Word: monks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alsop slid versatilely from the pomposity of the Grand Duke to the kind-heartedness of the peasant Lavrenti. And Stephen Kent neatly changed gears from the obsequious Fat Prince to the macho Corporal to the doddering Old Man. However, Daniel Hershman was dismayingly flat, whether as the governor, monk, or Shauwa...
...year-old Buddhist monk's reception here was typical of the enthusiasm that followed him throughout the country. His address on "The Nature of Self" at Sanders Theater last Wednesday drew a crowd of over 1500, and the waiting list for tickets stretched into the hundreds. Over 200 graduate students and faculty members filled his seminar on "Buddhism and Society" given at the Divinity School the next day, and requests for interviews, audiences and autographs innundated him until he left Saturday afternoon for his home in exile in northern India...
...true Tibetan Buddhist monk need not wear maroon robes nor even be Tibetan, the Dalai Lama stressed. The external aspects of religion--the rituals and customs, the surface manifestations-- are peripheral from the true religious standpoint. "The emphasis is on essence," he said repeatedly during his visit. "All religions are basically the same," he added, "we are all seeking to grow spiritually...
Upon reaching the house, the monks greeted the owners, a farmer and his wife, and requested some tea. As they sat in the kitchen a two-year-old boy ran into the room and hopped onto a monk's lap. The boy correctly called the disguised traveler "a lama of Sera," and identified two other members of his party as well. The child, named Tenzin Gyatso, spoke to the lamas in the court dialect of Lhasa, unknown to anyone in his district...
...call myself a world citizen," the Dalai Lama said at his last press conference Friday. "Tibetans believe there are many worlds, and I am a citizen of this world. As a Buddhist monk, there are no boundaries in my mind, all countries are the same. All people are alike...