Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accuracy of atmosphere and circumstance is corroborated by this loth Century Japanese diary. Sei Shonagon was in the service of Empress Sadako at the elaborate court of Heian. Not the least of her qualifications for the post was her handwriting-the cult of calligraphy amounting almost to a religion at court. Love affairs often began by some chance view of a lady's writing. On scented rice-paper Shonagon traced her delicate characters, decorating her "poems" with puns and symbols, word play and subtle metaphors. Her diary is less fancy and more amusing than her verse. She divided experience...
...system for directing civilization; as such it may appeal to Harvard men unsatisfied with the specific details of daily classes and the restricted subjects of their theses. For those who like to discuss in leisurely fashion the facts and philosophies of history and their bearing on current problems of religion and on such personal problems as fraternities, and who wish to formulate standards of judgment and conduct, this book should be a stimulus, presenting as it does much wide-ranging information with the common sense of an American gentleman
Such an author is Mr. Hill, who endeavors, we are told, to explore the mind and emotions of the adolescent boy in his response to sex, religion and beauty. It would have been simpler, and, perhaps, more exact to have omitted religion and beauty. For the author of "Plundered Host" as for the great majority of the writers of similar works, religion, beauty and all the other objects of emotion, are synonymous with sex; their religion has its origin below the belt, and their beauty is almost invariably lighted by a red lamp...
...about to cross a bridge known to be condemned. He will suppose, courteously, that the man knows what he is doing. However should the man inquire if the bridge be safe, the Buddhist will tell him. Similarly Buddhists do not generally interfere with other people's religion nor try to lead them from paths they have chosen...
...purpose: to establish in Europe or in the U.S. a Buddhist Institute. In Paris a grant of land has already been given him. But Tai Hsu has not yet accepted. The Institute's purpose will be to clarify Buddhism to the Western world, to represent Buddhism as a religion nowhere antagonistic to scientific theories...