Word: buddhist
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...friendliness adopted by all speakers. Every one seemed to recognize the fact that they had come together to find their points of similarity and so to establish a feeling of brotherhood rather than to discuss their differences of opinion. How anyone could see there a Greek Archbishop, a Buddhist from China, and a Confucian from Japan sitting side by side with Episcopal and Roman Bishops, talking with them in a friendly and sympathetic way and even expressing the same sentiment-and then quarrel about trivial sectarian difference is hard to understand. Various minor congresses of different religions and sects were...
...gift was accompanied by a letter from which the following is quoted: "Allow me to present through you to the library of the Harvard Divinity School, an old temple hanging picture (kakemono) which I have brought from Japan. The picture is very old and the subject depicted is the Buddhist deity, Senju Korannon, here represented as the type of the Almighty Power. I am happy in placing this treasure of the old faith of the far East in the Harvard School library, where it may remind your students of how some of their fellow men have struggled to give form...