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After Sariputta and Moggallana died (about 480 B.C.), their bones were preserved inside two stupas (large stone monuments) at Sanchi in central India, which became a center of Buddhist pilgrimages. Later generations of Buddhists neglected them, but in 1851 a British military engineer found the bones and sent them to London. They were bought by the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the caskets containing the bones remained on view there for almost a half century...
...eight Asiatic countries were on hand, among them Burma's pious Premier U Nu. Before a reverent crowd of 100,000, the bones, encased in glass, were carried up to a new stupa, built on a hilltop near the old ruins. Then, while saffron-robed monks chanted Buddhist litanies, the remains of the honored disciples Sariputta and Moggallana were laid to rest...
...cook tempura (Japanese fried fish or shrimps) and declared that "all American women on Corregidor should be turned over to the Japanese for immoral purposes." Once, said Brown, he followed Provoo to the top of a hill where Provoo, clad in a shroud, "let out those wild Buddhist chants...
...witness after bitter witness testified against him, Provoo sat in court, writhing at the accusations. He was heard frequently to mutter curses under his breath-or possibly one of those wild Buddhist chants...
What About Hashish? When the lecture was over, Dr. Helai asked for questions. From both newsmen and Heretics came a barrage. What was the Buddhist attitude toward opium? What about hashish? Could the good Doctor provide a sample of opium? To the last question, Dr. Helai calmly replied that if the chairman of the meeting would examine the cigarette he had given him, he would find that it bore no manufacturer's mark. The dazed chairman took a nervous look at his cigarette and hastily scrunched...