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10 The Bul!3i!, WechssJay, August 23, 1963 f v I ; !Til AFRICAN BISHOP VISITS Bishop Timothy Phelim O'Shea, pictured here with members of the order of the Little Sisteri of Saint Francis at his cathedral in Livingstone, was a visitor in Bend this week from North Rhodesia, Africa. Bishop O'Shea, who visited here with the Rev. William Coughlan and other priests of St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Parish, has been in Africa for more than 30 years. Northern Rhodesian bishop visits in Bend Bend had as a visitor this week an Irishman who, as bishop of Northern Rhodesia watches Uie spiritual welfare of Africans In a region covering 78,000 square miles. He is Bishop Timothy Phelim O'Shea, who has served the Ito man Catholic Church in Africa for the past 32 years and has been bishop for the past 13 years. He is the only Catholic bishop in his huge territory. Ills cathedral is in Livingstone, a city named for Da vid Livingstone, the English ex plorer who discovered the dark but spectacularly beautiful land of Rhodesia in 1855. Bishop O'Shea, on his first visit to the United States, is in this country In a plea for funds to build new churches and schools In his country, part of the Federa tion of Rhodesia and Nysaland in Central Africa. Bishop O'Shea, who visited with priests of St. Francis of Assis Par ish tills week, is to attend the Ecumenical Council in Rome, in Soptember. In Rhodesia, Bishop O'Shea founded a new order of Catholic nuns The Little Sisters of St. Francis. Bishop O'Shea is a member of the Franciscan Or- Thc visiting Bishop described his bishopric as a lonely, virtual ly inaccessible land in many areas, with travel confined to jeeps or by foot. Thero are few horses in Rhodesia they die from the so-called "horse sick ness." Tourists are beginning to filter into tiie land discovered by Liv ingstone more than a century ago. Bishop O'Shea noted. The prime attraction is the thundering Vic toria Falls on the Zambcsia Riv er, in Southern Rhodesia. It is the greatest natural spectacle in southern Africa. Television in review Alas, Middle East not what it used to be, Rick moans By Rick Du Brow UPI Staff Wrltir HOLLYWOOD (UPI) - Noth ing sets ma pulsating like the Middle East. I can see it all now the movies' George Sanders as a debonair foreign correspon dent, romancing exotic women, outsmarting the Nazis, staving off an Arab revolt and showing that there's no biz like news biz. Well, George is no longer a for eign correspondent, nnd tho re sult Is that the jnurnalim schools are having a tough time rounding up bright prospects. Alas, the Middle East isn't what is used to bo, either, as another foreign correspondent, A r n a 1 d o Laca gnina, mado clear Tuesday night in a wonderfully good-humored NBC-TV show titled "Report from Beirut." On the basis of the half-hour, Lacagnina doesn't spend much time outsmarting Nazis, but he spends somo time at tho beach and is quite an authority on the various pleasantries it has to of fer, from bikinis to morc-lra-diliooally veiled women. These and other aspects of tho East- West conflicts in the Lebanese city were the bnis of his droll, diverting and intelligently light tour. Before delving further into the matter at hand, perhaps this is as good a lime as any to pay a final kudo to the "Report From. . ." series before It departs from Its summer nm, By far tho two best summer series of Washington used to big crowds WASHINGTON (UPI) - This capital city is used to big crowds and Its police are expert at handling them. Upwards of 200,000 persons pour into the downtown area each July Fourth to see tho fireworks dis play on tho grounds of tho Wash ington Monument. Tho crowd nl ways manages to assemble and disperse with a minimum traffic jam. Perhaps tho largest crowds In Washington history were those at tending the inaugurals of Presi dent Harry S. Truman in l'.M9 and President Dwight D. Eisen hower in 1957. On both occasions, police estimated the crowd at more than one million persons. FILES FOR DIVORCE SANTA MONICA, Calif. (UPI Divorce action was under way today between singer Eartha Kilt and real estate investor William 0. McDonald. The Negro singer charged men tal cruelty In tho suit filed Tues day against her husband, a Cau casian. They were married June 1, 1W0, and have a 21-month-old daughter, Kitt. tills year are "Report From . . and the musical half-hour "The Lively Ones," which is having lis second go-round, also on NBC-TV. The astute camera showed us Lebanese trading, legislators, ro- ligious sects, traffic jams, mod em skyscrapers, desert tents on the beaches. As In all the "Re port From. . ." efforts, the wit boro tho distinctive brand of sa tirical comment that NBC news has become noted for, especially sinco tho rise of David Brinkly. Thus, Lacagnina noted that the favorilo Lebanese occupation is making money. He told of the boy who was asked how much five and five equaled. Am I buy ing or am I selling?" was the reply. There was a quick, well-edited shot of a "Merrill Lynch" brok erage sign that brought an un expected laugh for the message it Implied. And Lacagnina made clear several times that you could buy just almit anything in Beirut if you had tho rice. I think he's been watching Sand era loo. The Channel Swim: All two hours of NBC-TV's "Today" show for Oct. 3 will bo devoted to a snhiio to playwright-composor-nc- tor Noel Coward; guests include Hen Lime, Sally Ann Howes and Skitch Henderson . . . Complete sponsorship of "Today" and same network's "Tonight" program for Oct. 3 has