Word: buddha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After reading it very carefully, I came to the page on Religion and I would like to draw your attention to Rabbi Stephen Wise's comment on the "Erection of a Shrine to Buddha" in Central Park, New York City [Dec. 14 issue, p. 26]. It reads: "I wonder whether the proposal to erect a statue in Central Park to Buddha comes from Will Rogers. It is quite worthy of his fertile wit. Buddha! What's the matter with Mahomet ? What's the matter with Confucius, to say nothing of Bab? And there is a sect called the Mormons...
They recalled that in 1919 "Little Hsu" performed the miracle of marching 10,000 men across the Gobi Desert and the Mongolian steppes to Kalgan and Urga, where he deposed the so called "Living Buddha" (Hutukhtu) and blasted the power of numerous Mongolian...
These statements of well-known prelates - rather extraordinary statements, when one considers the pettiness of the issue-led wondering readers of the press to recall what they had forgotten about Buddha...
...Three cheers for Buddha...
Monsignor John L. Belford, rector of the Roman Catholic Church of the Nativity (Brooklyn) said: "I think we should keep the statue of Buddha out of the park by all means...