Word: buddha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Good Little God. In Mukden, capital of the great northern Province of Manchuria, Governor-General Chang Hsueh-Liang had sufficient respite from war last week to entertain in sumptuous fashion that good little god, the Panchen Lama or "Living Buddha," devoutly venerated by millions of Chinese Buddhists...
...they obeyed, aware that Brother Prajadhipok is, officially, King of Siam, of the North and of the South, and of all the Dependencies, of the Laotians, of the Malays, of the Karens, Descendant of the Great God Buddha, Supreme Arbiter of the Ebb and Flow of the Tide, Brother of the Moon, Half-brother of the Sun, Possessor of the Four and Twenty Golden Umbrellas...
...psychological significance whatever. It is a great, coarse object in a debased Indo-Chinese style, representing a creature half-Buddha, half-mummy, bearing upon her knee a corpselike child of enormous size...
Twenty-one years ago, Dr. Jones, a fledgling missionary, went to India. To the impregnable land of Buddha, of Kabir and Nanak he brought the message and life of Christ. He worked hard; there were the inevitable depressions and exaltations; at times "there were several collapses...
...author in sensing what the reader knows and what needs explanation, so if the book had not been tested on an audience for timings and proportions. But with judicious skimming these shortcomings can be obviated, and there is compensation in the sympathetic treatment of the teachings of Buddha and Zoroaster, in the admiration for the Samurai and for the innovations of the founders of the United States, and in the personal anecdotes of the author's experiences with the administrators of government in African tribes and in post-War Russia...