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art industry.--The Kami no Michi falls
into shadow.--Which religion suffered most?--Phenomenally the
victory belonged to Buddhism.--The leavening power was that of
Shint[=o].--Buddhism's fresh chapter of decay.--Influence of Riy[=o]bu
upon the Chinese ethical system in Japan.--Influence on the
Mikado.--Abdication all along the lines of Japanese life.--Ultimate
paralysis of the national intellect.--Comparison with Chinese
Buddhism.--Miracle-mongering.--No self-reforming power in
Buddhism.--The Seven 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 Kégon 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--Hiyéizan.--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.--Hidéyori.--Kato Kiyomasa.--The Dutch in the Eastern
seas.--Will Adams.--Iyéyas[)u] suspects designs against the sovereignty
of Japan.--The Christian religion outlawed.--Hidétada follows up the
policy of Iyéyas[)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
Déshima.--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 Déshima
Dutchman as pictured by enemies and rivals, versus reality and
truth.--Eager spirits groping after God.--Morning stars of the Japanese
reformation.--Yokoi Héishiro.--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