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...siesta. A Chinese soup vendor beat a hollow stick on a block of wood, click-clack-click, to proclaim his wares. Beyond the lake, in the pagoda of the Seven Crows, a wizened old man in a black robe bent in prayer before a dim effigy of the great Buddha. On the deserted curb five tattered Vietnamese newsboys were playing "to'," an Eastern version of craps...
...same virtues that Christians revere in the Madonna: purity, motherhood and the understanding of sorrows. He also approved of Hindu representations of Christ that looked like the god Siva, "because Siva is a highly spirtualized deity. But we do object to Christ being represented in the guise of Buddha, since Buddha is worshiped...
...cheng was born in 1903 in the mountains of Central China, grew up in Peking, where his peasant-born father was director of military training for the Imperial Chinese army. In Peking's yellow-roofed Forbidden City, Dowager Empress Tzu-hsi (also known as the "Venerable Buddha") still occupied the Dragon Throne, and China still lay in the heavy torpor of her past. While Wu was in school, Sun Yat-sen and his followers rudely yanked at the queue of Chinese tradition, dethroned the Manchus and established the Chinese Republic...
...India, where people usually come from villages." Mayer is also advising Indian architects on the kind of buildings to be used in the new city. His idea of the capitol is a cone-shaped building like the Buddhist monuments which Mayer saw in the Indian town of Gaya, where Buddha is said to have received his enlightenment. Highest buildings of the city will be the five-story legislature and the three-story secretariat. Other buildings, to be constructed of local brick and sandstone, will be two stories high. Building the city will require 10,000 workmen and will cost...
...want a doctrine or institution which does not deny you equality, economic emancipation, etc., there is no better platform than Buddhism and pursuance of the enlightened path of the Buddha...