Word: hongwanji
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...Gumyoji, as in every Japanese prison, there was a Buddhist priest of the Hongwanji sect - in charge of the library, observer of prisoners' behavior and recommender of shortened sentences. These priests also conduct Sunday services in which they sing hymns to tunes taken from the English hymnal, words altered to fit Buddhist doctrine ("Buddha loves me"). The priests exert a powerful influence and beatings never occur until after they have gone for the night...
...president of the Japanese House of Peers. One hundred acolytes, 700 chanting priests, 20,000 communicants crowded the ceremony. At its conclusion the bride, wearing eleven kimonos, gave away 1,500,000 fans; the groom gave away 1,500,000 yen ($420,000). Wedding gifts: a castle from Nishi-Hongwanji followers, five kinds of fresh fish (harbingers of happiness) from Empress Nagako...
Like Christianity, Buddhism includes many a sect. One of the more potent is the Jodo-shinshu sect, founded in Japan 700 years ago. Month ago in the Hompa Hongwanji Temple in Kyoto, Japan, Abbot Otani, head of the sect, blessed a two-foot image of Lord Buddha, carved of wood and covered with eight layers of gold leaf. Last week an envoy of Abbot Otani arrived in San Francisco with the image, turned it over to Rinban, or Bishop, Kenju Masuyama, the Occidental-looking head of some 50,000 U. S. members of the Jodo-shinshu sect...
...opinion continued with honest simplicity to support the Japanese Army's action in Manchuria for what it was, a land grab. But Japan has her equivalent to an Archbishop of Canterbury. Voluminous in his sombre robe, the Buddhist Elder, Count Kozui Otani, Lord Abbot Emeritus of the Great Western Hongwanji Temple at Kyoto, summoned U. S. correspondents and sonorously declared...
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