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	Modern History Sourcebook: St. Francis Xavier: Letter from Japan, to the Society of Jesus in Europe, 1552
		The bonzes, or bonzesses, in their monasteries teach letters to the girls and boys, though rich and noble persons intrust the education of their children to private tutors.
		The bonzes are persons of acute mind, and are very fond of studying, especially what relates to the future; they are fond of considering what will happen to them, what will be their end, and all questions of this nature.
		There were some of the bonzes who, in the course of their meditations, had come to believe that there was no way of saving souls in their system.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/1552xavier4.html (2832 words)

	Cambodia Buddhism
		The cornerstones of Cambodian Buddhism are the Buddhist bonze and the wat.
		Becoming a bonze and leaving the sangha are matters of individual choice although, in theory, nearly all Cambodian males over sixteen serve terms as bonzes.
		Even a son's temporary ordination as a bonze brings great merit to his parents, however, and is considered so important that arrangements are made at a parent's funeral if the son has not undergone the process while the parent was living.
	www.country-studies.com /cambodia/buddhism.html (3528 words)

	Francis Britto's Brittopia: Laures, "Xavier in Yamaguchi" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Their first questions were about the shape of the earth, the movements of the sun, and the comets, about lightening and thunder, snow and rain, etc. They showed great joy and satisfaction at Xavier's answers and respected him as a great scholar.
		Their attempt having ended in failure, the bonzes began to say that the Christian God was a demon and that his very name "Daiuso," a malignant distortion of "Deus", was a proof that he was an imposter.
		However, among the bonzes, especially among the adherents of the Zen Sect, were some who honestly sought for the truth.
	pweb.sophia.ac.jp /~d-mccoy/xavier/laures/laures.html (4089 words)

	Modern History Sourcebook: St. Francis Xavier: Letter from Japan, to the Society of Jesus at Goa, 1551
		But the bonzes admonished the prince (who is very powerful, the lord of several towns), that if he allowed his people to embrace the Christian religion, his whole dominion would be destroyed, and the ancestral gods of the country, which they call pagodas, would come to be despised by the natives.
		Many bonzes were often present at the sermons, and a great number of others, both of the common people and of the nobility.
		The bonzes were much displeased at this, and when they were present at the sermons and saw that a great number became Christians daily, they began to accuse them severely for leaving their ancestral religion to follow a new faith.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/1551xavier3.html (2499 words)

	Schulers Books (The Religions of Japan - 46/69)
		By this means the bonzes were soon enabled to call Buddhism "the people's religion," and to secure the resources of the national treasury as an aid to their temple and monastery building, and for the erection of those images and wayside shrines on which so many millions of dollars have been lavished.
		Buddhism had also a distinct influence on the military history of the country,[37] and this was greatest during the civil wars of the rival Mikados (1336-1392), when the whole country was a camp and two lines of nominees claimed to be descendants of the sun-goddess.
		Japan's only foreign wars have been in the neighboring peninsula of Korea, and thither the bonzes went with the armies in the expeditions of the early centuries, and in that great invasion of 1592-1597, which has left a scar even to this day on the Korean mind.
	www.schulers.com /books/religion/r/The_Religions_of_Japan/The_Religions_of_Japan46.htm (1424 words)

	Francis Xavier and the Land of the Rising Sun
		The opposition was especially sharp with the bonzes of the Zen sect.
		"Some of the bonzes received his attacks with non-committal silence, some with shrugs of the shoulder or mocking laughter." A few were interested in the strangeness of his appearance and teaching and engaged him in conversation (Yeo 1932:246).
		It was his interaction with the bonzes of the Shingon sect in Yamaguchi that first caused him to doubt the validity of using Dainichi as the Japanese name for the Christian God.
	www.theropps.com /papers/Winter1997/FrancisXavier.htm (6310 words)

