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...have offered to supply buttons spanning two centuries. "This gives us samples from many different periods of time," says Poths, "and all manufactured in one place." Some efforts, however, have been disappointing. The researchers had high hopes for a collection of ancient cremation vessels from a Buddhist mission in Hawaii, only to find that the lids were loose. Sighs Ogard: "Most things that can be opened have been...
...Buddhist graveyard at Kuba, Kawamoto walks among the block-shaped tombstones and looks down from the steep hill at Hiroshima Bay, where he swam as a child. This was the graveyard where he and the other boys used to test their courage: "In the daytime we would come up here and leave some personal belonging. In the night we would retrieve it, which would prove to the others that we were here...
Reading the names on the Buddhist tombstones, Kawamoto points out those of the families he knew. He keeps a plot of ground here for his own family. Living in Ono again, he is close to both the villages of his youth, though Kuba, like Ono, has grown considerably. The hill of the graveyard had to be cut away at the base to make way for a new high school. Growth is natural, Kawamoto says, but he regrets modern disconnections from the past. "Now the future is everything." Still, he believes that the world is in many ways better off than...
...Inside the exhibit, the walls are painted dark blue, the space feels intimate, the atmosphere subdued, and the scrolls are older and more traditional. Buddhist scrolls from as far back at the eighth century are framed by layers of intricate fabrics and papers. The calligraphy itself is written in bold black and gold ink, and the centuries-old paper on which it is written often has its own subtle decoration. There are also personal letters and poetry; some of the texts are written out phonetically, in order for visitors to sound out the original cadences, and some are translated into...
...This view of the good life assumes that we have a birthright to happiness, and that suffering is an unfortunate and avoidable aberration, likely to be removed by political and economic change. Nothing could be further from the Buddhist view of compassion and happiness. In a famous Buddhist story, a young woman wanders the streets of a town with her dead infant in her arms, asking everyone she meets to bring him back to life. Someone directs her to the Buddha, who listens patiently and then promises to help if she brings him a mustard seed from a household that...