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Happy Gods of Fortune.--Pantheism's destruction of boundaries.--The author's study of the popular processions in Japan.--Masaka Do.--Swamping of history in legend.--The jewel in the lotus.
CHAPTER VIII
NORTHERN BUDDHISM IN ITS DOCTRINAL EVOLUTIONS, PAGE 225
Four stages of the doctrinal development of Buddhism in Japan.--Reasons for the formation of sects.--The Saddharma Pundarika.--Shastras and Sutras.--The Ku-sha sect.--Book of the Treasury of Metaphysics.--The J[=o]-jitsu sect, its founder and its doctrines.--The Ris-shu or Viyana sect.--Japanese pilgrims to China.--The Hos-s[=o] sect and its doctrines.--The three grades of disciples.--The San-ron or Three-shastra sect and its tenets.--The Middle Path.--The K��gon sect.--The Unconditioned, or realistic pantheism.--The Chinese or Tendai sect.--Its scriptures and dogmas.--Buddhahood attainable in the present body.--Vagradrodhi.--The Yoga-chara system.--The "old sects."--Reaction against excessive idol-making.--The Zen sect.--Labor-saving devices in Buddhism.--Making truth apparent by one's own thought.--Transmission of the Zen doctrine.--History of Zen Shu.
CHAPTER IX
THE BUDDHISM OF THE JAPANESE, PAGE 257
The J[=o]-d[=o] or Pure Land sect.--Substitution of faith in Amida for the eight-fold Path.--Succession of the propagators of true doctrine.--Zend[=o] and H[=o]-nen.--The Japanese path-finder to the Pure Land.--Doctrine of J[=o]-d[=o].--Buddhistic influence on the Japanese language.--Incessant repetition of prayers.--The Pure Land in the West.--The Buddhist doctrine of justification by faith.--H[=o]-nen's universalism.--Tendency of doctrinal development after H[=o]-nen.--"Reformed" Buddhism.--Synergism versus salvation by faith only.--Life of Shinran.--Posthumous honors.--Policy and aim of the Shin sect, methods and scriptures.
CHAPTER X
JAPANESE BUDDHISM IN ITS MISSIONARY DEVELOPMENT, PAGE 287
The missionary history of Japanese Buddhism is the history of Japan.--The first organized religion of the Japanese.--Professor Basil Hall Chamberlain's testimony--A picture of primeval life in the archipelago.--What came in the train of the new religion from "the West". Missionary civilizers, teachers, road-makers, improvers of diet. Language of flowers and gardens.--The house and home.--Architecture--The imperial capital--Hiy��izan.--Love of natural scenery.--Pilgrimages and their fruits.--The Japanese aesthetic.--Art and decoration in the temples.--Exterior resemblances between the Roman form of Christianity and of Buddhism.--Quotation from "The Mikado's Empire."--Internal vital differences.--Enlightenment and grace.--Ingwa and love.--Luxuriance of the art of Northern Buddhism.--Variety in individual treatment.--Place of the temple in the life of Old Japan.--The protecting trees.--The bell and its note.--The graveyard and the priests' hold upon it.--Japanese Buddhism as a political power.--Its influence upon military history.--Abbots on horseback and monks in armor.--Battles between the Shin and Zen sects.--Nobunaga.--Influence of Buddhism in literature and education.--The temple school.--The kana writing.--Survey and critique of Buddhist history in Japan.--Absence of organized charities.--Regard for animal and disregard for human life.--The Eta.--The Aino.--Attitude to women.--Nuna and numerics.--Polygamy and concubinage.--Buddhism compared with Shint[=o].--Influence upon morals.--The First Cause.--Its leadership among the sects.--Unreality of Amida Buddha.--Nichiren.--His life and opinions.--Idols and avatars.--The favorite scripture of the sect, the Saddharma Pundarika.--Its central dogma, everything in the universe capable of Buddha-ship.--The Salvation Army of Buddhism.--K[=o]b[=o]'s leaven working.--Buddhism ceases to be an intellectual force.--The New Buddhism.--Are the Japanese eager for reform?
CHAPTER XI
ROMAN CHRISTIANITY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, PAGE 323
The many-sided story of Japanese Christianity.--One hundred years of intercourse between Japan and Europe.--State of Japan at the introduction of Portuguese Christianity.--Xavier and Anjiro.--Xavier at Ki[=o]to and in Bungo.--Nobunaga and the Buddhists.--High-water mark of Christianity.--Hideyoshi and the invasion of Korea.--Kato and Konishi.--Persecutions.--Arrival of the Spanish friars.--Their violation of good faith.--Spirit of the Jesuits and Franciscans.--Crucifixion on the bamboo cross.--Hid��yori.--Kato Kiyomasa.--The Dutch in the Eastern seas.--Will Adams.--Iy��yas[)u] suspects designs against the sovereignty of Japan.--The Christian religion outlawed.--Hid��tada follows up the policy of Iy��yas[)u], excludes aliens, and shuts up the country.--The uprising of the Christians at Shimabara in 1637.--Christianity buried from sight.--Character of the missionaries and the form of the faith introduced by them.--Noble lives and ideals.--The spirit of the Inquisition in Japan.--Political animus and complexion.
CHAPTER XII
TWO CENTURIES OF SILENCE, PAGE 351
Policy of the Japanese government after the suppression of Christianity.--Insulation of Japan.--The Hollanders at D��shima.--Withdrawal of the English.--Relations with Korea.--Policy of inclusion.--"A society impervious to foreign ideas."--Life within stunted limits.--Canons of art and literature.--Philosophy made an engine of government.--Esoteric law.--Social waste of humanity.--Attempts to break down the wall--External and internal.--Seekers after God.--The goal of the pilgrims.--The D��shima Dutchman as pictured by enemies and rivals, versus reality and truth.--Eager spirits groping after God.--Morning stars of the Japanese reformation.--Yokoi H��ishiro.--The anti-Christian edicts.--The Buddhist Inquisitors.--The Shin-gaku or New Learning movement.--The story of nineteenth century Christianity, subterranean and interior before being phenomenal.--Sabbath-day service on the U.S.S. Mississippi.--The first missionaries.--Dr. J.C. Hepburn--Healing and the Bible.--Yedo becomes T[=o]ki[=o].--Despatch of the Embassy round the world.--Eyes opened.--The Acts of the Apostles in Japan.
NOTES, AUTHORITIES AND ILLUSTRATIONS, PAGE 375
INDEX, PAGE 451
CHAPTER I
- PRIMITIVE FAITH: RELIGION BEFORE BOOKS
"The investigation of the beginnings of a religion is never the work of infidels, but of the most reverent and conscientious minds."
"We, the forty million souls of Japan, standing firmly and persistently upon the basis of international justice, await still further manifestations as to the morality of Christianity,"--Hiraii, of Japan.
"When the Creator [through intermediaries that were apparently animals] had finished treating this world of men, the good and the bad Gods were all mixed together promiscuously, and began