Word: buddhism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most Japanese (46,000,000 of them) are adherents of Buddhism, for three centuries, until 1868, the official religion of Japan. However, Shintoism ("The Way of the Gods"), a native Japanese system of nature and ancestor worship, commands the allegiance of 17,000,000. There are two forms of Shintoism, one divided into many small religious sects, the other attached to the State and called "Shrine Shinto." Whether the latter is a religion at all is today a matter of great controversy. A State commission, established in 1929, spent four years pondering it without reaching a unanimous conclusion. The Japanese...
Lamaism, faith of 3,000,000 Tibetans, 7,000,000 Mongols and other races in Central Asia, is a form of Buddhism, brought from India through the snow-swept passes of the Himalayas in the 7th Century. Lamaists believe in numerous divine incarnations, chief of which are-1) the Dalai Lama, temporal master of Tibet and "Buddha of Mercy," 2) His Serenity the Panchen or Tashi Lama, spiritual leader and "Buddha of Boundless Light...
...that book hinted that what the U. S. needs, in order to quiet its nerves, is a good shot of Chinese philosophy. In The Importance of Living Author Yutang sets down what he thinks are the most useful ingredients for a Chi-nese-American way of life. Banning Buddhism because "it is too sad," he likes the Taoist-Confucianist view better, but cheerfully admits that he has taken many of his opinions from humbler authorities who include "Mrs. Huang, an amah in my family; a Soochow boatwoman with her profuse use of expletives; a Shanghai street car conductor ... a lion...
...Lawrentian humanism, with a dash more intellect, a dash less sex. In Brave New World (1932) he knocked Utopia down for another count of ten. The hero of Eyeless in Gaza (TIME, July 13. 1936) turned out to be a thoroughgoing pacifist, with a philosophy combining features of Yogi, Buddhism, other Oriental mysteries. After this last novel, it looked as if Huxley, saved himself, was now ready to save the world...
...world's history has organized lying been practiced so shamelessly. . . . Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards." First step in the right direction, says Huxley, is to stop whoring after the false gods of Fascism and Communism, heed those of Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity (except in its "extravagant asceticism .. . brutally cynical forms of realpolitik"). Most modern morality and social philosophy will have to go. In their place, men shall substitute such proverbs as: "All that we are ... is the result of what we have thought. . . . Most ignorance is vincible ignorance...