Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following article on the religion founded by Buddha and the numerous sects that have grown out of it was written by Baron von Stael-Holstein, visiting lecturer at the University. Baron von Stael-Holstein who occupies the post of professor of Sanscrit at the National University of Peking is one of the lecturers who are at Harvard this year in connection with the Harvard-Yenching Institute...
...through in Japan where the first Buddhist missionaries arrived in the sixth century A. D. They were confronted by a firmly established native pantheon in that country and succeeded in identifying almost all Japanese gods with their own, imported divinities. As a result of that procedure, Shintoism, the national religion of Japan, was all but absorbed by the new faith, and most Shinto temples were administered by the Buddhist clergy. That state of things lasted until the middle of the nineteenth century when a number of temples were restored to purely Shintoist ownership, but very many traces of the amalgamation...
...Baron von Stael-Holstein to the Harvard collections as described in the news columns of this morning's CRIMSON, have an especial significance in that they enrich the shelves and panels of Widener and Fogg in a field which is comparatively untouched. Harvard is not alone in this; Oriental religion and literature is a book that a variety of influences have succeeded in keeping very nearly closed to the Occident. This gift is not the first sign that indicates Harvard, at least, is on the way to correcting the omission...
Hotel guests, not managers, took the initiative in the first effort to bring religion into the hotel...
...virgin birth of Jesus, and the verity of the miracle stories of the old and new Testament." God goes by many another name among Quakers: "the Seed, the Inner Light, the In-speaking Voice, the Christ within, the Word . . . The Hidden Dynamo, The Super-self, The World-father." And "religion as we understand it has nothing to fear from science...