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...Buddhism is growing more chic by the minute. Latest evidence: the summer issue of Chicago Review, which contains nine articles on the subject, a poem, and an excerpt from Zen-loving, "beat" Novelist Jack (On the Road) Kerouac's forthcoming The Dharma Bums. Begins Kerouac: "LET THERE BE BLOWING-OUT AND BLISS FOREVERMORE...
...legendary founder is Bodhi-Dharma, "the blue-eyed monk," who came to China from India in the 6th century A.D. Imported to Japan in the 12th century, Zen flourished so mightily that it eventually modified most phases of Japanese life, notably in the elaborate code of conduct called Bushido and in the arts of poetry, spinning, flower-arranging, swordplay, archery, and the famed, highly stylized tea ceremony...
...Bhutan, like Tibet, was ruled jointly by a high lama, the Dharma Raja, who was believed to be the reincarnation of Buddha himself, and a temporal leader, the Deb Raja. Finding a new reincarnation of Buddha when the old one died was always a trouble. It involved waiting several years and then finding a baby who would proclaim his identity by recognizing certain suitable symbols. By 1907 Bhutan's lamas, grown fat and indolent with centuries of rule, got too lazy to hunt for a new Raja. The government was taken over by a local governor, the Tongsa Penlop...
...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...