Word: buddha
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sisowath, delight of his 100 wives, had been doubled up and forced into the urn. Over him was poured mercury and then a topping of aromatic oils. Previously the Monarch's eldest son, now King Monivong of Cambodia, had intoned in the dead King's ear: "May Buddha receive you. May Buddha receive you! MAY BUDDHA RECEIVE...
...ceremonies of last week were designed to get pickled King Sisowath finally into the presence of that being who appeared on earth as Gau ama (circa 480 B.C.) and was deified as the serene, immortal Buddha...
...lamentations. Slowly, reverently all that remained of Monarch Sisowath was borne to the top of the pyre and there set down. In life he had been an amiable if do-nothing puppet of France. His pleasures were slumber, meditation and degustation. Fittingly and honorably he was borne away to Buddha, amid the swelling and sizzling of mercury, and the sweet stench of aromatics...
...attended the dinner of the Church Club, in Manhattan. After the banquet was over, he rose to his feet, looked fixedly toward the ceiling and delivered a short oration on U. S. customs and eccentricities. Said he: "... I have not yet summoned up courage enough to enthrone myself like Buddha in one of your shoeshine parlors...
...Buddhist paintings, with three exceptions, do not belong to the Hoyt collection, and of course are not as important as those to be found in the Boston Museum, which are the best outside the Orient. But these are of very real and decorative value. The Nirvana of the Buddha, half obliterated as it is, contains some splendid passages of color and most vivid drawings of the animals that mourn about the death couch...