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Three pinches of holy incense, dropped into a smoking bowl in San Francisco's Hwongjo Temple, opened last week the first convention of Buddhists ever held in the U. S. In number 400, they represented the Shinshu sect, one of Buddhism's twelve major branches. They were preluding a Pan-Pacific Buddhists' Conference to be held in Tokyo in 1934. Mostly Orientals, they came from homes in Canada, Hawaii, various parts of the U. S. Frequent in their devotions was the repeated "Namu Ami Dabutsu," a Buddhist hymn which means "Let us follow the Buddha...
...Until 1924 Buddhists in Tibet, Mongolia & China looked up to two Lamas or Living Buddhas: the Panchen Lama or spiritual head of Buddhism, and the Dalai Lama or temporal ruler. Squabbling between these two holy men (fostered, said some observers, by British agents who found the Dalai Lama much more tractable) caused the Panchen Lama to flee from his headquarters in Tibet to China where he travels about, oblivious to and unharmed by all civil wars...
Anyone can see that the priests are popular, that Buddhism is popular in Siam. The eighty-odd French and English cars in King Prajadhipok's garage are all the color of a Buddhist's robe, yellow, national color of Siam...
...Heaven, Earth and the Great Ancestors. The bulk of the Chinese rabble scarcely had a religion. What they believed was that by tricks and spells one could ward off devils, and that it was dangerous not to respect one's omnipresent ancestors. Thus had Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism deteriorated. But Christianity had appeared to "revive" these lowly Chinese. Last week the most exalted man in China, General Chiang Kaishek, president of the Nationalist government, became and was baptized a Christian; to be exact, a Methodist...
...first created some 30 years ago, is the counterpart of the Y. M. C. A.. Y. M. H. A. and Knights of Columbus. But far more serious than members of those associations are Young Buddhists in propagating their faith. At Honolulu they resolved to "interpret" Buddhism to Christian races, to prosecute Buddhist missionary work throughout the Occident...