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...victim had not yet sunk into the ground, his own wanderings by horse, cart, camel, and on foot, Dr. Ossendowski has not forgotten to look about him and learn. The last section of the book, in which he tells of the fabled "King of the World", and sets forth Buddhistic prophecies and miracles, is undoubtedly a more than unique thing. Strangest of all--the passage that causes the Christian reader to gasp as he suddenly and without warning runs his eye over it--is the first recorded appearance of the "King of the World". A Buddhist legend, a myth...
...there were only 1247 students in all schools of a modern sort under Chinese auspices, and yet, when in September, 1905, the government determined to establish a general system of public schools, before the end of that year they had established 5000 such, going so far as to convert Buddhist and Taoist temples into schoolrooms; and in 1918 under government auspices alone there were 134,000 schools and 4,500,000 students. This certainly is some speed in spite of a considerable mass...
There of these forthcoming works as volumes 28, 29 and 30 of the Harvard Oriental Series, edited by C. R. Lanman, professor of Sanskrit in the University, and Correspondent de I'Acedmie des Inscription et Belles-Lettres de I'Institutde France. The new volumes are called "Buddhist Legends", and are translations by Dr. E. W. Burlingame of a story-book written in the sacred language of Buddhism, the Pall, in Ceylon, 450 A. D. They give a vivid picture of ancient monastic life in India; a direct counterpart of the Legends of the Christian Saints...
...series on "Indian Art and Culture" will be given by Dr. Ananda Coomaraswamy in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon. Dr. Coomaraswamy, who is keeper of the Section on Indian Art in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will speak on "Buddhist Sculpture" and will illustrate his address with slides and photographs...
...Lecture on "Indian Art and Sculpture" VI. "Buddhist Sculpture," by Dr. Coomaraswamy, Lecture Room of Fogg Museum...