Word: buddhistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Buddhist Sutra...
Buddhism is one of the most pervasive of all religions, and theologically one of the most accommodating. In the 2,500 years since Gautama Buddha first preached his doctrines in India, they have spread over Asia like a billowing saffron robe. In the process, Buddhist doctrines have been porous enough to admit and blend with local beliefs, such as spirit-worship in Burma, Confucianism in China, and the ancestor worship of Japanese Shinto...
Bones-and the Atomic Age. To keep alive a sense of Buddhist unity, despite these local religious differences, 200 representatives of Asia's 150 million Buddhists (plus a few Buddhists from Europe and the U.S.) met last week in Tokyo's Nishi Honganji Temple for the second conference of the World Fellowship of Buddhists. Sitting under a forest of multicolored* Buddhist banners, they opened with a special anthem...
Then, while robed priests shook incense and chanted the Buddhist sutras, they bowed before a golden reliquary containing a fragment of Buddha's bones. In a welcoming speech, Prince Mikasa, Emperor Hirohito's youngest brother, told them: "I believe a new mission has been added to Buddhist circles all over the world-a mission to cope with the present atomic...
...World & the Self. Speaking for the continental Buddhists, Dr. Malalasekera told his hosts: "If Japan is to rehabilitate herself, she must again seek her inspiration in Buddhism . . . Her people must renounce the easy, attractive ways of imitation . . . Will Japan be prepared to abandon her false friends, who will use her difficulties to promote their own interests, or join [the Buddhist nations] who are her spiritual kindred...