incense stick still muttering: "If I get kicked...
After an hour at the convent, Ethel's eleven-car motorcade headed off for a visit to a hospital for crippled children, then back to the embassy, where Ethel changed into a green suit (with matching hairbows) before lunch at Tokyo's Zen Buddhist Temple of the Green Pines. There, Japanese Politician Yasuhiro Nakasone had arranged for a three-hour, 13-course, all-vegetable meal. Kneeling in the approved fashion on a grass mat before a low table, Ethel accepted a set of Munakata prints and a pair of bamboo stilts-one of seven pairs that will...
...University of Southern California. He will also do some recording this year and give a few concerts. But he will never again be a traveling soloist. Says Heifetz: "It requires the nerves of a bullfighter, the vitality of a woman who runs a nightclub, and the concentration of a Buddhist monk...
Where the collection fails to be representative is in the works of the Ch'an (Zen) Buddhist monks which are noticeably sparse--no doubt because court and monastery failed to maintain close relations. Among the traditional scrolls of calligraphy there is an "Autobiographical Essay" by a monk which shows the Ch'an Buddhist application of Hsieh Ho's first principle. The characters appear like scribbles of a child among the stylized work of the emperors and scholars. A Zen counterpart in painting is the "Sage," a work by another monk. In a few rough, abrupt, sometimes unfinished brush strokes...
...landscapes are the most impressive expression of Chinese thought in the exhibit. Zen Buddhist sceptisism, denying man's rational ability to explain the meaning of the universe, also denies to the artist the possibility of capturing space with his brush. The sense of incompleteness one feels in the division of a hanging landscape scroll into planes separated by mysterious mists and clouds is a ploy to stimulate intuitive completion. Miss Waite '62 is writing her thesis on the dragon in Chinese art and civilization...