Identifier: japanjapaneseill00humb (find matches)
Title: Japan and the Japanese illustrated
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Humbert, Aimé, 1819-1900 Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-1892 Hoey, Frances Cashel, 1830-1908
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Publisher: London : R. Bentley & son
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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stles from those distant shores have probably visited it. On the other hand, it hassuffered to an extreme degree, and under the intluence of its nearest neighbours, allthe fatal consequences of the doctrine of the master himself, and especially themonstrous vagaries of his disciples. M. Martin Arzelier remarks in his ChretienEvangelique (No. 10, eleventh year), that it would be au unprofitable task to undertaketo trace the pure and abstract doctrine of the founder of the Good Tao in JapaneseBuddhism. The Proteus of Greek fable, he adds, is not less intangible than the GoodTao in its metamorphoses among the various peoples of Asia and the Far East. Every sort of modification and addition is justified beforehand by the followingadage, which seems to have been the watchword of the missionaries of Buddhism: Everything that agrees with good sense and circumstances agrees with truth, andought to serve as a rule. The Temples of Kamakoura furnisli many examples in support of this observation.
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A HK>lEcrAliLK TKA UOlSK. CHAPTER in. BUDDHISM I.V JAPAN. INTRODUCTION OF BUDDHISM. —BUDDHIST SYMBOLISM.—THE INFANT BUDDHA.—FESTIVALOF HIS BIRTH AND BAPTISM. —THE DOCTRINE OF UNIVERSAL AND INEVITABLESUFFERING.—NIRWaNA.—THE GENERAL INFLUENCE OF BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY ONJAPANESE LIFE.—THE LITERATURE OF BUDDHISM.—JAPANESE WRITING. J.HE introduction of Biuldiiisin into Japan dates from the year 552 of our era. At tliat epoch, Kin-Mei, the thirteentli )\Iikado, received from King Petsi at Corea,a statue of Sdkyamouni, together with books, banners, a baldaquin, and other objectsused iu the worship of Buddha. With these presents came a letter to the follo\ving effect. 128 LIFE IN JAPAN.. Behold the best of all doctrines;—coming from distant India, it reveals to us whatwas a mystery to Confucius himself, and transports us into a final condition whosefelicity cannot be surpassed. The King of Petsi communicated it to the Empire of theMikado so that it may be spread about, and

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