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VICTOR SCHERTZINGER

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ABOUT BUDDHA

LECTURE DELIVERED TO LOCAL THEOSOPHISTS

The Hermitage. of the Lord Buduha" was the title of a lecture given in the Lodge Room of the Manuk Lodge of the Theosophical Society on Thursday evening by Mr. V. 9. C. Bingham.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1935

WOMAN SCIENTIST

MLLE, COLAIN IN COLONY.

NAVAL VISITS

JAPANESE ADMİNAL AT

·MACAO

A 53-year-old woman scientist,

Macao, Feb. 16. Vice-Admiral Hyakutake, Com Mile. Colain of French Indo-China, has had the distinction of being mander-in-chief of the Japanese the only member of her sex repre- Naval Forces in China, visited sonted at the Second Asiatic Tre- Macão to-day aboard the Japanese The subject, said the speaker, was historie Research Congress, which gunboat Saga, and called on Hi one of great importance, as was shown has just finished its labours at Excellency the Governor. by the fact that it was revered and Manila,, honoured by millions of mankind. For the best part of twenty

India's contribution to the progress!

The Japanese man-of-war

en-

of the world is in fact a religious years, Mille. Colain has interestedtored the port at 8 p.m., saluting rather than a material one: and in herself in the rich field for rathe port by the firing of cannon, the religions of India no one figure is, search presented by the early and was replied to by a battery of more sutstanding importance than history of that southermost belt on Gula Hill. A salute from the that of Gautama Buddha, who, known of Asia which includes Slam, Portuguese gunboat Macau was at firai as the Prince Siddartha, Was Cambodia.

Annam.then replied to by the Japanese Loos and born at Lumbini in the Himalayas, the

Successivo tidee of conquest(ship: son of a king, and surrounded by

His Excellency the Governor, drawn to leave his wife and child, west, through Burma and the Shan Lieut. A. J. Bernardes do Miranda, every comfort and luxury: yet he was sweeping down from the north- parents and friends and pleasurable country, and from the north-east presented his compliments to the surroundings, by the desire to find through Yunnan and Kwangsi, Japanese Admiral on the Japaneso some way of relieving the sorrow and have left their impress in the mix vessol shortly after the arrival, missrice of his subjects, and for their ture of culturea to be found in and the Japanese officer, accom sakes he journayed into the wiktor-those countrice. The magnificent

ners, discarded all comforts and fine ruins of Angkor, In Cambodia, and Panico by his staff, then called on clothes for the yellow robo and bowl other rolls of another age in the Governor of Macao. of a beggar, and lived in meditation

This evening the Governor Macao entertained the

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for alx years in the cave at Gays Annam and Laos, are all that now

'After his years of hermit's life he survive to speak of the Khmer of left the cave and went to the temple and Cham civilizations, two of visitor and several officers of by the river, where, under the sacred those successive cultures combin the Japanese gunboat at din- at Government House.-- Hodhl-tree he received enlightenmont Ing to make the carller history of ner and became the Lord Buddha. The Further India a fascinating study Our Own Correspondent. temple is surrounded by masses of for Mlle. Colalni.

The Japanese cruiser Kuma loft trees, but in front is an open sunliti MIlo. Colain earlier this harbour yesterday, her destination

In Hongkong not being revealed.

to Manila, Vico-Admiral Hyakutake was on

arrived

her way

space, for Buddha was also known as the "Friend of the Sun." From here month he went on to Benares, where he start-on ed to speak and spread his doctrine, Inter leaving here in company with board and buglers from British continuing to do so until the time of the Hongkong delegates, Professor men o' war in harbour sounded a his entering into Nirvana at Kust. Sheilshear, Rev. Fr. Finn, 8. J., farewell as the cruiser passed with

and Mr. W. E. Schofield, to attend her crew lined up on fleck. the Congress. On the termination

Chinese Visit of the Conference, she returned to Hongkong inst Friday, and on the Admiral Y. C. Klang, Comman- following day left by the 8.8.der of the Yui Hai Cruiser, Sqna- Canton on her way back to Hanoi.dron and head of the Canton Naval College, is expected here on Tues- day with the cruisera Hai Chi and Hai Shen.

Indo-China.

A Shrine Cayn is now in the hands of the Hindur, although the Buddhists have recently attempted to persuade the: Government to restore it to them, wishing to hold the place as a shrine for Duddhist pilgrims, and hoping to establish thero a Buddhist University. For to them this place where the Buddha received enlightenment is the of Induism and those of the Buddha,

The Admiral will be aboard the centre of the world. While the broad- and there seems now to be a tendency Hai Chi and both ships will

pro- minded indus recognize Buddha's for Buddhism to spread and displace greatness the more erthodox among the more narrow and orthodox Brahbably dock during their stay here, The cruisers Hai Chi and Hai them will not do no. In ancient miniem. times Buddhism was regarded as'n re The Hermitage of the Lord Buddha Shen, formerly belonged to the ligion not conforming with Hindufam, at Gaya is well worthy of a visit by Peiping Squadron, stationed and so the Buddhists were driven out, any one who is able to go there, for Teingtao. They revolted against many of them going to Ceylon where there is to be found an atmosphere of the northern authorities in 1933 they took with them, and planted, a holiness, making an impression im- and after a dificult voyage arrived branch of the sacred Bodhi-tree, possible to forget, eyen many years and surrendered themselves to the Afterwards their teachings spread after. To go there impresses or us Canton Government. eastwards as far as China and Japan, the conviction that the Lord Buddhn The Hal Chi and Hai Shen and This explains why the ancient shrines was indeed one of ourselves, moved by one other gunboat from Tsingtao of Buddha In India are held by the the sufferings and miserles he saw Hindus, while in other parts of the around to seek for salvation for the were reorganised by the Canton East Buddhism in prevalent. And world: and that every one of us can, Government to form the Yui Hai yet Buddha himself was a Hindu, and and will in time rise to the state of aquadron under Admiral one of the greatest reformors of Buddha-hood, if we have the deter-Kiang of the Hal Chi. Thin ship Hinduism. In essence there is nomination to carry out the slops of the and the Hai Shen are the biggest

In Canton. difference between the broad teachings | Way---Contributed.

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