Look what I found, illustrated life of Buddha by U Ba Kyi
When we were growing up, we had a print copy of this, which we kept under our shrine shelf.
And
I just found out U Ba Kyi also went to Univ of Pennsylvania, School of
Arts and Science, in Philadelphia, and he may have been selected for
that scholarship by my father U Kaung. In the 1950s, a number of
Burmese studied in the USA or UK.
And
then in 1962, after my father had passed away already, Gen. Ne Win
stage his coup and stopped all scholarships to West, except for medical
doctors.
My husband's boss used to say, "Well, why doesn't he have a barefoot doctor cut into him then?"
I
also went to U Penn in 1982 on a Fulbright. 6 of us in a country of
60m were selected after a battery of tests, bc Ne Win's daughter failed
her entrance exams for med school in London.
For a while, Wikipedia listed her as "dictator gynaecologist."
That's all amazing.
kmk
10-23-2020
