Word: lamaism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lamaism's most important "Living Buddha...
...Among those later named: former Premier T. V. Soong, Foreign Minister Wang Shih-chieh, and the Mongolian Changchia Hutuketu-one of Lamaism's most important "Living Buddhas...
...first meeting with radio. Last month, it started broadcasting over WBZ's FM circuit its famed, formidable Free Public Lectures. But these, and not only because of FM's present limited audience, could never expect to draw many listeners. Reason: lecture subjects include such topics as Lamaism, the Buddhism of Tibet and Mongolia and Applications of Seismological Techniques to Engineering Problems...
...square miles, with an average altitude of 16,000 feet-is one of the coldest places in the world. For all its long history, it is also one of the most benighted. Tibet is one of the world's last theocracies: its culture centres about its religion, Lamaism, a form of Buddhism which was brought up from India through the Himalayan passes in the 7th Century. This hierarchical faith, with its priests, abbots, lamas (monks), hutukhtus ("Living Buddhas"), is headed by two infallible incarnations-the Panchen Lama, a spiritual teacher or "Buddha of Boundless Light," and the Dalai Lama...