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Word: buddha (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: There are those who, having attained "Oneness with Brahma," would discover soup-stains on that one's waistcoat ; who, sitting on a lotus flower in the selfless Nirvana of Buddha, would find withered petals ; who, wandering deified through the Greek Elysian Fields, would discover a fly in Hebe's nectar; or who, reading that perfect periodical TIME, would stumble over idiosyncrasies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 17, 1926 | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

...eight principal gods of Siam to enter his person. Rising, he walked to another throne, where he placed the crown of Siam upon his head and invited his queen to sit beside him, thus raising her to royal rank. Finally, he proceeded to the great Temple of the Emerald Buddha, renowned among travelers, and there proclaimed himself Defender of the Faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: Self-Crowned | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

...While travelling through a community of Tibetans the expedition was held up by a religious ceremony which involved supplications and sacrifices to a living man believed to be a reincarnation of Buddha himself. The deity was induced to pose for my camera and I was able to bring back a living record for the silver screen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOEL, CLIMBER OF EVEREST, WILL SHOW VIEWS OF MALLORY'S STRUGGLE FOR SUMMIT | 3/3/1926 | See Source »

...been no Iowa farmboys studying in Tokyo, no Boston freshman at Peking or Madras. The self-sufficient Occident has always assumed the teacher's role in its colleges at home, in its Christian missions abroad. Yet lately there have come missionaries to the Christians from the followers of Buddha, Confucius and Krishna. And last week another reciprocity was announced. With money derived from staging their native dramas at International House, Manhattan, Japanese students established the first Oriental scholarship ever offered to U. S. students, open to "the most promising student" wishing to complete his or her studies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Reciprocity | 2/15/1926 | See Source »

...citizen, believe in justice and I say with deepest sincerity that I consider it not only very unjust but inconceivable in this day and age of enlightenment to compare Mrs. Eddy, a true American, and her works, which stand for the very ideals upon which America was founded, with Buddha, Mahomet, Confucius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 8, 1926 | 2/8/1926 | See Source »

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