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...welding of temple and state, voted as a constitutional amendment by a joint session of Parliament, was the fulfillment of a campaign pledge that U Nu made 22 months ago to Burma's 20 million people, 85% of whom are Buddhist. It was bitterly opposed by religious minority groups-Moslems, the Animist Kachins, the Christian Chins-and by Buddhists in separatist-minded Karen and Shan states. But the amendment passed by a landslide 324-to-28 vote. Before he left for the neutralist meeting in Belgrade, ascetic Prime Minister U Nu, who three years ago took the vows...
...chief. "I returned her to the States. This pleased many people, not because they disliked the woman, but because they wanted the right to have their own way of life recognized." In a similar vein, the corpsmen learned the proper way for a woman to offer cigarettes to a Buddhist priest: put the pack on a rock, since the priests cannot receive anything directly from female hands. ¶ It is not always necessary to observe local customs, but it is always advisable to find a graceful way of refusing. "The people in this area were polygamous. They wanted...
Daiei, a serious company that also made Gate of Hell, Ugetsu, and Rashomon, is trying to do something more than ring the box-office gong. Scores of Buddhist monks and scholars have been hired to guide Director Kenji Misumi through the life of the young Indian prince who, in the 6th century B.C., turned away from worldly pleasure to seek enlightenment of the soul. The advisers are trying to keep the sex in balance with the substance, the taste with the tasty; and Buddha himself -played by 23-year-old Rising Son Kojiro Hongo-will only appear in the flesh...
Buddha's general adviser is Hideo Kimura, professor of Primitive Indian culture at the Buddhist Ryukoku University. Objectively summing up his work, the professor said last week: "I think it is a good picture, and it will not offend devout Buddhists. As for the mass of Japanese people, they are not devout enough to be offended." They just like movies...
Making a quieter impression than the jazz-blowing defender of his Buddhist faith, Thailand's King Bhumibol, Somdej Phra Ariyawongsalcottayarn Phra Sangharaja, the Supreme Patriarch of Thailand, landed in Manhattan last week after junketing austerely across the U.S. Paying typical tourist obeisance to the Himalayan-high Empire State Building, he padded sandal-clad and saffron-robed around the 86th-floor observation platform, noted the artifacts of Western civilization-but few of his flock. "I have seen many people in this country who are interested in Buddhism," commented His Holiness, "but not too many...