RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1966
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FOREIGN RELATIONS OF BUDDHISM

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been told by one eminent abbot that those Christians who are militantly anti-Buddhist and call the dharma "nothing but lies" will be reborn in hell and punished by Yen-lo Wang. Even persons sympathetic towards Buddhism do not escape censure. Dr. K. L. Reichelt, the Norwegian missionary, found much to admire, particularly in Pure Land devotion, and he incorporated Buddhist motifs - even the burning of incense in the altar arrangements of his Christian Mission to the Buddhists, first in Nanking and later in Hong Kong. The architect for its buildings in Hong Kong was no less a person than J. Prip-Møller, who designed it in the pattern of the Buddhist monasteries he had spent four years studying. There was a refectory, library, and a wandering monks hall, where pilgrims could stay in the usual manner. Gradually they were introduced to Christian doctrines and diverted with swimming, games, and language instruction. Many of them became converts, some even Christian pastors. The ingenuity of all this has seemed Machiavellian to some Chinese Buddhists. One abbot bitterly called it "that place that specializes in destroying Buddhism."44

Christian Converts to Buddhism

The humiliation that Chinese Buddhists had suffered vis-à-vis Christianity, when added to the humiliation they felt as Chinese vis-à-vis the West, made it very sweet for them to find that a few Western Christians had been converted to Buddhism. They gave a handsome welcome to B. L. Broughton, the vice president of the Maha Bodhi Society of London, who spent six weeks touring Chinese Buddhist institutions in 1933 and was the first Englishman to receive the bodhisattva ordination.45 They also welcomed Dwight Goddard from Santa Barbara, who came soon afterwards to get help with translations; M.W. Anthony, the first American to receive the bodhisattva ordination (on May 26, 1936); John Blofeld, who stayed at many monasteries in the late 1930's; and Miss Ananda Jennings, who went to study meditation at the Nan-hua Szu in 1949. Probably the most famous Christian convert was Trebitch-Lincoln, born Ignatz Trebitsch in 1879. The son of a rich Jewish grain dealer near Budapest, he received an orthodox education, but thereafter his curriculum vitae probably has no parallel in modern times:
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RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1987
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FIELD, A D

26.10.1882 FIELD. Frederick

8.8.1932 Arthur

FINNICKE, Harry J

17.7.1906 FINNICKE, Robert J

17.11.1905 FISHER, Robert

25.4.1893 FITZPATRICK,

18.7.1951 Christine

FITZPARTICK, Suzanne 18.7.1951 FORREST, John Haslem 23.3.1947

FLUGS, Berthold

3.6.1914 FOTHERMIGHANI,

1.5.1918 FRASER, Harry Frame

5.12.1932 David FREI, Robert

31.10.1901 Sommerville

FREIDRICH, Rudolf

25,12,1881 FROST, Theresa L

13.7.1894 FYFE, Jane Charlotte

19.10.1883 GALBREATH, Jean

26.10.1918 Abergromby

GIBSON, Richard Mends

16.11.1865 McBride McQueene GIBSON, John Hayton

26.1.1932 GILBERT, George

17.4.1912 GOEBEL, Karl H

30.1.1945 GILCHRIST, Maggie

Wtson Brand GOETTE, Karl Joseph

7.7.1902 21.12.1906 GOLDENBERG, Issac

Not known GOTH, Charles

1.11.1878 GRAHAM, Charles

1880 GRATTIS, L (child of)

7.8.1881 George GROTH, Adolph Alex

Not known GRUENBERG, Moses

17.1.1883 Erdmann Joseph GRUENBERT, Joseph

2.6.1882 GRUMBACH, Henry

7.12.1904 GRUPE, Henriette

31.8.1882 GRUPE, Bodo

27.7.1873 GRUPE, Herta

20.5.1873 GUTHEREZ, Edel

24.10.1883 HAFTENDER, John

21.6.1869 HAIR, John

9.11.1941 Wroughton HALFON, Jose

1919 HALL, James L

1.3.1936 HANDE, C

9/10.1882 HANSARDUM,

7.7.1903 Johannes L HANSON, Mary

10.2.1963 HARE, Frederick

24.3.1872 HARRISON, John James 28.2.1947

HAUSMANN, J

Not known HAWKES, Esther

22.4.1910 HAWKINS, Ronald

5.4.1948 HAYWARD, Sydney 12.8.1918

HEARD, William D

3.12.1909 Malcolm Crosswell HEDDERWICK, Donald 15.8.1909

HEELOZ, Heinrich

6.1.1878 Ness HEDGES, J Blake

5.2.1941 HENS, J Ph

5.6.1889 HENTRICH, Theodor

13.10.1912 HERALD, Hugh

11.12.1898 Dietrich HERBE, Sydney

HESLOP, Mrs Fred

16.12.1902 Not known HERRIDGE, James

HICKEY, John Vincent

+ 11.11.1945 Russell

17.4.1946 HIGHAM, F James

25.1.1945 HINDE, John B

11.2.1926 HIRAMOTO, O

26.9.1908 HIRAMOTO, Baby

Not known Katsu HOFFMEISTER, Carl

25.6.1913 HOLDEN, LE

16.5.1924 Heinrich Hubert HOLLOMBY, Bettina

29.3.1926 HOLLYER, William

9.12.1944 George HOMANN, August Emil 8.8.1926

HOMBURG, G

7.3.1890 HONISS, Albert

3.8.1874 HOOPER, Ralph

28.5.1899 Wemyss
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