Word: buddhism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ochimi Kurbushirm, Tokyo, Bachelor of Divinity, pointed out that Buddhism, Shintoism and Confucianism never gave women a place as persons, as Christianity...
First, the Council will attempt to discover and to state the spiritual values of non-Christian systems of religion; it will review Confucianism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Islamism from a sympathetic point of view. Then it will try to reach a more profound understanding of interdependence between the younger Churches, especially in Asia, and the older Churches. Another topic to be considered is the impact of industrialism upon Asia and Africa. These are questions which have often been discussed before, though perhaps never by a group so well equipped to arrive at satisfactory answers. This is a council of commanders...
...found questions revolving in their minds. They attended "colloquia" where they could ask their questions for any one to answer. Most of the questions exhibited a naīve idealism and an insistence on the particular rather than the general. Said one student: "Would it be possible for Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism to be worked together into a whole?" "It would not," said Dr. Francis C. M. Wei, President of Central China Christian University. Many asked: "Can't the missionaries bring Christ to the foreign fields without also bringing Christianity or Christian Civilization?" One asked a question which...
From 1879 to 1881, Dr. Bigelow was an instructor in surgery at the Harvard-Medical School. He became distinguished as an authority not only on surgical matters but also on Buddhism and Oriental religions...
...tell them of literature. Who better than Gandhi knew Shakespeare, Goethe, Tolstoy? Or the science of government? Gandhi knew well Britain's jails. Then religion- how the Mahatma's deep oriental mysticism had swayed India! But which religion should he be asked to expound? Hinduism? Buddhism? Mohammedanism ? Back trooped the brown-skinned pupils and delivered their choice. Forthwith last week Mahatma Gandhi, austere ascetic, Tolstoy disciple, famed Indian politico-spiritual leader, began to teach of Jesus, of the Apostles, of the mysterious Holy Trinity, of twenty centuries of ecclesiastical superstructure. They were glad when the Mahatma spoke...