. The mikado's empire. m. It has fully as much, if not more, science init than our mediaeval theologians found in the Bible. Its high intel-lectuality made noble souls yearn to win its secrets, and to attain theconquests over their lusts and passions, by knowledge. Among the various sects of Buddhism, however, the understandingof the doctrine of Nirvana varies greatly. Some believe in the total 162 THE MIKADOS EMPIRE. nonentity of the human soul, the utter annihilation of consciousness;while others, on the contrary, hold that, as part of the divine whole,the human soul enjoys a measure of cons
. The mikado's empire. m. It has fully as much, if not more, science init than our mediaeval theologians found in the Bible. Its high intel-lectuality made noble souls yearn to win its secrets, and to attain theconquests over their lusts and passions, by knowledge. Among the various sects of Buddhism, however, the understandingof the doctrine of Nirvana varies greatly. Some believe in the total 162 THE MIKADOS EMPIRE. nonentity of the human soul, the utter annihilation of consciousness;while others, on the contrary, hold that, as part of the divine whole,the human soul enjoys a measure of conscious personality. Persecution and opposition at first united together the adherents ofthe new faith, but success and prosperity gave rise to schisms. Newsects were founded in Japan, while many priests traveled abroad toCorea and China, and came back as new lights and reformers, to foundnew schools of thought and worship. Of these the most illustriouswas Kobo, famed not only as a scholar in Pali, Sanskrit, and Chinese,. Kobo DaisM, Inventor of the Japanese Syllabary. (From a photograph, taken from awooden statue in a temple at Kioto.) but as an eminently holy bonze, and the compiler of the Japanese al-phabet, or syllabary, ^, ro, ha, ni, ho, he, to, etc., in all forty-seven char-acters, which, with diacritical points, may be increased to the numberof seventy. The katagana is the square, the hiragana is the scriptform. Kobo was born 774 ; and died 835. He founded atemple, and the sect called Shin Gon (True Words). Eight sectswere in existence in his time, of which only two now survive. The thirteenth of the Christian era is the golden century of Japa-nese Buddhism; for then were developed those phases of thoughtpeculiar to it, and sects were founded, most of them in Kioto, whichare still the most flourishing in Japan. Among these were, in 1202,the Zen (Contemplation); in 1211, the Jodo (Heavenly Road); in1262, the Shin (New) ; in 1282, the Nichiren. In various decades
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