Word: buddhism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like Christianity, Buddhism includes many a sect. One of the more potent is the Jodo-shinshu sect, founded in Japan 700 years ago. Month ago in the Hompa Hongwanji Temple in Kyoto, Japan, Abbot Otani, head of the sect, blessed a two-foot image of Lord Buddha, carved of wood and covered with eight layers of gold leaf. Last week an envoy of Abbot Otani arrived in San Francisco with the image, turned it over to Rinban, or Bishop, Kenju Masuyama, the Occidental-looking head of some 50,000 U. S. members of the Jodo-shinshu sect...
First, in a ceremony called Chigo, 300 children paraded to the Temple, carrying artificial lotus leaves as a symbol of purity. Among the moppets was one of Buddhism's 2,000 white California followers, a 14-year-old named Emma Balaric In the Temple, priests chanted, incense fumed as the statue was enthroned. That evening, with more chanting and with the congregation praying with 108-beaded Ojuzus, or prayer-strings, the Temple was made a Betsu-in and bespectacled Priest Shigefuji became a Rinban of equal rank with Rinban Masuyama. Next morning a Hana-matsuri, or flower festival, took...
...habit of scolding because they do nothing but "preach, preach, preach," were eager to meet a man of God who had performed such practical miracles as marketing Japanese three-piece men's suits for $1.35. And some genuinely religious folk saw in Dr. Kagawa, who was converted from Buddhism by Southern Presbyterians and is a minister in the Union Church of Christ in Japan, a living example of the worth of foreign missions...
When Sunya Pratt was 14, her father gave her a number of books, told her to choose her-own religion. She chose Buddhism with "its philosophy of com passion, calmness, emancipation from ignorance and prejudice, its justice." Later she made Buddhists of her children and her husband, J. Wesley Pratt, a traveling salesman. ("It gives them a better understanding, free of all superstition.") But when the children grow up, Mrs. Pratt, now 38, intends to leave them and her home. She will have her head shaved, put on the. yellow robe of a mendicant nun, divest herself of all possessions...
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