Identifier: dragonimagedemon1887dubo (find matches)
Title: The dragon, image, and demon; or, The three religions of China: Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, giving an account of the mythology, idolatry, and demonolatry of the Chinese
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: DuBose, Hampden C
Subjects: Taoism Buddhism Confucianism
Publisher: New York, A. C. Armstrong & son
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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to its mark. The effort is tosee how many times o^me-to-fuh can be called in onebreath, and you sometimes hear the priests calling thename at railway speed. Not long since I asked a priest, How often do you say o-m^e-to-fuh a day ? and heanswered, Oh, about twenty or thirty thousand times.This is the vain repetition of the Buddhist; almostthe only prayer the heathen knows is o-m.e-to-fuh. The Paradise of the West—The doctrine of theWestern Heaven is diametrically opposed to the teachingsof Buddha about Nirvana, and proves that the heart couldnot deal with such abstractions, and that men must havehappiness set before them in a more real, substantialform. This Paradise of Amita is not situated withinthe pale of this solar system. The sacred book says(translated):—Ten million miles to the West there isan earth called Paradise, the home of Amita. Why is The Heart of BuddJiism. 301 it called Paradise ? Answer : Because all the creaturesbom there have no sorrow. There are seven rows of
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Western Paradise. balustrades, seven rows of precious trees around, andseven precious lakes with golden sands. The streets area compound of gold, silver, pearls, and crystal. There 302 The Dragon, Image, and De7non. are towers and pavilions adorned with gold, silver, pearls,crystal, and agate. In the lakes are lilies the size ofwheels, azure, yellow, red, and white. Six hours of the day and six hours of the night thereis a rain of flowers. The inhabitants gather them intheir robes in the morning, take them to other lands tothe ten billion other Buddhas, and return, being absentabout as long as it takes to eat rice. The birds of Paradise, variegated in plumage, arefamous; white cranes, peacocks, and parrots chant theBuddhist prayers. These birds have no original sin. In that happy land the three evils are unknown,—noteven the names of the three evils are known. Amita,wishing the law-sound (our word gospel is ^ happy-sound ) to be constantly chanted, expelled these evils. If a gentle

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