Zhou Enlai replied: ‘Mr President, I always apply Marxist-Leninist thinking, but also Buddhist thinking – a mixture of the two.’
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Master Xu Yun Did Not Teach or Advocate Japanese Zen
The venerable Xu Yun (who lived to 120 years old) was in attendance of this meeting when these monks arrived and made their case. He listened quietly to these monks and then hit his palm on the table in an angry manner. He stated that a Buddhist monk and his robe cannot be separated, and that in China, a Buddhist robe signifies the practice of both strict celibacy and vegetarianism – without the Vinaya Discipline – Chinese Buddhism simply would not make sense.
Three Woman Fighter Pilots Of Communist China
Communist China produces woman fighter pilots.
Taiwan’s White Terror Period 1949 – 1987
The murderous Nationalist regime came to power in China in 1911, over-throwing centuries of imperial rule. As it pursued a pro-Western policy of rapid modernisation
Abbot Yong Xin of the Shaolin Temple Discusses Master Xu Yun
Li Ji Shen referred this dispute to Zhou Enlai (who discussed it with Mao Zedong), and it was agreed that Xu Yun was correct. This decision was taken because at the time certain members of the international community were attacking China with regards to human rights issues. From that day onwards, traditional Chinese religion has been protected under law.
Freeing Tibet from the Western Imagination
‘On 25 April 1945, so the story goes, a group of battle-weary Russian soldiers were making their cautious way through the shattered remnants of Berlin,
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 