Word: buddhism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief purpose in life, that the utter denial of the individual is his greatest peace-a spiritual totalitarianism more primeval and more potent than anything Naziism ever dreamed of. The Way of the Gods. For 1,300 years Shinto (The Way of the Gods) was challenged and eclipsed by Buddhism as the imperial dynasty was eclipsed by the shogunate. But in 1868 it became Japan's state religion, a cult of the dead based on ancestor worship, and resumed its interrupted task of molding the Japanese people for their divine mission of conquest...
...stolen jewelry, Courtney Rogers maintained the immense glacial calm which has baffled sheriffs, infuriated prosecutors, prompted reporters to call him the "human icicle" and caused six psychiatrists to split 3 to 3 on his sanity. To any one who would listen, he continued to give patronizing lectures on astrology, Buddhism, grammar, physiology, Bach, palmistry, contract bridge...
Cooperating institutions in the Harvard organization are the Sino-Indian Institute, which specializes in the study of Indian philosophy and Buddhism, and the afore-mentioned Yenching University, which has one of the largest libraries in all of the Orient...
Evidence of Things Seen. Dr. Underwood agrees that Christianizing Korea has been a slow task. Of the country's 23,000,000 people only some 500,000 are Christians. Koreans seem indifferent to religion. Buddhism has died out. Some educated people have embraced Confucianism, which Dr. Underwood considers "hardly a religion." Most Koreans are ancestor-worshipers...
...study the government or the economic and social conditions, past or present, of the Far Eastern countries. One small exception at least must be made. Tucked away among the announcements of the Divinity School appeared these two sentences: "(1. Comparative Study of Religions, particularly the Vedic Religion, Hindu philosophies, Buddhism, Mazdaism, and the Chinese Religions.) Omitted in 1900-01." If no college graduate was actually ignorant of the existence of the less favored continents, the credit probably belonged to his grammar school class in geography. His college had given him an excellent excuse to believe that those regions had little...