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...simple Buddhist funeral was next held for "Premier Okada," who ventured out and actually attended it, masquerading as his brother-in-law, "Colonel Matsuo." The corpse was reverently interred, and the only thing which might have given the show away was that the Emperor, who by this time knew the amazing truth, did not send the customary condolences and imperial presents for the Dead. This omission went unnoticed...
...such a thrust, if it should come, Russia is now frantically rushing to completion a Second Trans-Siberian Railway north of Lake Baikal. Main fighting last week was near Lake Bor, which Japanese say is 18 miles inside the Manchu Empire and irate Mongols consider theirs. An ancient Buddhist temple with thick walls impressed commanders on both sides as worth fighting for-an ideal stronghold for the winner. As rifles crackled, the Japanese officers joyfully saw two bombing planes approaching, assumed them to be Japanese, the only kind ever seen in those parts. Instead, the thundering birds were Mongols with...
...name the world knows had enjoyed the same success it would have been psychologically much greater. At week's end cables from Tientsin announced that the great "Scholar War Lord," Marshal Wu Pei-fu, had agreed to end eight years of erudite and pious seclusion in a Buddhist monastery to rule North China...
...credo. Not that your Old Fellow's stint around your heads--but it's one way of suggesting to you gentlemen who would be on the scholastic road this morning something about the Chinese philosophy of life. So, bless his soul, the Vagabond is not a Taoist or a Buddhist or a Confucian--though they serve as a basis for the popular religion in China today--no, the Old Rover's way is to make a system of systems. Prithee, "What is truth...
...longer possible to have books like these reprinted, because a Mohammedan uprising in 1928 destroyed the wooden blocks of a Buddhist monastery on the Gansu-Thibetan border, where similar printing had been carried...