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141: Irwin Allen Ginsberg
... as 'Sunflower Sutra.' At a critical stage in his career, he somehow was able to avoid the 'fame burnout' that Kerouac fell pray too. Ginsberg mellowed considerably during this period, after travelling the world, discovering Buddhism and falling in love with Peter Orlovsky, who would remain a constant companion (though their relationship was not monogamous) for thirty years. Perhaps to rid himself of something Ginsberg wrote 'Kaddish,' a poem about his ...
142: Confucius in the Chinese History
... Bolin Lin More than any other scholar in China, Confucius laid down his ethic and educational thinking followed by more people for more generations than one can even conceive. No matter what religion, such as Buddhism and Taoism, no matter what form of governments since Han Dynasty, the Chinese can in some way be shown to have Confucian elements, including other East Asian civilizations, such as Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, etc ...
143: Yasujiro Ozu (1903--1963)
... europe and the american movi industry discovered his style his films started to show up in other countries and many critics has been done on his style. some critics compared Ozu's style with zen buddhism and some like Noel Burch said that Ozu rejected the hollywood style and the ideological aspects of hollywood. Apart from all these unusual style ozu's films are perfect melodramas with marrige life and death ...
144: The Life of Mao Zedong
... Hunan. 30 In his report, Mao pays tribute to the peasants for selectively relying on Chinese traditions of order, harmony, and filial piety. While praising the peasants for abandoning the worship of Gods and rejecting Buddhism, he congratulates the peasants puritan prohibitions against gambling and drinking wine. Although the peasants rejected "the traditional Buddhist religion" by spurning idols, Mao praises the peasants for saving certain idols such as, a statue of ...
145: Bangkok's Thammasat University Uprising
... 19th century. Fearing Britain and France would gobble up his sprawling territory, the King began to clearly demarcate the boundaries and conceptualised Thailand as one nation -- with one race, one king and one version of Buddhism. In the process, the ruler ignored the numerous ethnic groups in the country -- like the Khmer, Lao, Mon, Vietnamese, Malay and Chinese -- subsuming them under the broad category of 'Thai.' This cultural homogenisation continued under ...
146: The Mongol Invasion of China
... intimating in their subject matter ideas of protest against the alien rule. Chinese theater also made dramatic changes during the Mongol occupation. Plays that had previously been written for the expression of religious devotion to Buddhism began to appeal to the sympathy of a larger audience and aroused an ardent feeling of identification with the story being acted out. The subject matter of the Yόan plays is often taken from humbler ...
147: The Red Book and the Power Structure of Communist China
... The bible is not committed to memory by most Christians unlike the sutras which Buddhists learn long passages from. Mao followed in the footsteps of the Buddhist framework of religious organization. Under the Cultural Revolution Buddhism and Confucianism were wiped out, Red Guards destroyed Buddhist temples and tortured monks; but in this religious vacuum Mao placed himself as Buddha and his writings as Sutra's. The Red Book during the Cultural ...
148: Chinese Occupation of Tibet
... been avoided since the late 1940's. Chinese occupation in Tibet is one of the great tragedies in history. The Communist government is trying to completely erase the Tibetan culture. Since the Tibetan religion is Buddhism they have vowed to never hurt another living creature, and because of this they cannot fight back against the Chinese army. Tibetans can only practice their religion under extensive government watch and thousands of monasteries ...
149: Utopian Societies-The Impossible Dream
... on the other side of the world would want to conform to being a Christian, or Roman Catholic, or visa versa? I don't think so, I know I wouldn't do it. So having Buddhism as the religion in the utopian society would make it very non-utopian for me, and if the religion was Roman Catholic, even though that would be utopian for me it would be very non ...
150: Terrorism
... Mount Fuji. It contains five branches scattered among 130 sites. It's membership is estimated 10,000 in Japan, 30,000 in Russia and about 100 in Manhattan. They practice a doctrine of Hinduism and Buddhism and they follow a goddess named Shiva, lord of destruction and regeneration. They believe the world will end some time in 1997. They were the group responsible for the sarin gas attacks on Tokyo metro ...


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