PRIEST'S FUNERAL.
CONTROVERSY IN BURMA. PLAN TO USE AEROPLANE, LONDON, February 5. A proposal to introduce an aeroplane into nn ancient religious rite has produced a violent controversy among the Buddhists of Burma, says the Rangoon correspondent of "The Times." The modernists wish to charter an aeroplane to convey the embalmed body of a priest seven times round the S we Dagou pagoda, as part of the obsequies, which require that the coffin shall be continuously in motion before the public cremation. The more orthodox section has protested against the use of an aeroplane for the purpose as an undesirable innovation. The advanced section retorts tliat the dead are all the more honoured when the, rites arc performed in the most up-to-date manner.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AG19350219.2.32
Bibliographic details
Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 110, 19 February 1935, Page 5
Word Count
123PRIEST'S FUNERAL. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 110, 19 February 1935, Page 5
Using This Item
Ashburton Guardian Ltd is the copyright owner for the Ashburton Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Ashburton Guardian Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in