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Dayan
Israeli soldier and statesman. Born on Israel's first kibbutz of Russian parents, he became a guerrilla fighter against Arab raiders. Later he joined the illegal Jewish defense force Haganah. He lost an eye fighting the Vichy French in Syria during World War II. He was army chief of staff during the Suez Crisis (1956) and later agriculture minister (1959-64). He was appointed defense minister just before the Six-Day War, and the Israeli victory brought him widespread adulation; he served until 1974. He joined the opposition Likud as foreign minister when it came into power in 1977 and helped broker the 1978 Camp David Accords. See also Arab-Israeli Wars.


Kaloyan
Czar of Bulgaria (1197-1207). Having received his crown from the pope, he led a Bulgarian-Greek uprising in the Balkan Peninsula that defeated the Latin crusaders at Adrianople (1205) and took Baldwin I, the Latin emperor, prisoner. Kaloyan's alliance with the Greeks fell apart, and he died besieging Thessaloniki.


Karaganda
City (pop., 1995 est.: 574,000), central Kazakstan. The first settlement appeared in 1856, and small-scale coal mining began the next year. Mining expanded rapidly in the early 1930s, and it was made a city in 1934. Kazakstan's second-largest city, it consists of the old town, which grew up haphazardly around more than 20 mining settlements, and the new town, the cultural and administrative center, which includes a university and medical and polytechnic institutes.


Karajan
Austrian conductor. Born in Salzburg, he attended its Mozarteum, then continued his studies in Vienna. A prodigious pianist, he took his first conducting post in Ulm in 1929. In 1933 he joined the Nazi Party, and under the Third Reich his reputation grew swiftly. After World War II he initially was not allowed to conduct, but in 1947 he began recording with the Vienna Philharmonic, the start of a legacy of some 800 recordings. His U.S. debut in 1955 was attended by controversy over his Nazi-era activities. That same year he became W. Furtw\u00e4 ngler's successor at the Berlin Philharmonic, and he headed the Salzburg Festival from 1964 until his death.


Mahayana
One of the three major Buddhist traditions. It arose in the 1st cent. AD and is widely followed today in China, Korea, and Japan, and Tibet. Mahayanists distinguish themselves from the more conservative Theravada Buddhists of Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia. Whereas the Theravadins view the historical Buddha as a (merely) human teacher of the truth, Mahayanists see him as an earthly manifestation of a celestial Buddha. Mahayanists revere bodhisattvas, key figures in universal salvation. Compassion, the chief virtue of the bodhisattva, is valued as highly as wisdom, the virtue emphasized by the ancient Buddhists. Within Mahayana Buddhism, some branches emphasize esoteric practices (e.g., Shingon, Tibetan Buddhism). See also Kegon, ...

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