	Tales Illustrative of the Apostles' Creed, by John Mason Neale
		For they affirmed that all the traditions of those countries were false and evil; that the teaching of the Bonzes was a lie; that the gods Amida and Zaca were only idols made with hands, and if possessing any power at all, merely possessing it because tenanted by evil spirits.
		He had heard from the Bonzes that the gods were most willing to be found in loneliness and in silence, and he was much in the condition of those of whom S. Paul speaks, "that they should seek the L
		But still, wherever he went, it was the same doubt for the present, and the same darkness for the future; and so in despair of ever arriving at the certainty of the truth, he resolved to enter a monastery of the Bonzes, and see if he should thus gain the knowledge after which he longed.
	justus.anglican.org /resources/pc/neale/creed_tales/06.html (2799 words)

	Eastern Shame Girl - The Wedding of Ya-Nei; A Strange Destiny; The Error of the Embroidered - Slipper; The Counterfeit ...
		As soon as night came, she was locked in the cell, and the bonzes insisted that a member of her family must pass the night before her door, so that none might entertain the least suspicion of an entry to her.
		As a matter of course these bonzes, whose outward behavior was so laudable and correct, were wholly and unreservedly gluttons within, both for luxury and debauch.
		When the women were sound asleep, the bonzes came softly into the cell, and to such purpose that, when their victims were aroused, it was already almost too late.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/12086/46.html (642 words)

	Documents 156-179
		Many bonzes, he said, are continuing to distribute tracts and to pass out tendentious information to foreign press.
		Preliminary information indicates Bonze (name unknown) was surrounded by massed ranks of from 200 to 300 Bonzes, applied gasoline to robe, and ignited it.
		The MACV report identified the bonze who died as Quang Duc, estimated the supporting group of bonzes and nuns at 400-500, and noted that the Buddhists used loudspeakers to proclaim that Quang Duc had died to emphasize the five demands made upon the South Vietnamese Government after the May 8 incident in Hue.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ho/frus/kennedyjf/iii/8166.htm (13419 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Nagasaki
		Influenced by the bonzes' insinuations concerning the ultimate aim of the missionaries, he issued, during a night of orgy (24 July), a decree proscribing the Christian religion and ordering the Jesuits to leave Japan within twenty days.
		Subsequently, however, the taiko grew calmer and consented to ten fathers remaining at Nagasaki, nor did he adopt any active measures to suppress Christianity as long as outward respect was shown for his decrees.
		About 1612 or 1613 the bonzes -- assisted, it is to be feared, by some English and Dutch captains -- succeeded in thoroughly alarming Iyeyasu as to some imaginary intrigue between certain of his officers and the representatives of Philip III of Spain and Portugal.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10667c.htm (1653 words)

	Zadig
		Il demanda des subsides à ses sujets; les bonzes, qui possédaient la moitié des revenus de l'état, se contentèrent de lever les mains au ciel, et refusèrent de les mettre dans leurs coffres pour aider le roi.
		Nabussan n'y manqua pas: les bonzes vinrent se jeter aux pieds du roi, et implorer son assistance.
		Les bonzes enfin donnèrent de l'argent, et le roi finit heureusement la guerre.
	manybooks.net /pages/voltaireetext03zadig10/59.html (277 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Bonzes (sing. Bon’ze). (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > Brewer’s Dictionary > Bonzes (sing.
		In China they are the priests of the Fohists; their number is 50,000, and they are represented as idle and disolute.
		In Tonquin every pagoda has at least two bonzes, and some as many as fifty.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/81/2250.html (86 words)

	Digital History
		Recent events in Saigon underline the fact that apart from the Communists--and the US presence--the two primary political forces in South Vietnam today are the military establishment and the political bonzes who direct the "Buddhist movement." At present, US political leverage appears to be at a low point.
		In the political vacuum occasioned by the French departure, power was initially assumed by an elite of French-educated and predominantly Catholic mandarin types, of whom Ngo Dinh Diem was both symbol and archetype.
		They do not appear to desire the responsibilities of office or direct participation in government, but they are determined to prevent a revival of what they consider Catholic dominance and to have a veto power over major GVN policies and personnel.
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /learning_history/vietnam/escalate13.cfm (2014 words)

