Word: dharma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...priests in the U. S., intoned: "This candi date desires ordination." Red-robed Bishop Kenju Masuyama, head of all Buddhist temples in North America, placed a kesa (stole) around the neck of yellow-robed Mrs. Pratt. Chanted she: "I take my refuge in Buddha. I take my refuge in Dharma. I take my refuge in Sangha." Thus Mrs. Pratt entered the life of Upasika Bhikum ("Utmost Perfection of Womanly Virtue"). Taking a new name, Teiun, she continued her old work : teaching U. S. and Japanese Buddhist children in Tacoma...
Died. Dr. Sri Leodi Ahmed Mazzini-ananda, 106, Bishop of the American Buddhist Church of Dharma. friend of the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with whose spirit he tried to communicate in July 1930; in Oakland, Calif...