I found this fascinating article (if that is the right word for it) that I happened upon while scrolling through some of my Grandmothers old Life Magazines. Quentin Roosevelt II, son of Theodore Roosevelt Jr., wrote an article for the January 8, 1940 edition of Life Magazine, about his travels in China and Tibet before WW2 and about the Buddhist faith he discovered there. Below is a link to Google Book's archive of it, and I think you will find it rather odd and a bit nonsensical.
But, even more interesting and even a bit shocking than the article is the Letters to the Editor that Life Magazine published in the January 29, 1940 edition about Roosevelt's piece. I will transcribe those out over the next few days, but needless to say, even in 1940, some of the same hot button issues about Buddhism that we discuss to this day are talked about in-depth and passionately back then. Click on the link below to take you to the Google Archive, or you can access it directly here:
4 comments:
Great find. I had no idea those LIFE magazines were even available.
(Re the article, that's obviously a bit of a face – desk kind of thing, but there you are.)
Yea, its tough to read, i was hoping I could find a transcript, but no luck.
That's not what I meant, when you zoom in a bit, it's quite easy to read. I was referring to the content. As in, it makes me want to bang my face on my desk.
Oh...well they goes without saying. :-)
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