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...hardboiled, stern Generalissimo, whose mother was a devout Buddhist, came under the influence of three powerful Christian influences in youth and early manhood-Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Mother" K. T. Soong and her daughter, Meiling. In 1930, three years after he had married the brilliant, Wellesley-educated Meiling, Chiang was baptized a Methodist, the faith of his wife and her family. But not until his captivity in Sian, by his testimony, did his religion become a part of himself, and thus a part of China...
Then she told of a trip she had taken to the Heng-Yang Mountains to see the "Rub-the-Mirror Pavilion." There, 2,000 years ago, a young Buddhist monk had sat crossed-legged for days muttering "Amita Buddha! Amita Buddha!" The Father Prior took a brick and rubbed it against a nearby stone until the acolyte asked what he was doing...
Ashoka (beloved of the gods) made India into a united nation in the 3rd Century B.C. He was "the only military monarch on record who abandoned warfare after victory." He also popularized Buddhist vegetarianism. After consolidating all India except the southernmost tip, Ashoka remorsefully swore off war, and ruled "for thirty-eight years, trying his utmost to promote peacefully the public good. He was always ready for public business 'at all times and at all places, whether I am dining or in the ladies' apartments, in my bedroom or in my closet, in my carriage...
...finds it difficult to understand Indian art-which, in any case, it rarely sees. Life for the Occidental is rarely "a prolonged sacrament"-the description of the life of the Indian given in Mr. Loo's catalogue. Hindu and Buddhist art, arising from intense spiritual concentration, assumed symbolic forms and sectarian twists that only long study can clarify. U.S. amateurs can merely distinguish between Hindu art (oddly vital) and Buddhist art (oddly serene...
Buddhism, which originated in India in the 5th Century B.C., had spread all over the East but practically disappeared from its homeland by the 13th Century A.D.The Buddhist ascendancy mellowed Indian sculpture into a less sensuous character. Instead of the bulbous breasts, swivel hips, wasp waists and whirling, multiple arms of Hinduism's gods, the Buddha had a repose of form and peace of countenance somewhat like that of the greatest Greek sculpture...