Word: mahayana
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Later, in China, flowered the sublimest school of Buddhism, the Mahayana (Great Vehicle). And so, it is explained, from China there now issues "the greatest 20th century disciple of Buddha...
...oeuvre no less prodigious. Pyramidal in shape, it rises tier on tier, each tier a gallery ornamented with sculpture and symbolic devices in unparalleled profusion. The pilgrim, ascending by these galleries, traverses a distance of three miles past carvings which constitute a pictorial Bible of the late or "Mahayana" creed. The intent is that the pious shall climb from temporal vulgarities-depicted with unblushing naturalism in the lower galleries-to ever higher religious concepts which are exampled by a symbolism progressively refined, as the worshiper toils upward. When the supreme dagoba is reached and entered a crude and only half...