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...Buddhist Sutra...
Buddhism is one of the most pervasive of all religions, and theologically one of the most accommodating. In the 2,500 years since Gautama Buddha first preached his doctrines in India, they have spread over Asia like a billowing saffron robe. In the process, Buddhist doctrines have been porous enough to admit and blend with local beliefs, such as spirit-worship in Burma, Confucianism in China, and the ancestor worship of Japanese Shinto...
...Nagasaki. In memory of the atom-bomb dead, Nagasaki citizens bowed their heads, closed their eyes, prayed. Temple bells rang, civic leaders spoke. That night thousands of small lanterns, each with a candle burning in it, floated down the river which runs through the center of Nagasaki. In Buddhist faith, each candle consoled a soul lost in the atom blast...
...fight off the charges of apostasy made against him by literal-minded fellow priests. Similar missionary techniques were used earlier in the century by Jesuits in China, who followed the dress and manners of local Confucian scholars, and by Jesuits in Japan, who modeled their behavior on that of Buddhist priests...
Three Months of Begging. Sixty-five thousand saffron-robed bonzes (Buddhist priests) and the 12,000-man Khmer army welcomed him home. Dutifully he shaved his head and begged for his living for three months as custom prescribed. But the King was determined to emancipate Cambodia from the semifeudal monarchy under which it had slumbered for centuries. He pushed through a program of constitutional reforms which transformed his kingdom from an absolute into a parliamentary monarchy under French protection. Cambodians freely elected their own 75-man National Assembly...