Word: buddha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tokyo last week the Far Eastern Buddhist Congress, attended by 500 Chinese, Korean and Japanese delegates, decided to spread the teachings of their Master by the publication of Buddhist books, pamphlets, magazines. A resolution was passed urging that the birthday of Buddha be celebrated by a worldwide holiday, like the birthday of Christ...
...religious ignorance and bigotry as any that justified the Spanish Inquisition or the hanging of witches in New England. . . . The State of Tennessee has no more right to teach the Bible as the Divine Book than it has the Koran, the Book of Mormon, the Book of Confucius, the Buddha or the Essays of Emerson. . . . Who is the Chief Mogul that can tell us what the Bible means ? . . . Nothing was ever heard of all that [Christian divisions] until the Fundamentalists got into Tennessee. . . . Here is one thing I cannot account for, that is the hatred and the venom and feeling...
...lecture begins with an anecdote which Dr. Conwell claims to have heard from a Persian guide who was taking him down the Tigris. An ancient merchant dreamt a dream of diamonds, acres of diamonds and, on awaking from sleep, went to a priest of Buddha to ask where he should go to find such riches. The priest told him that if he could find a river that flowed over white sand between high mountains, the bed of that river would be full of diamonds. The merchant sold his orchards, granaries, fields, gardens, and traveled "over all the world" until...
Outer Mongolia (about half the size of continental U. S.) declared its independence from China and proclaimed as Emperor the Hutuktu (Living Buddha). The Hutuktu, spiritual and temporal head of the State, ruled autocratically in much the same way as the Popes used to rule the Papal States...
...Field Marshal Wu Bel Fu rules with an iron hand, yet he asked me to wait three days before continuing my journey, so that he could warn the bandits to let me alone.PRIZE OF WARNER EXPEDITION BROUGHT FROM WESTERN CHINA Statue, Dating From Ninth Century, of One of Buddha's Attendant Gods...