All 4 Uses of
Buddhism
in
Hiroshima, by John Hersey
- The doctor was too busy to visit him in Ushida, but he dispatched a nurse, who recognized his symptoms as those of mild radiation disease and came back from time to time to give him injections of Vitamin B. A Buddhist priest with whom Mr Tanimoto was acquainted called on him and suggested that moxibustion might give relief; the priest showed the pastor how to give himself the ancient Japanese treatment, by setting fire to a twist of the stimulant herb moxa placed on the wrist pulse.†
Chpt 4Buddhist = someone who believes in the teaching of Buddha -- that life is permeated with suffering and that suffering ceases when desire ceases
- 'Miss Kayoko Nobutoki, a student of girl's high school, Hiroshima Jazabuin, and a daughter of my church member, was taking rest with her friends beside the heavy fence of the Buddhist Temple.†
Chpt 4 *
- She was not religious, but she lived in a culture long colored by the Buddhist belief that resignation might lead to clear vision; she had shared with other citizens a deep feeling of powerlessness in the face of a state authority that had been divinely strong ever since the Meiji Restoration in 1868; and the hell she had witnessed and the terrible aftermath unfolding around her reached so far beyond human understanding that it was impossible to think of them as the work of resentable human beings, such as the pilot of the Enola Gay, or President Truman, or the scientists who had made the bomb — or even, nearer at hand, the Japanese militarists who had helped to bring on the war.†
Chpt 5
- The remains were cremated and buried in the grounds of the Night of the Lotus Temple, of the Jodo Shinshu sect of Buddhism, near his maternal family home in Nagatsuka.†
Chpt 5Buddhism = the teaching of Buddha that life is permeated with suffering and that suffering ceases when desire ceases
Definition:
the teaching of Buddha that life is permeated with suffering, that suffering ceases when desire ceases, and that suffering and rebirth end when enlightenment is obtained through right conduct, wisdom and meditation