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Buddhism is one of the most pervasive of all religions, and theologically one of the most accommodating. In the 2,500 years since Gautama Buddha first preached his doctrines in India, they have spread over Asia like a billowing saffron robe. In the process, Buddhist doctrines have been porous enough to admit and blend with local beliefs, such as spirit-worship in Burma, Confucianism in China, and the ancestor worship of Japanese Shinto...
Nations with boundaries abolished, Welded in common by our Buddha, We come over mountains and oceans...
Then, while robed priests shook incense and chanted the Buddhist sutras, they bowed before a golden reliquary containing a fragment of Buddha's bones. In a welcoming speech, Prince Mikasa, Emperor Hirohito's youngest brother, told them: "I believe a new mission has been added to Buddhist circles all over the world-a mission to cope with the present atomic...
...control . . . But let us try to reserve a small corner somewhere on the surface of the earth where we Buddhists can form a nucleus for world survival . . . My idea is that the corner is one's individual self. For when this self is disciplined in the spirit of Buddha, free from all forms of hate and revenge, it naturally and inevitably expands and grows and by degrees spreads itself to cover the whole earth...
...Christ. Mende continued: "In all the great religious doctrines, the men who created them-Christ, Mohammed, Buddha and Confucius-worked for a popular human idea. They could not help that the doctrines they preached without personal ambitions came to be known by their names . . ." Mende warned the leaders to get their guidance from on high and to beware of "pseudo doctrinaires," who try to fashion their own Peronism. "The thoughts of General Perón and the thoughts of Madam Eva Perón, these can be ascertained instantly, because we have all their speeches from 1943 to date, duly...