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Shakyamuni Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, was an Indian prince who lived in the sixth century B. C. At an early age his meditations led him to the conclusion that a life of renunciation and high thought was preferable to the delights of home and love. He regarded the charm of wealth and power as nothing but illusions, and left his father's palace in order to become a wandering ascetic. After many years of reclusion and concentrated thinking he began teaching his system of salvation which would deliver all living beings from sin and suffering. He taught that...
...purely Buddhist in origin, but pre-Buddhist divinities are also well represented in the Buddhist sanctuaries of the present day. The very gods whose worship was denounced as useless or reprehensible by Shakyamuni Buddha occupy important positions in a great number of temples. Brahma, the creator, a purely Indian divinity, is worshipped by many present day Buddhists...
...Indian Buddhist missionaries who went to preach their doctrine in foreign lands could not always overcome the love of their converts for certain native, non-Indian, divinities. The new members of the Buddhist community could not forget some of the gods worshipped by their ancestors for many generations, and means had to be found to reconcile the new faith with such deep-rooted sympathies...
...many instances the missionaries resorted to a compromise; they declared the most beloved native gods as nothing but incarnations of certain accepted members of the Indian Buddhist pantheon. This method was most successfully carried through in Japan where the first Buddhist missionaries arrived in the sixth century A. D. They were confronted by a firmly established native pantheon in that country and succeeded in identifying almost all Japanese gods with their own, imported divinities. As a result of that procedure, Shintoism, the national religion of Japan, was all but absorbed by the new faith, and most Shinto temples were administered...
...Chicago, the Chicago Bears beat the Chicago Cardinals 34-0 in a professional football game. Playing for the Cardinals was Jim Thorpe, famed Indian of Carlisle, once the "greatest all-around athlete and the greatest football player who ever lived," who played baseball for the Giants, won the Olympic pentathlon in 1912, and is now 44. He played badly and was removed from the game...