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The smiling, big-bellied figure people call the Buddha isn’t the Buddha at all. He’s Budai, a wandering Zen monk who lived ...

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Some Buddhists asserted that, though a Buddhist king should be committed to non-violence, he might be called upon to cancel ...

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