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...members listened gravely to their leaders (two well-educated robbers) and solemnly passed a resolution, proposed by a Buddhist monk, which censured the Government for using batons in breaking up Communist demonstrations, and arresting demonstrators before their wounds had healed. The prisoners warned that if the Government did not meet its demands, the union would not be responsible for unrest in the jail...
...Hiroshige shaved his head, became a Buddhist novice. But he kept on traveling and making prints of the sights of Japan (Thirty-Six Views of Fuji, etc.). Eleven years later, mortally sick with cholera, the master wrote a cheerful poem to celebrate his departure to the Buddhist Heaven...
...preserve the best of both East and West for himself and his fellow Annamites. Even now his wife was in France, where his two fair-skinned daughters, whose photographs stood on his ordered desk, were in school. Dr. Thinh summed up his schizoid philosophy by calling himself a Buddhist Socialist...
...evening. Dr. Thinh took down a French medical book from a row in his small private office, opened it to a chapter on hangings. Then he took a piece of thin copper wire, twisted it into a neat noose. Next morning, Buddhist Thinh, in whose religion suicide is the supreme reproach against unjust criticism, was found dead...
They . . . believe that in the U.S.A. they have a true and permanent homeland where, together with their Christian, Mohammedan, Buddhist and atheist fellow Americans they may live, worship and serve as free and equal citizens. They believe that until that condition is possible in every nation, the problem of D.P. s will not be solved. The problem "is only as hard as man's heart...