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...Buddhist priest, representing a league of 6,000,000 Japanese, traveled to Washington to see the President...
...would be highly impudent of me, a stranger from across the sea, to address the President of the United States, were it not for the fact that I have traveled many thousands of miles only to deliver to him a message which millions upon millions, who believe in the Buddhist teachings of mercy and tolerance as expounded by the great Saint Nichiren, of Japan, wish me to deliver...
...Mallerdean, in the Peking Customs Service, whose great-great uncle first got a foot in China's open door by curing the Emperor Chienlung of his gout and temper. A most provocative mixture of fact and fancy, some at least of Mallerdean's adventures in the "lost Buddhist temple beyond the Western Hills" have a basis of historical truth, vouched for by the author's intimate knowledge of his locale...
...chapel", he said, "is carved out of the rock cliff. It is about 40 feet square and every inch of the walls is carved with Buddhist figures. In the center there is a natural rock pillar which supports the chapel, on which are carved large elephant heads facing the four corners of the earth. As the elephant is not a native animal to China, Indian or Buddhist influences were firmly entrenched in China in the 5th century...
...were out to find what we could about ancient Chinese Buddhist art and not on a trip for plunder. The conditions and surroundings in which these ancient treasures are found are almost as important in our search for knowledge of the ancient Chinese civilization as the art treasures themselves. It is regrettable that so much of the Chinese art imported to this country in recent years has been removed from its native surroundings without accurate records of the place from where it was taken...