Word: buddhist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...credo. Not that your Old Fellow's stint around your heads--but it's one way of suggesting to you gentlemen who would be on the scholastic road this morning something about the Chinese philosophy of life. So, bless his soul, the Vagabond is not a Taoist or a Buddhist or a Confucian--though they serve as a basis for the popular religion in China today--no, the Old Rover's way is to make a system of systems. Prithee, "What is truth...
Three hundred and twenty-five sacred books from Thibet have arrived at the Yenching Institute which form the Kanjur-Tanjur, an important part of the Buddhist code; the Tanjur is composed partly of commentaries and later texts about Buddha's instructions, while the elder Kanjur sets forth his commands...
...longer possible to have books like these reprinted, because a Mohammedan uprising in 1928 destroyed the wooden blocks of a Buddhist monastery on the Gansu-Thibetan border, where similar printing had been carried...
...many of China's military élite. Even the great has-been among Chinese war lords, strapping, whimsical and always surprising "Christian Marshal" Feng Yu-hsiang, trekked down from his retirement near the Tai Shan ("Sacred Mountain") to announce good humoredly that he is "now a devout Buddhist...
...tiny object the size of a rice grain. Bishop Kenju Masuyama and two priests, their hands clasped, meditated before it, chanting softly in Japanese. The tiny pellet, they believed, was an authentic bit from the bones of Buddha,* only one in the U. S. Bishop Masuyama, head of the Buddhist Church in North America (12,000 members), got it in Siam last June from Prince Yinavara Siravadhana who took it from a Bangkok temple...