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...Breadth of Christianity. "When you compare Christianity with Confucianism, you are comparing two systems of personal morality. When you compare Christianity with Mahometanism, you are comparing two forms of fighting enthusiasm. When you compare Christianity with Buddhism, you are comparing two streams of mystical tendency. And, unconsciously, you have recognized [in so doing] that Christianity is something greater than the other three, because each of those others corresponds to one particular need, one particular mood of man, whereas Christianity corresponds to all three...
...Manhattan, John David Provoo, 35, ex-U.S. Army sergeant and onetime devotee of Japanese Buddhism; was convicted of treason after a trial lasting 15 weeks (TIME, Nov. 24). Charges on which the jury found Provoo guilty: 1) offering his services to the Japanese army following his capture at Corregidor in May 1942; 2) helping to cause the execution of one fellow prisoner by denouncing him to the Japanese as "uncooperative"; 3) participating in two wartime Japanese propaganda broadcasts. The eighth U.S. citizen to be convicted of treason since World War II, Provoo was the second to be convicted...
...porch of his home near San Francisco and fractured his skull on a concrete courtyard. The injury may or may not have permanently affected his brain, but for most of his life he has acted like an exceedingly odd duck. When he was eleven, he became a devotee of Buddhism; later, a Buddhist priest taught young Provoo to read, write and speak Japanese. In 1940 he went to Japan to learn more about Buddhism, lived in a Buddhist monastery near Tokyo. Back in the U.S., he enlisted in the Army and was sent to the Philippines. Nothing in John Provoo...
...World & the Self. Speaking for the continental Buddhists, Dr. Malalasekera told his hosts: "If Japan is to rehabilitate herself, she must again seek her inspiration in Buddhism . . . Her people must renounce the easy, attractive ways of imitation . . . Will Japan be prepared to abandon her false friends, who will use her difficulties to promote their own interests, or join [the Buddhist nations] who are her spiritual kindred...
This advice seemed a little too political for the self-effacing philosophy of classic Buddhism. Delegates took more kindly to a message from Dr. Daisetz Suzuki, Japan's great Buddhist scholar, now teaching at Columbia University. He wrote: "We know that the [world] situation is beyond our immediate control . . . But let us try to reserve a small corner somewhere on the surface of the earth where we Buddhists can form a nucleus for world survival . . . My idea is that the corner is one's individual self. For when this self is disciplined in the spirit of Buddha, free...