been bought by Pont iae to introduce Its 1!H4 line. Shirley Templo is a guest when CBS-TVs Red Skeltnn returns Sept. 24. . .Ed Sullivan's seasonal premiere Sept. 2!) on same not work features Jimmy Durante, Frank Sinatra Jr. and Peter Law ford. . .NBC TV's first "Telephone Hour" of the fall, Oct. 8, offers Robert Preston, hallter star Ru dolf Nureyev and opera singers Anna Mol'lo and Richard Tucker. The Sept. 27 debut of CBS-TVs American history scries, "The Great Adventure." stars Jackie Cooper ami James MacArthur in a story of two Confederate offi cers who try to use a submarine to biv.'ik a Union bhvkaile. I'r i. J Ullll of events in South Viet Nam distressing to scholars of Buddhism By Lou's Catseli UPI Staff Writer Within the past two months, four monks and a nun have burned themselves to death in South Viet Nam to dramatize Buddhist grie vances against the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem. Their immolations have caused many newspaper readers in the West to associate buddhism with fiery self-destruction. This is an ironic turn of events, and very distressing to Buddhist scholars outside South Viet Nam. These scholars say that nothing could bo further from the true spirit of Buddhism than to take a lifo even one's own life in a political quarrel. Buddhism traditionally has been a gentle and unwordly religion, disdainful of political concerns. One of its basic tenets is an ex treme "reverence for life." Bud dhist monks even strain the water they drink to make sure they do not accidentally ingest and cause distress to somo small living thing. Buddhist scholars say that sui cide cannot bo squared with the teachings of the faith even if it is prompted by noblo and unselfish reasons. Buddhism has no central author ity which could rebuke Vietnamese monks for un-Buddhist tactics. A kick of formal organization is characteristic of this ancient faith No one even knows for sure how many Buddhists there are In South Viet Nam. Estimates range from 20 to 80 per cent of the popula tion, which totals 15 million. Buddhism comes in almost as many varieties as Christianity .. counting all of its sects and sub divisions, including the one called Zen which currently is enjoying a vogue among Western beatniks, there are about ISO million Bud dhists in the world. Tha main centers of Buddhism today are Japan, Korea, China, Mongolia, Tibet, Ceylon, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam. There are relatively few Bud dhists in India, where the religion originated 2,500 years ago as an offshoot of Hinduism. Its founder was an enormously wealthy Indian prince, Siddhar tha Guatama, who was born about 560 B.C. in a northern province about 100 miles from Benares. Legend says Guatama had three palaces and 40,000 dancing girls to amuse him. But he learned early in life that luxury did not lead to happiness. When he was about 29 years old, he abandoned his sumptuous life as a prince and went into the forest, dressed in rags, to seek enlightenment in the solitary life of a Hindu es cetic. No one ever practiced mortifi cation of the flesh with greater dedication than Guatama. He fast ed (eating one bean a day) until his spine could be seen through his shrunken stomach. But he found no answers to his questions ahmit life and concluded that ex treme asceticism was no better than luxury as a pathway to hap piness. After six years of futile search ing. Guatama seated himself one evening beneath the shade of a fig tree near the village of Gaya in northeast India. He vowed that he would sit there until he saw the light. According to Buddhist scriptures he remained for 49 days. He emerged from this experience as the Buddha, or "the enlightened one." For the next 45 years, he walked from one Indian village to another, sharing his new insights with all who would listen, and founding an order of monks tn naca nn his message. He died at the age of 80 after eating some poisoned mushrooms that had got ten into a dish by accident. Buddha's original teachings con stitute a philosophy of life rather than a religion. He taught that human life is characterized by suffering, and the basic cause of suffering Is "tanha," a word which is often translated as "de sire" but which actually connotes selfish craving, the tendency in every person to seek his own pri vate happiness. To break free from slavery to "tanha," Buddha said men must follow "the eightfold path" of right knowledge, right aspiration, right speech, right behavior, right occu pation, right effort, right thinking and right absorption. Under each of these eight head ings, he laid down rules for rigo rous self - discipline. Buddhists forbidden to lie. steal or kill any living creature, including ani mals and insects. They were ai lmrprf tn eat onlv what thev could beg, and then just enough to keep the body alive and lunetiomng. Alcoholic beverages and sex re lations were strictly forbidden. niuMha said this monastic wav of life, if earnestly practiced, would eventually ieaa nir vana." Exactly what he meant by this much-abused term is hard to determine from his authenticated sayings. At times, he seems to think of nirvana as a state of nothingness, a final blottine cut of human individuality (and hence of the selfish cravings which cause suffering.) At other points, he speaks of nirvana in terms com parable to those which a Chris tian mystic might use to describe ecstatic union with God. It is sometimes said that Buddha was an atheist, because there are no direct references in his teach ing to a personal God. 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