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...scarred with the earth's most challenging peaks, few Asians consider climbing a sport. To them, the exploits of such men as Sir Edmund Hillary are part of an outlandish philosophy; they would never climb Everest simply "because it is there." Often enough in the high Himalayas, devout Buddhists scramble and scratch their way to the top of middling high peaks-but for a perfectly practical reason: those who make such a pilgrimage earn unlimited credit in the eyes of their gods...
...hours of reciting aloud the 14,804 pages of the Tipitakas,† the Buddhist scriptures. They sat in a "cave"-a vast jumble of rough boulders on the outside, and a blue, gold and scarlet auditorium within (capacity: 15,000), which was built by Burma's devout Premier U Nu to house the Sixth Buddhist World Council (TIME, June 7, 1954). The council has been going on for two years in this facsimile of a real cave (where the first council was held in 483 B.C.). The monks' chant will end next week on Visakha...
...devout and earnest Christian prayer is worth more in the healing of the human mind and heart than all the bunk-shooting of all the psychoanalysts in the world...
...last week donations and sightseers alike were pouring into the newly wealthy temple. But in his diabolical way the goat was still busy. In forgotten temples all over the land, to the consternation of the devout, Buddhists were hacking away hopefully and irreverently at any plaster Buddhas they could find...
...literary games, few are more exacting than Proustmanship. Questions of who really wrote Shakespeare or what Joyce's Finnegans Wake means are of no interest to the devout Proustman, who spends his life, like a woodpecker on a forest giant, working his way up and down the Master's monolithic novel, Remembrance of Things Past. As the Proustman has more than a million words and hundreds of characters to examine, he has had reason to be thankful that the Master left but a single major tome behind...