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Satyagraha, with its philosophic basis in Buddhism, Indian Mysticism, and also Christianity, has a hold on Hindu imagination. In Hindu eyes, it has proved itself in India's British relations. As to how it might work against an invader, Gandhi Student Krishnalal Shridharani says in a lengthy book on the subject, War Without Violence: "Satyagraha has not had to face an invading army. . . . Drawing upon our imagination-thousands of citizens would throw their defenseless bodies on the earth at the frontier, giving the invading horde a choice of either advancing over a human bloody carpet or staying outside...
...becomes more deeply involved in the lives of war refugees, the calm, breadth and mercy of Ch'an Buddhism more and more profoundly draw and disturb her. When monkish Lao Peng is so unlucky as to fall in love with her, that only makes things worse. Their difficulties are illuminated by several passages of straight theology which suggest how international is this war's religious revival...
...totalitarian State, might apostasize. But, said Bishop Abe: "The Government has not interfered and has no intention of interfering with the doctrine of the church." Only State control is administrative enforcement of the 1940 Religious Bodies Law (which recognizes Christianity as an official Japanese religion along with Shintoism and Buddhism). All church executives must be Japanese subjects, and no native church worker can be supported by foreigners; but American mission boards can still pay the salaries of U.S. citizens working in Japan, can aid the Japanese churches financially provided they tie no string to their gifts...
...second trip, in 1936, Pallis still bowed politely to a few peaks; but by that time he was far more interested in Tibetan art and in the mysteries of Tibetan Buddhism. No insulated tripper but a careful student of language and custom, he visited one Buddhist monastery after another in the borderland provinces of Sikkim and Ladak, seeking always Lamas, teachers, of the utmost excellence, and bringing always the conventional offering: unmounted precious stones...
...batteries, all of them out of commission. But Marco Pallis did find four good & great men, to whom he dedicates his book. From one he learned the traditions and processes of Tibetan painting. With the others he debated on war, on compassion, on the relative merits of Christianity and Buddhism, on such problems as the possibility of an animal's attaining Buddhahood without first passing through the human phase. From them he learned, and through them he was profoundly drawn toward that subtle, serenely intricate theology which traces all evil to the pig (Ignorance), the cock (Ego, Desire...