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...meeting with radio. Last month, it started broadcasting over WBZ's FM circuit its famed, formidable Free Public Lectures. But these, and not only because of FM's present limited audience, could never expect to draw many listeners. Reason: lecture subjects include such topics as Lamaism, the Buddhism of Tibet and Mongolia and Applications of Seismological Techniques to Engineering Problems...
Madame & the Masters. It was in India-eventually she set up Theosophy's permanent international headquarters at Adyar, Madras-that the pattern of the Society began to crystallize. Here she accumulated Theosophy's assorted bag of borrowings from Buddhism, Hinduism, yoga, the cabala. Here she incorporated the key Theosophist doctrine of reincarnation and developed to the full her hierarchy of "Masters"-Tibetan superbeings who guide mankind through Theosophy...
...time-waster. After it came off the blacklist, millions of fans stayed down in the dumps-the game was not the same without Chinese-born National Champion Wu Ching-yuan. Wu had become a convert of Aiko Nagashima, high priestess of the Jiwu cult of Buddhism, and she had said...
During the next ten years, the Maryknollers will concentrate hardest on Christianizing Japan. Because defeat discredited Buddhism and Shintoism, the Japanese are turning to Christianity, "the religion of the victors." But the Japanese have other reasons with which the Maryknoll missionaries sympathize and on which they intend to capitalize. Explained one of them last week: "The Japanese think now that the only real danger to their progress toward becoming a stable power is Communism, and they know that the Catholic Church is the implacable enemy of Communism...
...know this, Professor Northrop says, is the wisdom of the Orient; and in the great religions of the East, most purely in Buddhism, it has been cultivated through thousands of years as the ultimate reality. In the West, even artists were rarely content to render the sensuous world-the esthetic component-for its own sake until 19th Century Impressionism. Yet if all devotees of the theoretic component-Anglo-Americans in particular-can learn the religious value of direct experience, fanaticism and confusion would cease...