	WORLD ENCYCLOPAEDIA - Vietnam - The Fall of Ngo Dinh Diem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Hundreds of Buddhist bonzes responded by staging peaceful protest demonstrations and by fasting.
		In June a bonze set himself on fire in Saigon as a protest, and, by the end of the year, six more bonzes had committed self-immolation.
		Following demonstrations at Saigon University on August 24, an estimated 4,000 students were rounded up and jailed, and the universities of Saigon and Hue were closed.
	encyclopaedic.net /world/vietnam/27.php (795 words)

	SSPXAsia.com: History of Asian Missions
		In 1571, threatened by a local rebellion, he launched against the bonzes; in 1575, there were no more non-Christians in his possessions.
		And since we could find no other harbor in Japan, we sailed to Kagoshima, the land of Paul of the Holy Faith, where we were received with great love by all, both by his relatives and by those who were not.
		I have frequently spoken with some of the most learned of these bonzes, especially with one who is highly esteemed by all in these regions for his learning, his life, and the office which he holds, and also for his advanced age, since he is some eighty years old.
	www.sspxasia.com /Documents/Catholic_History/For-The-Missions-Of-Asia-1.htm (2060 words)

	Customs & Culture of Vietnam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The beginning is characterized by the first bonzes coming into Vietnam from China and India, spreading the first knowledge about Buddhism among the Vietnamese people.
		This epoch can be placed between the second and the sixth centuries, B.C. The period in which Buddhism reached its height in the country was between the seventh and fourteenth centuries, A.D. During this time, the kings of Vietnam were especially interested in Buddhism and made it the religion of the kingdom.
		The kings last interest in the religion; the bonzes became less learned and began to turn away from the original form of Buddhism and substituted many practices that were considered to be little more than superstition.
	www.militaryliving.com /vietnam2/vietnamch4.htm (6132 words)

	San Sui Ping Yao Zhuan, Chapter 30, by Feng Menglong and Luo Guanzhong, translated by Nathan Sturman
		As luck would have it the bonze had passed right in front of the tearoom.
		Arrestor Wen took his leave of the governor and went straight to his office in the constabulary headquarters to see the bonze, who had still not awakened; he dutifully ordered the the officers there to guard the prisoner carefully.
		The bonze awoke in great discomfort at around midnight from his drunken sleep.
	www.angelfire.com /ns/pingyaozhuan/30.html (4002 words)

	dettagli musica
		During one of the first meetings with our friends, the Bonzes of Mount Koya, the heads of the largest and most ancient sect of Japanese Buddhism, the conversation moved to song, and I asked them if they sang, if they liked to sing and what.
		The leader of the Bonzes turned to me and with his arms opened wide, said, Melancholy.
		This is the word with which he unconsciously expressed what we call “religious sense.” We all recognize ourselves in that word; in this truth of mysterious expectation we all easily recognize ourselves.
	www.comunioneliberazione.org /det_Cdeng.asp?Codice=inglese&ID=130 (207 words)

	Kerr . A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels Volume 09 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It has been famous for the space of eleven hundred years, for the superstitious pilgrimages made to it, and is only inhabited by bonzes to the number of three thousand, all of the sect of _Heshang,_ or unmarried bonzes, who live a Pythagorean life.
		They have built four hundred pagodas, two of which are considerable for their size and splendour, and were lately covered with green and yellow tiles, brought from the emperor's palace at Nankin.
		The dwellings of the bonzes are the best I have seen in these parts, all of which are maintained by charitable donations.
	tales.freebox.ru /ypcvzf.html (401 words)

	Jesus & Zoar Parallels - A Christian Response (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Critics claim that there are parallels between Jesus and "Zoar of the Bonzes", but never say what those parallels are.
		The Bonzes were a group of Asian monks, but there is no record of their having worshipped a deity named Zoar.
		You have to wonder why the critics are claiming such parallels about gods that no one has ever heard of.
	www.kingdavid8.com /Copycat/JesusZoar.html (103 words)

