Word: buddhas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...totally disarmed India could not conceivably have accomplished a fragment of this by any other methods except those of Ghandi. The British are finding it very uncomfortable to deal with a potent force that Ghandi has set in motion. Ghandi is anything but a "demagogue." No man since Buddha has been held with such deep reverence by his people as this frail little man. None, not even excepting Buddha, has gained such a tremendous following in that land. His bitterest political opponents ungrudgingly pay homage to his high ethi- cal and spiritual qualities. "Ghandism a striking corpso"--strange indeed! Those...
Professor Babbitt is a scholar of tremendous erudition; he has read, roughly, everything. Be it Buddha, Coleridge, or Sinclair Lewis's last novel, it is all grist to his mill. The name of the course makes no difference; were it to be "A Study of the Literary Background of 'Alice in Wonderland'," Professor Babbitt would yet find in this work his favorities--the higher will, the ethical imagination, the central control making for decency and humility, the star of Burke, the Christian and the gentleman, and the wisdom of the ages--set against his villains--what one is tempted...
...real start in the First Century A. D. when missionaries from India converted the Emperor Ming Ti to Buddhism. Chief symbol of that religion was the lion because, as India's most dreaded beast, it represented all the human passions and powers of darkness which the Lord Buddha had subdued. Tamed, the lion became his faithful servant and companion, was usually pictured by his side. But China had no lions and most Chinese had never seen one. At last some sharp-eyed follower of the Emperor noticed how strikingly the Court's tawny little dogs resembled Buddha...
Many centuries ago, runs a Chinese legend, a lion wandering through a forest spied a monkey and fell in love with her. Despairing at the discrepancy in their sizes, he prayed his lord & protector Buddha that he might be dwarfed. Buddha answered the plea of the lion, who promptly married his monkey-love. . . . One result of that storied union was to be seen last week in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel...
...chairman of the Japanese-North American Buddhist Federation. Wearing the "kesa" (embroidered collar) of his rank, he presided at "Koshukwai" (lectures on Buddhism's history and meaning) which took upmost of the convention's time. Lesser priests put on the "Juzu" (sacred beads representing the followers of Buddha), rang gongs, burned incense, read from the scriptures on each side of the gilt altar, decorated with pink, white and green cakes and many flowers. When religious matters were disposed of, the 400 convened Buddhists ate of Japanese victuals and, like their Christian brothers in convention, romped politely...