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What about Red Chinese brutality in Tibet and the suppression of the Buddhist religion? "I could have asked," conceded Monty, "but I didn't want to. I'm very friendly with Mao Tse-tung, and I didn't want to irritate him in any way. I wanted to find out what was going on in China. What was going on in Tibet to me was unimportant at the moment." Not only does Monty want Red China in the U.N., he is all for handing over Formosa to the Communists. But what about the 10 million Formosans-shouldn...
...Sabbaths. All non-Buddhists are guaranteed religious and political protection, but Buddhism will be taught in state schools and teacher-training colleges. The biggest change: Buddhist sabbath days, which roughly correspond to the four phases of the moon, will be official holidays during which offices, schools and all bars must close...
Weakened Bands. Unlike their easygoing Lao neighbors (and fellow Buddhists), Burma's soldiers are willing and able to fight, despite the Buddhist scruple against killing. Buddhism is full of loopholes for those who chose to find them: who, for instance, is to blame if a fish dies after the fisherman has rescued it from the wetness in the river...
...categorically cashmere sweater and flannel skirt. Claire was fascinated by the intense, 34-year-old author, and visited him several times in Cornish. She soothed her family with a story that showed close attention to the master's style: Salinger lived, she said, with his mother, sister, 15 Buddhist monks, and a yogi who stood on his head. The girl discovered mysticism. "She was hung on the Jesus Prayer." recalls her brother Gavin, a wandering movie photographer. "Jerry is very good at hanging people on things...
...author apparently listens now and then behind his locked door, because in Seymour, an Introduction, his fictional alter ego refers to "poignant get-well-soon notes from old readers of mine who have somewhere picked up the bogus information that I spend six months of the year in a Buddhist monastery and the other six in a mental institution." One source of bogus information is the author himself; in the jacket blurb for Franny and Zooey, which he wrote himself, he says with coy fraudulence that "I live in Westport with my dog." The dark facts are that...