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a me by my holy bmthu--AM evm lam with thc discovery (or dullmouthed
amad hang-middlcd mindburnt waking re dismcq) of Buddhism,
A-Amucd nxokdm mat from thc very beginning I, whoever T
or vhaew T was, was destined, destined ided, to ma, LCM, UndQIWd
DPardandSlwndthc~LordB!ddha~andmvSlvc
dhu~f~~l~sandblood~-ofhCDjYnYi~!en~~)-~o~~~hnm
faith in the bnghl w truk All is Wcll, practice Kindnac, Heawn is nigh.... I
addbshmd and CornP&;i& Mty, in N i (appamncc) Kay. (form)-
My Own brother, a Spot of Sahthood thc RldlCSd gl0bUh UNVWSM and
-m-n
Koarac hat is dexibing his bmtk~ in Buddhist tern as a kind of Bddha-figure (evm
mkhg to me of thc bodiu of the Buddha, ni*), l%is hirpassae also meals the
amt to which he lwed his hiends to draw religious !mchgs from, equating -.and
.%up with BwMh and Chris. Krmwc also pnsmts his brother as receiving Christian-
Buddhist visim~s. In a scenc in which Ward, sick, falls Pdeep during a catshism clvl
andrecei~~~aviaic0ofHaYen,~YBCwritcr:
AutmatiCPUy he reads the words to please ha; while pausing, he looks Mwd at
the childm: Lo! PU thc beinns involved! Acd the stnnne snd dds. thc wmd of
soundldy inlo his m, and lhe sun rmvniog in the high windavs showing
mrcsr ofnnmdult-the whok oitiful world ia still there fin Heawnl! and mbody
hmvsit!&~t~~cesofthesame~ces~h&! &ethacsi
flmrr of lhe world!"
~w,Koaracwrsthemmarierofhisbro~to~hisownYimoflhe~,
Jack Knouse, miom @f Gemni (Farm, Sti-aw, and Gimm, 1963, re-,
Toronto: McGnw-Hill, 1976), pp. 13-14, IS.
lbid., pp. 67-68.