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...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...
Those busy little borrowers, the Japanese, prepared last week to pay back an old debt, with interest. The debt was Buddhism, which Japan borrowed from India (some 14 centuries ago) via China. Now the Japanese see in Buddhism a heaven-sent means of controlling their newly conquered Asiatic populations. A Nipponese broadcast, picked up by the Indian radio and cabled to the U.S., forecasts some steps in Tokyo's program of spiritual regeneration...
...Thai Buddhism has something in common with Japanese Buddhism. If we Japanese can control and guide [the Thai] priests, then we shall not have difficulty leading Thailand religiously...
Hinduism came before Buddhism in India, and lasted longer. Of the numerous Hindu deities, Brahma is boss, with Vishnu, the preserver, and Siva, god of destruction and creation, making up the Hindu trinity. The Hindu measures his own brevity by a vast time sense: a day in the life of Brahma runs roughly to 4,320,000,000 earthly years. Siva, as Lord of the Dance, is sometimes represented as both masculine and feminine (see cut) and incarnates the pulse of this cosmic life. "In the night of Brahma," says an Indian scholar, "Nature is inert, and cannot dance till...
...Buddhism, which originated in India in the 5th Century B.C., had spread all over the East but practically disappeared from its homeland by the 13th Century A.D.The Buddhist ascendancy mellowed Indian sculpture into a less sensuous character. Instead of the bulbous breasts, swivel hips, wasp waists and whirling, multiple arms of Hinduism's gods, the Buddha had a repose of form and peace of countenance somewhat like that of the greatest Greek sculpture...