Word: buddhist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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School children in Tacoma, Wash, gazed with solemn curiosity last week at their schoolmates Veronica Pratt, 17, and Patrick Pratt, 9, whose British-born mother, Mrs. Sunya Pratt, had just become the first white Buddhist priestess...
...Japanese Premier who was able by an amazing fluke to attend his own solemn Buddhist funeral and admire the hundreds of wreaths prominent persons had sent to be piled around his coffin was Admiral Keisuke Okada (TIME, March 9). Japanese Army youngsters thought they were killing Premier Okada when they were actually killing his brother-in-law, a Japanese Samurai who bravely pretended to be the Premier...
...simple Buddhist funeral was next held for "Premier Okada," who ventured out and actually attended it, masquerading as his brother-in-law, "Colonel Matsuo." The corpse was reverently interred, and the only thing which might have given the show away was that the Emperor, who by this time knew the amazing truth, did not send the customary condolences and imperial presents for the Dead. This omission went unnoticed...
...such a thrust, if it should come, Russia is now frantically rushing to completion a Second Trans-Siberian Railway north of Lake Baikal. Main fighting last week was near Lake Bor, which Japanese say is 18 miles inside the Manchu Empire and irate Mongols consider theirs. An ancient Buddhist temple with thick walls impressed commanders on both sides as worth fighting for-an ideal stronghold for the winner. As rifles crackled, the Japanese officers joyfully saw two bombing planes approaching, assumed them to be Japanese, the only kind ever seen in those parts. Instead, the thundering birds were Mongols with...
...name the world knows had enjoyed the same success it would have been psychologically much greater. At week's end cables from Tientsin announced that the great "Scholar War Lord," Marshal Wu Pei-fu, had agreed to end eight years of erudite and pious seclusion in a Buddhist monastery to rule North China...