Word: buddha
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...attended the dinner of the Church Club, in Manhattan. After the banquet was over, he rose to his feet, looked fixedly toward the ceiling and delivered a short oration on U. S. customs and eccentricities. Said he: "... I have not yet summoned up courage enough to enthrone myself like Buddha in one of your shoeshine parlors...
...Buddhist paintings, with three exceptions, do not belong to the Hoyt collection, and of course are not as important as those to be found in the Boston Museum, which are the best outside the Orient. But these are of very real and decorative value. The Nirvana of the Buddha, half obliterated as it is, contains some splendid passages of color and most vivid drawings of the animals that mourn about the death couch...
...Empress Nagako of Japan was born a sister to her first child, Princess Shigeko Teru-No-Miya. Once again the Imperial Stork had failed to heed the gods of Shintoism and the great call of the great Lord Buddha for a son and heir to the august Imperial throne...
...times-great-grandson of Confucius.* Where is the university that can boast, as Pennsylvania may be able ten years from now, of having the honor to enlighten a scion of a founder of a 24-century-old philosophy? What bursar has collected fees from the seed of Plato, Aristotle, Buddha or Mohammed? Sheltered in his ducal palace, sustained by a state pension antedating Christianity, served by his stepmother (it is polygamy that has kept Confucius line unbroken) small Duke K'ung seemed to have an excellent chance of reaching an age where- U. S. immigration policy permitting-he might...
...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-hewn statue of the Buddha greets the eye amid carvings of supreme delicacy. Thus is symbolized the axiom that the Buddha is of a perfection impossible for mortals to realize or portray...