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Word: buddhist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which Old Charlie married off Second Sister Ching-ling ("Happy") to First President Sun. Years later when Dr. Sun was dead and when Generalissimo Chiang, once a secretary of Dr. Sun, had conquered all China, "Pleasant" said: "We Soongs can make much of this man." Though he was a Buddhist with concubines and the Soongs are Christians, she approved when Chiang put aside his concubines and married Youngest Sister Mei-ling ("Beautiful"). Meanwhile "Pleasant" herself had married the 75th lineal descendant of Confucius, Dr. H. H. Kung. Her little Brother Tse-wen ("Scholarly Son") became Finance Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: CHINA Generalissimo's Last Straw | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

...dates for the November series are as follows: November 15, "Early Chinese Art"; November 22, "Indian Buddhist Art and the Impact of Buddhism on China"; November 29, "Chinese Landscape Art." The February series is as follows: February 14, "Persian Art"; February 21, "Japanese Art"; and February 28, "Art and Daily Life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First of Binyon Lectures To Be Delivered November 18 | 10/18/1933 | See Source »

Japanese affectionately call 78-year-old Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi "Daruma" after the pot-bellied Buddhist sage, symbol of good luck. Just now he is carrying on with the most colossal and appallingly unbalanced budget in Japanese history. Since Japan quit the gold standard (TIME, Dec. 21, 1931) her yen has fallen to 36% of its par gold value but there has been no monetary inflation, no starting of the Japanese Treasury's printing presses. Last week Mr. Takahashi, who in his youth indentured himself to an Oakland, Calif, farmer to work for three years for a total wage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Takahashi on Roosevelt | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

Bishop Kenju Masuyama, primate of the Buddhist Church in North America, gazed at the $50,000 Manchurian Railways Building, a handsome structure in the style of the Kamakura period, built in Chicago of Japanese materials by 25 Japanese carpenters. Said Bishop Masuyama to the man in charge, one Kiyohide Yamashitu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Gift to Buddhists | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

...North American Buddhist Church. with 12,000 members, has 36 temples, none of them imposing. Having no real estate to spare Bishop Masuyama did not know where he could put a new one. But he planned last week to accept the Manchurian Railways Building, have it dismantled and shipped to the West Coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Gift to Buddhists | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

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