Word: buddhism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Anthropological Club has arranged a series of four lectures, to be given in the Fogg Lecture Room on the following dates: November 2, "The Art of the American Indian," by Dr. Clark Wisler, of Columbia; November 16, "Ghost Worship and Buddhism in India," by Dr. J. H. Woods '87, instructor of Indic Philology; December 2. "The Characteristics of Primitive Culture," by Dr. Franz Boas, of Columbia, and head of the Field Columbian Expedition; December 7, "The Maya Hieroglyphs," by Mr. C. P. Bowditch...
Western civilization is built on economic principles--Oriental civilization on morals. The basis of Burmese society, which has not the slightest connection with that of India, is Buddhism, some conception of which we must have to explain the character and institutions of Burma...
...India, spoke last night in the New Lecture Hall on "The Purpose and the Essential Teachings of Gotama Buddha." He was introduced by Professor C. R. Lanman of the Department of India Phiology. The Anagarika, who is now on his third visit to this country, told of the way Buddhism is misrepresented in the western world. He discountenanced the popular belief that Buddhism is a religion of pessimists, and explained how its concept came to the mind of Buddha. "Buddhism," he said, "is a sort of absolute psychology; it is the religion of absolute happiness." Its most important teaching...
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