Word: nirvana
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...twirled their prayer-wheels uneasily, muttering the potent Buddhist charm: Om mani padme hum ("Hail to the jewel in the lotus flower"). Three nights before, some 1,000 miles to the southwest of Peiping, the great Dalai Lama, Venerable Ocean Treasure and Jewel of Majesty, had gone to his Nirvana, aged 60, in the Potala, his massive fortress-palace in Lhasa high on the bleak plateau of Tibet. Dead, some said, of poisoning, was the 13th reincarnation of Buddha, absolute ruler of Tibet and of many a Buddhist elsewhere, Ah-Wang-Lo-Pu-Tsang-To-Pu-Tan -Chia...
...moment he toys with the idea of completing this marvelous day by inviting his soul in a boat, but his more mundane friends, drag him off on their worldly course. The Easter afternoon blurs and shimmers in a quintessential furor of sheer delight. The Vagabond realizes that Nirvana is near. The day wears away; the sun is setting in a receptive, motherly, western glow; in a culminative ecstasy of bliss, the Vagabond sits on the edge of a pool in the Common, watching the dying orb, and dabbling in the placid water with the tips of his toes...
Alien to most busy folk in the U. S. is the Buddhist hope to reach Nirvana by self-sacrifice, contemplation, suppression of passion. Nevertheless, now & then some inquisitive or discontented Westerner adopts Buddhism. Last year a Mrs. Margaret E. Ledson, 33, California divorcee, became the first U. S. Buddhist nun. F. M. Ormsby and L. A. Coburn of Boise, Idaho, became Buddhist monks, begged in the streets of Kyoto for seven months. Many a German and British Buddhist has gone to Ceylon to practice the faith, apparently more as a system of ethics than anything else. These scattered converts...
...surrendered to Fate at last. Next Saturday, good citizens will buy their tabloids all unheeding, and there will be few to weep. But somewhere on the Styx, the shades that once thronged Rector's, Sherry's, and Delmonico's are remembering their old pink sheet. And in that Nirvana where horses go, many an old jade is tossing his head in memory of the Victorias and four-in-hands...
...Denman Ross '75. Some of the prints in the exhibition are uncolored, while others are decorated in many brilliant shades. One of the finest in the collection is "Buddha Accompanied by Two Buddhists" all in golden dress, done about 1750. An example of the earliest tempre painting is the "Nirvana of Buddha" from the fourteenth or fifteenth centuries. These remarkable Japanese works of art were made by monks in temples and sold at the doors to the people, who took them home as sacred relics...