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Word: ikibosatu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pictures. Samples: loinclothed priests playing mah-jongg instead of sitting in immobile meditation, a priest drinking with a bar hostess, two novices staggering along a Kobe street late at night with a barmaid between them. Tsuchiya quoted one priest as saying: "By listening to good music and gazing on ikibosatu [the living Buddha], I feel I can understand the teachings." This wisdom was Tsuchiya's caption for a photograph of the same priest happily gaping at pictures of virtually naked women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Zensation | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

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