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STHE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1935.

ABOUT BUDDHA

WOMAN SCIENTIST

LECTURE DELIVERED TO

LOCAL THEOSOPHISTS

MİLLE. COLAIN IN COLONY

of the

NAVAL VISITS

JAPANESE ADMIRAL: AT MACAO

"The Hermitage of the Lord

Macao, Feb. 10, A 68-year-old woman scientist, Buddha" was the title of a lecture Mile. Coinin of French Indo-China, Vice-Admiral Hyakutako, Com- given in the Lodge Room Manuk Lodge of the Theosophical has had the distinction of being mander-in-chief of the Japanese Society on Thursday evening by Mr. the only member of hor nex repre- Naval Forces in China, visited sented at the Second Asiatle Pre-Macao today aboard the Japanese V. 9. C. Bingham.

The subject, said the speaker, was historic Research Congress, which gunboat Saga, and called on Hist one of great importance, as was shown has just finished its labours at Excellency the Governor.

The Japanese "man-of-war by the fact that it was revered and Manila, honoured by millions of mankind.

For the best part of twenty tered the port, at 8 p.m., saluting India's contribution to. the progress

сп-

of the world, is in fact a religious Years, Mlle. Colain has interested the port by the firing of cannon,

feld for re

tiden

the religions of India no one figure is search presented by the early of more outstanding importance than history of that southermost belt Gula Hill. A salute from the then replied to by the Japanese that of Gautama Buddha, who known of Asia which includes Slam, Portuguese gunboat Macau was

and Annam. at first as the Prince Siddartha, was Cambodia, Laos

ship. born at Lumbini in the Himalayas, the Successive

of conquest

His Excellency the Governor, son of a king, and surrounded swooping down from the north- every comfort and luxury yet he was drawn to leave his wife and child, went, through Burma and the Shan Lieut. A. J. Bernardes de Miranda, 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 Japanes some way of relloving the sorrows and have left their impress in the mix-vessel shortly after, the arrival, mineries of his subjects, and for their ture of cultures to be found in and the Japanese officer, accom sukes he journeyed Into the wilder those countries. The magniflecat panied by his staff, then called on ness, discarded all comforts and fine ruins of Angkor, in Cambodia, and the Governor of Macao. clothes for the yellow robe and bowl

other relics of another age in

This evening the

of a beggar, and lived in meditation Annam and Laos, are all that now Macao

for six years in the cavo al Gaya.

Governor entertained the

of

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 by the river, where, under the sacred those successive cultures combin- the Japanese gunboat at din- at Government House- Bothl-tres my received-enlightenment ing to make the earlier history of ner and became the Lord Buddha. Tho Further India a fascinating study Our Own Correspondent. temple in surrounded by masses of for Mile. Colain. trees, but in front is an open sunlit space, for Buddha was also known the "Friend of the Sun." From here month he went on to Benares, where he start on ed to speak and spread his doctrine, continuing to do so until the time of hia entering into Nirvana at Kast.

A-Shrine

as

The Japanese cruiser Kuma loft Mile. Colain curlier this harbour yesterday, her destination

arrived in Hongkong not being revealed.

way her

to - Manila,

later loaving here in company with the Hongkong delegates, Professor Shellshear, Rev. Fr. Finn, 9. J and Mr. W. E. Schoheld, to attend the Congress. On the termination of the Conference, she returned to Hongkong last Friday, and on the following day left by the 8.3. Canton on her way back to Hanol,

Indo-China.

Vice-Admiral Hyakutake was on board and buglers from. British men o war in harbour sounded a farewell as the cruiser passed with her crew lined up on deck.

Chinese Visit

Admiral Y. C. Kinng, Comman- der of the Yui Hai Cruiser Squa dron and head of the Canton Naval College, is expected here on Tues- day with the cruisers Hai Chi and Hai Shen.

Gaya is now in the hands of the Hindes, although the Buddhists have recently attempted to persuado the Government to restore it to them, wishing to hold the place as a shrine for Buddhist pligrims, and hoping to establish there a Buddhist University. For to them this place where the

The Admiral will be aboard the Buddha received enlightenment is the of Hinduism and those of the Buddha, centre of the world. While the brond- and there seema now to be a tendency Hai Chi and both ships will pro- minded Hindus recognize Buddha's for Buddhism to spread and displace bably dock during their stay here. The cruisers Hai Chi and Hal greatness the more orthodox among the more varrow and orthodox Brah- them will not do 80. In ancient minism. times Buddhism was regarded as a re- The Hormitage of the Lord Buddha Shen, formerly belonged to the

visit by Peiping Squadron, stationed ligion not conforming with Hinduism, at Gaya is well worthy of

against and so the Buddhists were driven out any one who is able to go there, for Tsingtao. They revolted 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 difleult voyage arrived branch of the sacred Bodhi-tree possible to forget, even many years and surrendered themselves to the Afterwards their teachings spread after. To go there impresses on us Canton Government.

The Hal Chi and Hai Shen and -eastwards-as far as China and Japan. the conviction that the Lord Buddha

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 miseries he saw were reorganised by the Canton Hindas, while in other parts of the around to seck for salvation for the Government to form the Yui Hol East Buddhism is prevalent. And world: and that every one of us can, yet Buddha himself was a Hindu, and and will in time rise to the sinte of squadron, under Admiral Y. C. of the greatest reformers of Buddha-hood, if we have the deter- Kiang of the Ini Chi. This ship Hinduism. In essence there is nomination to carry out the steps of the and the Hai Shon are the biggest

in Canton. difference between the bread teachings Way.-Contribuírd.

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