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...specimen, one of the earliest examples of printing in the world and the only exhibit of its kind in America, is a Chinese prayer scroll, recovered from the famous Red Pagoda in Hangchow after nearly ten centuries of burial...
Eighty-four thousand copies of the same sutra, he says, were printed by order of Prince Ch'ien Su, of the Kingdom of Wu-yueh, and deposited in the cavities, made in the bricks user to build the pagoda on West Lake, Hangchow, which in later centuries became to be known as the Lai-Fung Pagoda. Tourists call it the Red Pagoda because of its color...
...school, Widow Ament will retain control of National Park Seminary Co. which owns its "physical properties." These comprise a woodsy 200-acre campus with 44 buildings, including eight resident clubhouses built in the style of various nations. The English has a drawbridge, the Chinese resembles a pagoda. Other National Park wonders are a ballroom with 24 balconies, acres of antique furniture purchased by Dr. Ament during his travels, a Negro kitchen staff which appears on a balcony over the dining room to sing spirituals during meals. National Park's 120 students, aged from 14 to 21, pay from...
...lotus petals. Turning temporarily from his plans, the little Japanese took the gold Buddha down to Fresno, about halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. There Rinban Masuyama gave the statue to a Fresno priest named Enryo Shigefuji, and spent the weekend elevating Fresno's two-story, pagoda-roofed Temple to the status of San Francisco's that of Betsu-in or chief in the locality...
...crystal globe the size of a golf ball in a small gold pagoda in a large black onyx pagoda on a table in the second-floor study in a house in San Francisco last week rested a tiny object the size of a rice grain. Bishop Kenju Masuyama and two priests, their hands clasped, meditated before it, chanting softly in Japanese. The tiny pellet, they believed, was an authentic bit from the bones of Buddha,* only one in the U. S. Bishop Masuyama, head of the Buddhist Church in North America (12,000 members), got it in Siam last June...