Question
Emily Sigalow’s 2019 study of “Jewish Buddhists,” American JewBu, opens with Charles Strauss’s conversion to Buddhism in this city. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this city where the American public’s awareness of Asian spiritual traditions was fostered by Swami Vivekenanda’s lectures at the 1893 Parliament of Religions.
ANSWER: Chicago
[10m] Sigalow’s use of “Jewbu” takes after a 1994 book by Rodger Kamenetz whose title, The Jew in the Lotus, puns on the common translation of this Sanskrit mantra. Recite the mantra, in Sanskrit, one time.
ANSWER: oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ [accept oṃ maṇi padme om or oṃ maṇi padme hūng] (The mantra roughly means “The jewel [is] in the lotus.” Kamenetz used the spelling “JUBU,” in all caps.)
[10h] Sigalow compares Buddhist teachings on compassion to the Pirkei Avot’s (“peer-KAY ah-VOTE’s”) claim that the world stands on three legs: Torah, prayer, and this concept. The King James Bible introduced “lovingkindness” as a translation of this Hebrew word for love and mercy.
ANSWER: chesed (“HESS-ed”) [or hesed; accept gemilut ḥasadim or gemilut chasadim]
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 13 | 10.77 | 77% | 15% | 15% |
Data
| Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| BHSU B | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | We Need New Names | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| The Empire Bikes Back | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| The Oldest Men in the World | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| The Jeam Team | var merchants | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |