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Visiting a Parliament of Religions in Calcutta while his monoplane underwent repairs at Nagpur, Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh heard himself compared by Indian Poetess Sarojini Naidu to Buddha, Galileo and "other spiritual figures of the world," flushed scarlet...
Best of Buffalo's bronzes: two owls dated approximately 1122 B.C.; a gilt Buddha whose first private owner, the Empress Dowager's Viceroy Tuan Fang, acquired it by building a brand new temple for the monks who had guarded it; a group of Renaissance pieces from the Dreyfus collection, just bought by Andrew Mellon for his new national museum (TIME, Jan. 11); two Benvenuto Cellinis; David with the Head of Goliath, only known bronze by Luca della Robbia beside his famed doors for the Florence Cathedral; the earliest of six known figures by Daumier of "Ratapoil," his famed...
...white Buddhist priests in the U. S., intoned: "This candi date desires ordination." Red-robed Bishop Kenju Masuyama, head of all Buddhist temples in North America, placed a kesa (stole) around the neck of yellow-robed Mrs. Pratt. Chanted she: "I take my refuge in Buddha. I take my refuge in Dharma. I take my refuge in Sangha." Thus Mrs. Pratt entered the life of Upasika Bhikum ("Utmost Perfection of Womanly Virtue"). Taking a new name, Teiun, she continued her old work : teaching U. S. and Japanese Buddhist children in Tacoma...
...Friday evenings, is considering "Some of the Obstacles to Religions Faith," next time with particular reference to "Evil." professor Bixler's group, which meets the first Monday evening of the month, is working on "The Philosophies of the Good Life of Various Men." such as William James and Buddha...
Three hundred and twenty-five sacred books from Thibet have arrived at the Yenching Institute which form the Kanjur-Tanjur, an important part of the Buddhist code; the Tanjur is composed partly of commentaries and later texts about Buddha's instructions, while the elder Kanjur sets forth his commands...