Word: japanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amid the chanting of sutras, the sounding of gongs and the curling smoke of burning incense. Chief Abbot Oda Sesso was ordaining a head priest for the Zen Buddhist temple of Daitokuji Ryosen-An in Kyoto, Japan. The new Zen priest gravely accepted the kesa -the richly brocaded red-and-gold silk scarf that is the mark of the priesthood -and assumed the Buddhist name of Jyokei. But in Chicago, where she was born 65 years ago, her name was Ruth Fuller. Last week she became the first American in history to be admitted to the Japanese Buddhist priesthood...
...Married to a wealthy Chicago lawyer, she dug deeper into Buddhism, decided that what she wanted was enlightenment, and the way to enlightenment was meditation. "But to find out how to practice meditation in America was an impossibility." On a trip to China and Japan in 1930, she and her husband met Zen Master Dr. Daisetz Suzuki, and Ruth asked him how one went about learning to meditate. "If you can come back to Japan and study for some time." he said, "perhaps you can find...
...Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, its 16 Asian member nations had an aggregate net deficit of $2.1 billion for the first half of 1957 alone v. a deficit of $750 million for all of 1955. To make it worse, the area's share (excluding Japan) of world trade, which stood at 10.7% of the total in 1950, has now declined...
...Constellations. In service last year, the planes promptly started losing $350,000 a month for Thai. Now the planes are grounded because the airline does not have enough money to operate them. Philippine Air Lines almost came a cropper by pushing too hard on international flights to the U.S., Japan and Europe, lost so heavily that the late Philippine President Magsaysay finally called a halt...
Leeches & Tigers. This despairing India is not the only one seen by Author Alexander Campbell, a 45-year-old Scot who did an 18-month correspondent's hitch in India and Pakistan for TIME (and now covers Japan). But it dominates a highly personalized book that makes bitterly clear how far Indian intentions outrun Indian performance, how even the monuments and pastimes of the imperial past are decayed in the ineffectual present. The Taj Mahal is here, naturally by moonlight-but so are the leechlike guides, making the night hideous as they clamorously offer to show visitors around...