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system.--Its modern revival.--Kéichin.--Kada Adzumar[=o].--Mabuchi,
Motoöri.--Hirata.--In 1870, Shint[=o] is again made the state
religion.--Purification of Riy[=o]bu temples.--Politico-religious
lectures.--Imperial rescript.--Reverence to the Emperor's
photograph.--Judgment upon Shint[=o].--The Christian's ideal of
Yamato-damashii.
CHAPTER IV
THE CHINESE ETHICAL SYSTEM IN JAPAN, PAGE 99
In what respects Confucius was unique as a teacher.--Outline of his
life.--The canon.--Primitive Chinese faith a sort of monotheism.--How
the sage modified it.--History of Confucianism until its entrance into
Japan.--Outline of the intellectual and political history of the
Japanese.--Rise of the Samurai class.--Shifting of emphasis from filial
piety to loyalty.--Prevalence of suicide in Japan.--Confucianism has
deeply tinged the ideas of the Japanese.--Great care necessary in
seeking equivalents in English for the terms used in the Chino-Japanese
ethics; e.g., the emperor, "the father of the people."--Impersonality of
Japanese speech.--Christ and Confucius.--"Love" and

"reverence."--Exemplars of loyalty.--The Forty-seven R[=o]nins.--The
second relation.--The family in Chinese Asia and in Christendom.--The
law of filial piety and the daughter.--The third relation.--Theory of
courtship and marriage.--Chastity.--Jealousy.--Divorce.--Instability of
the marriage bond.--The fourth relation.--The elder and the younger
brother.--The house or family everything, the individual nothing.--The
fifth relation.--The ideas of Christ and those of Confucius.--The Golden
and the Gilded rule.--Lao Tsze and Kung.--Old Japan and the
alien.--Commodore Perry and Professor Hayashi.
CHAPTER V
CONFUCIANISM IN ITS PHILOSOPHICAL FORM, PAGE 131
Harmony of the systems of Confucius and Buddha in Japan during a
thousand years.--Revival of learning in the seventeenth
century.--Exodus of the Chinese scholars on the fall of the Ming
dynasty.--Their dispersion and work in Japan.--Founding of schools of
the new Chinese learning.--For two and a half centuries the Japanese
mind has been moulded by the new Confucianism.--Survey of its rise
and developments.--Four stages in the intellectual history of
China.--The populist movement in the eleventh century.--The literary
controversy.--The philosophy of the Cheng brothers and of Chu Hi,
called in Japan Tei-Shu system.--In Buddhism the Japanese were
startling innovators, in philosophy they were docile pupils.--Paucity of
Confucian or speculative literature in Japan.--A Chinese wall built
around the Japanese intellect.--Yelo orthodoxy.--Features of the
Téi-Shu system.--Not agnostic but pantheistic.--Its influence upon
historiography.--Ki (spirit) Ri (way) and Ten (heaven).--The writings
of Ohashi Junzo.--Confucianism obsolescent in New Japan.--A study of
Confucianism in the interest of comparative religion.--Man's place in
the universe.--The Samurai's ideal, obedience.--His fearlessness in the
face of death.--Critique of the system.--The ruler and the ruled.--What
has Confucianism done for woman?--Improvement and revision of the
fourth and fifth relations.--The new view of the universe and the new
mind in New Japan. The ideal of Yamato-damashii revised and
improved.

CHAPTER VI
THE BUDDHISM OF NORTHERN ASIA, PAGE 153
Buddha--sun myth or historic personage?--Buddhism one of the
protestantisms of the world.--Characteristics of new religions.--Survey
of the history of Indian thought.--The age of the Vedas.--The epic
age.--The rationalistic age.--Our fellow-Aryans and the story of their
conquests.--Their intellectual energy and inventions.--Systems of
philosophy.--Condition of religion at the birth of Gautama.--Outline of
his life.--He attains enlightenment or buddhahood.--In what respects
Buddhism was an old, and in what a new religion.--Did Gautama
intend to found a new religion, or return to simpler and older
faith?--Monasticism, Kharma and Nirvana,--Enthusiasm of the
disciples of the new faith.--The great schism.--The Northern
Buddhists.--The canon.--The two Yana or vehicles.--Simplicity of
Southern and luxuriance of Northern Buddhism.--Summary of the
process of thought in Nepal.--The old gods of India come back
again.--Maitreya, Manjusri and Avalokitesvara.--The Legend of
Manjusri.--Separation of attributes and creation of new Buddhas or
gods.--The Dhyani Buddhas.--Amida.--Adi-Buddhas.--Abstractions
become gods.--The Tantra system.--Outbursts of doctrine and
art.--Prayer-mills.--The noble eight-fold path of self-denial and
benevolence forgotten.--Entrance of Buddhism from Korea into
Japan.--Condition of the country at that time.--Dates and first
experiences.--Soga no Inamé.--Sh[=o]toku.--Japanese pilgrims to
China.--Changes wrought by the new creed and cult.--Temples,
monasteries and images.--Influence upon the Mikado's name, rank and
person, and upon Shint[=o].--Relative influence of Buddhism in Asia
and of Christianity in Europe.--The three great characteristics of
Buddhism.--How the clouds returned after the rain.--Buddhism and
Christianity confronting the problem of life.
CHAPTER VII
RIYOBU, OR MIXED BUDDHISM, PAGE 189

The experience of two centuries and a half of Buddhism in
Japan.--Necessity of using more powerful means for the conversion of
the Japanese.--Popular customs nearly ineradicable.--Analogy from
European history.--Syncretism in Christian history.--In the Arabian
Nights.--How far is the process of Syncretism honest?--Examples not
to be recommended for imitation.--The problem of reconciling the
Kami and the Buddhas.--Northern Buddhism ready for the task.--The
Tantra or Yoga-chara system.--Art and its influence on the
imagination.--The sketch replaced by the illumination and monochrome
by colors.--Japanese art.--Mixed Buddhism rather than mixed
Shint[=o].--K[=o]b[=o] the wonder-worker who made all Japanese
history a transfiguration of Buddhism.--Legends about his
extraordinary abilities and industry.--His life, and studies in
China.--The kata-kana syllabary.--K[=o]b[=o]o's revelation from the
Shint[=o] goddess Toyo-Uké-Bimé.--The gods of Japan were avatars of
Buddha.--K[=o]b[=o]'s plan of propaganda.--Details of the scheme.--A
clearing-house of gods and Buddhas.--Relative rise and fall of the
native and the foreign deities.--Legend of Daruma. "Riy[=o]bu
Shint[=o]."--Impulse to art and