Word: buddha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Amid the vast confusion of trash of every form, from cosmetics to detective story magazines, that is flooding Europe and America, the overthrow of our civilization seems imminent. We can avoid it only by following the teachings of the greatest men that have ever lived, among them, Plato. Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, the great Hindu teachers, and last and best exponent of all ideas. Jesus Christ...
...just borne .him a son, and went into the wilderness to meditate. Only Channa, the charioteer, accompanied him. In time, Gautama sent Channa back to the palace to take all the princely jewels and rings to Yasodhara in remembrance of her husband. Thus, alone, ventured forth the first Buddha...
...India the intellectual classes were egoists and Buddha could not altogether enlighten them. Still he did not wish entirely to withhold his teachings. So he taught them the Hinayana (Little Vehicle) which was best suited to their intellectual capacities...
Later, in China, flowered the sublimest school of Buddhism, the Mahayana (Great Vehicle). And so, it is explained, from China there now issues "the greatest 20th century disciple of Buddha...
Buddhists believe in reincarnation and, therefore, that life ceases never. When a Buddhist becomes enlightened and good he may himself become a Buddha. Then he reaches Nirvana where there is rest and surcease from the pains of life and death...