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...grizzled old Buddhist Wizard of Kalimpong specializes in freeing the struggling spirits of the dying. This he accomplishes by sticking a hollow tube down the dying man's throat to provide a spiritual exit; at the same time the Wizard toots a horn made of a human thigh bone. The Wizard might be thought eccentric elsewhere, but not in Kalimpong (pop. 8,800), a zany Indian town straddling a 4,000-foot ridge in the Himalayan foothills...
...recent Kalimpong acquisition is the Young Men's Buddhist Association. It was modeled after the Y.M.C.A. by its founder, former British Army Colonel John Ryan, now a Buddhist priest. Ryan, who pinch-hits as American propagandist, giving weekly showings of U.S. Information Service movies in the town hall, embraces the Hinayana or southern variety of Buddhism...
...Better Birth? Another Kalimpong Buddhist keeps busy driving an obstinate goat around a pile of prayer stones, hoping to assure the ungrateful animal a better birth-perhaps even human-in its next incarnation. The daily grind for U.S. Scholar Joseph Rock, who was chased out of China by the Reds and settled in Kalimpong, consists of work on a new system of spelling Tibet's tongue-twisting place names. Austrian Baron Rene Nebesky, who helps Rock, is boning up on Tibetan demonology...
Kalimpong's main social center is the Himalayan Hotel, operated by the Mac-Donalds, a jovial Scottish-Tibetan family, who organize Saturday night parties liberally spiced with unusual conversation and hot millet beer. On one recent occasion, in the dining room, a Buddhist Englishwoman thought that she recognized another woman guest. "I beg your pardon," she said, "but haven't we met in a previous incarnation?" "Yes," was the reply, "I believe we have. I was Joan of Arc and you were my brother." The Englishwoman drew herself up haughtily. 'Certainly not," she snapped, "I have never...
Since India would not go beyond indignant remonstrance with Peking (see below), some Tibetans talked of an appeal to the U.N. So far, the only outside help came from Calcutta. There a group of lamas staged a weeklong, nonstop recitation of Buddhist scriptures and prayers for peace. They then paraded through the streets beating drums, blowing 15-foot-long conches, and sprinkling holy water on the faithful...