	VN: Places to visit
		Thay pagoda worships the Venerable Bonze Tu Dao Hanh who lives four lives combined into one - Bonze, King, Buddha and Originator of the Vietnamese Water Puppetry.
		On festival days, bonzes are seen performing the ceremony, running around slowly 'dancing', as it were, gracefully, now slowly now quickly reflecting the ceaseless changes of human bondage.
		The bonzes back then were all instructors of the Thieu Lam (Shao Lin) martial arts school.
	www.ibiblio.org /vietnam/chuatay.html (777 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		One "Zoar of the Bonzes" is listed in Acharya S' long list of copycat Christs with no distinctives.
		Now you may first be asking, "What are the Bonzes?" That wasn't hard to find here:
		The word "bonzes" also seems to be used of certain monks in Asia.
	www.tektonics.org /copycat/zoar.html (149 words)

	Cambodia - Public Health
		According to traditional Cambodian beliefs, disease may be caused by some underlying spiritual cause.
		Evil spirits or "bad air" are believed to cause many diseases and can be expelled from the body of a sick person by trained practitioners, who may be traditional healers--bonzes, former bonzes, herbalists, folk healers--or Western-trained doctors and nurses.
		Aside from a wide variety of herbal remedies, traditional healing practices include scraping the skin with a coin, ring, or other small object; sprinkling or spraying water on the sick person; and prayer.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-2145.html (1419 words)

	Documents 51-72
		Additional specifics are: release of remaining students and bonzes, including satisfactory guarantees safety of three bonzes now in US Embassy; removal of press censorship; restoration of damaged pagodas by the GVN; repeal of Decree 10; and honest negotiation between GVN and true Buddhist leadership on outstanding issues.
		When CAS expressed complete disbelief, Nhu admitted arrival of three bonzes probably came as surprise to Embassy officials but continued to claim GVN in possession telephone tap indicating that (unidentified) American had been behind this episode.
		During general officers/Diem meeting on 18 Aug, Diem approved martial law in principle, asked that bonzes not be harmed, and recommended that military legal officer be present at pagodas to see that military forces acted in accordance with law.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ho/frus/kennedyjf/iv/12646.htm (12679 words)

	Joan Lebold Cohen Photo Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Tibetan Buddhism has been embraced in Mongolia for at least 500 years.
		These bonzes are in a monastery first built in the 15th century.
		Karakorum originally was built by Kublai Khan as his capital in the 13th century.
	www.joanleboldcohen.com /gallery19.html (57 words)

	VIET NAM LITERATURE
		Most ancient texts that have reached us are works of Ly epoch bonzes.
		They are obviously of Buddhist inspiration and their themes are: worldly vanity, aspiration to nothingness paradise, enjoyment of heart peace within calm and tranquil landscapes, especially hermitages' sites or pagodas.
		Beside the bonzes, as early as the 11th century, lettered people of Confucianism tendencies compose either in prose or in poetry.
	www.viettouch.com /lit/vietnam_literature.html (792 words)

	Masks of Mystery: Ancient Chinese Bonzes from Sanxingdui by Liu Yang, ISBN 0734763166 And Newman by Avery Dulles, ISBN ...
		Masks of Mystery: Ancient Chinese Bonzes from Sanxingdui by Liu Yang, ISBN 0734763166 And Newman by Avery Dulles, ISBN 0826462863
		Catalogue of the exhibition of cultural artifacts from Sanxingdui at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
		Though unsuccessful in most of his undertakings in the Catholic Church during his life time, his genius has come to be recognized after his death, and his influence can hardly be exaggerated.
	www.mylfrog.com /mysteryp.htm (246 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Francis Xavier
		The entire first year was devoted to learning the Japanese language and translating into Japanese, with the help of Pablo de Santa Fe, the principal articles of faith and short treatises which were to be employed in preaching and catechizing.
		When he was able to express himself, Xavier began preaching and made some converts, but these aroused the ill will of the bonzes, who had him banished from the city.
		Leaving Kagoshima about August, 1550, he penetrated to the centre of Japan, and preached the Gospel in some of the cities of southern Japan.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06233b.htm (1499 words)

	Sivananda Yoga - Spiritual Humor, Sattwic Jokes
		It plays with the words and has a cultural reference (you have to be born there, sorry :-).
		Dans un monastère, 2 "bonzes" sont les meilleurs amis du monde.
		This story was sent to her by a Yogi from Switzerland who founded the Geneva Sivananda Yoga Center.
	www.sivananda.org /teachings/humor.html (1324 words)

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