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When Burma's nine-sided civil war degenerated into chaos last July, devout Buddhist Prime Minister Thakin Nu launched a "Peace Within One Year" campaign. Not even his followers placed much hope in it. But the combination of piety and punch paid off surprisingly well...
...misery of forms, identification cards, curfews and rigid interrogations. The tricky job of making the police behave is in well-intentioned hands, however. Dr. Sung Wook Paik, the Home Minister, cracks down hard on any of his cops in whose districts the people are not properly maintaining a Buddhist temple. Says Dr. Paik to his police: "Every man must first come to an understanding of spiritual reality. And all of us must order our actions as if Shakya-muni [Buddha] were on the earth...
Chin and Kachin guerrillas. But in the Irrawaddy valley and along the Rangoon-Mandalay railway line, it has made more progress in the past month than in the previous year. Prime Minister Thakin Nu has said that as soon as Bur,ma is pacified he will become a Buddhist monk. He may possibly have his wish...
...half of the 19th. Century, the French converted Indo-China into a tight, profitable colonial monopoly. They explored its fever-laden jungles, lofty ranges, great river valleys. They discovered its antiquities, including the majestic loth Century towers of Angkor Wat in northern Cambodia. They wrote about its mandarins, its Buddhist temples and Confucian family life...
Subversive Toleration. Dr. Stokes credits the first experiment in religious freedom to India's Buddhist King Asoka in the 3rd Century B.C. But liberal King Asoka started no popular trend. Even Plato, himself a nonconformist, recommended five years in jail for dissenters from the state religion. The persecuted Christians of the first centuries had no opportunity for anything but separation from the state. But with the coming of the Middle Ages the church adopted what Author Stokes calls the "Ecclesiastical Domination plan," which reached its height with Emperor Henry IV's famed barefoot repentance before Pope Gregory...