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...week before a brand new bronze statue in the Kuonji temple gardens of Yamanashi Prefecture, 70 mi. from Tokyo. Musical instrument dealers bought bowls of sacred rice, hoped business would be better. Foreigners inspected the statue with interest. They saw a heroic bronze figure in the robes of a Buddhist priest but with the head of a large shaggy dog. In his lap rested a Buddhist nun with the head of a cat. Balanced precariously on top of the dog-headed priest was a little figure of Buddha, blessing the pair...
...Atheist 2) Mohammedan 3) Buddhist 4) Mormon 5) Spiritualist Episcopal 6) Roman Catholic 7) Jew 8) Greek Orthodox 9) Christian Scientist 10) Unitarian 11) Adventist 12) Universalist 13) Pentecostal 14) Salvation Army 15) Protestant Episcopal 16) Disciple 17) Lutheran 18) Friend 19) Baptist 20) Congregational 21) Presbyterian 22) Methodist...
...Five groups, the atheist, the Mohammedan, the Buddhist, the Mormon, and the Spiritualist . . . are disapproved cordially and with one accord...
Three St. Bernard monks (Augustinians), experts both as snow rescuers and proselytizers, left their Grand Hospice in Switzerland last week for Salouen, Tibetan village near the source of the great Yellow River. Salouen is 14,000 ft. high, cold, blustery as the Alpine heights. It is a Buddhist shrine. The St. Bernard group will build a hospice there, will try to convert, Buddhist pilgrims to Roman Catholicism, will succor the snowbound, be they converts or heathen...
Chiang is as much a Conqueror as was Constantine I (288-337 A.D.), the Roman general who espoused Christianity when convinced that by the Sign of the Cross he would conquer, and who did conquer Rome itself, became emperor. Two years ago, when still a Buddhist, General Chiang, with his Christian wife praying for him, conquered all of China proper (TIME, June 21, 1928 et ante). He has just been through a long summer of battles to consolidate his conquest. Last week there was no apparent reason, except sincere conviction, why the president should have gone to his mother...