Word: hsu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week this disciple set foot in Manhattan. Clad in a robe of orange silk he stepped softly down America's gangplank in small felt slippers. His eyes behind heavy spectacles were incurious. He is Tai Hsu (pronounced Ty Shü), onetime abbot of the Pai-Yun-Se Temple near Canton, and conceded China's foremost Buddhist...
...Hsu, however, has a missionary-like ambition "to increase human felicity, virtue and intelligence, and to achieve universal peace and happiness." Tai Hsu believes Buddhism can achieve these things. In U.S. colleges and universities, therefore, he will explain his doctrines. But unlike most Christian missionaries, he will seek to convert no unbelievers. He intends merely to offer his beliefs for intelligent examination, letting those accept who wish...
...also another purpose: to establish in Europe or in the U.S. a Buddhist Institute. In Paris a grant of land has already been given him. But Tai Hsu has not yet accepted. The Institute's purpose will be to clarify Buddhism to the Western world, to represent Buddhism as a religion nowhere antagonistic to scientific theories...
Following the murder of "Little Hsu" (Hsu Shu-tseng) his friend, Chief Executive Tuan Chi-jui, announced that he had asked Hsu...
Died. General Hsu Shu-cheng ("Little Hsu"), friend of Tuan Chijui (Chief Executive of China), shot to death at Langfang...