Word: buddhist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the sublime vagueness of the true Siamese, His Majesty addressed his abdication to nobody, not to his Government which wished to keep him on the Throne, not to his people who have ever idolized him, finally not even to his Buddhist Gods...
...this kindness, all this money had had. The time seemed most propitious. The British-controlled Dalai Lama had died in December 1933, and according to immemorial tradition his spirit was announced to have found residence in the body of a small button-eyed Tibetan moppet, chosen by wheel-spinning Buddhist priests. Until he reaches his majority the new Dalai Lama will be shut up in a monastery and the country will be governed by a Regency. Nobody knew for certain who was pulling the strings that ran the Regency, but China's chances might be better. In August...
...basement of the Victoria & Albert Museum and in the Buddhist Room of the British Museum last week curators and assistants were ripping open boxes and crates, carefully lifting out ancient bits of precious porcelain. Busy with a group of 200 antique Chinese paintings. Orientalist Laurence Binyon prophesied that a 13th Century landscape that he was cataloging will be one of the British Museum's most popular treasures. Keeper of Oriental Antiquities Robert Lockhart Hobson was most excited about a green bronze ram dating from 1200 B. c. and valued at ?10,000. And there was plenty more: Ming vases...
...Presbyterian, 419; Unitarian, 341; Methodist, 315; Protestant (unspecified) 158; Baptist, 147; Christian Science, 75; Lutheran, 70; Christian Faith, 43; Quakers, 27; Reformed Church, 18; Greek Orthodox, 17; Latter Day Saints, 11; Swedenborgian, 7; Ethical Culture, 7; Dutch Reformed, 7; Evangelical Church, 5; Church of Brethren, 6; Community Church, 4; Buddhist, 4; Seventh Day Adventists, Russian Orthodox, Union Church, Hindu, Moslem, two each; Calvary Reformed, Church of God, Free Church, Federated Church, Mennonite, Orthodox, Calvinist, Modern Humanist, Liberal, Buchanan, Albanian Orthodox, Moravian Universalist, Disciples of Christ, Christendom, Pentecostal, one each...
...every tribe hates and fears every other tribe, called on Dr. Sheldrake in his Peiping hotel and invited him to be their overlord. The red-fezzed, toothbrush-mustached Briton accepted and announced that he was King of the entire Chinese province of Sinkiang, of some 3,000,000 Moslem, Buddhist, Confucianist, Taoist souls speaking Turkish, Russian, Chinese and Persian. Sweeping clean, he announced that the name of his new kingdom was "Islamistan...