. The Mythology of all races .. . ied and some of which exist independently of all cor-poreal ties and have never been permanently united to a bodyof any kind, but haunt the air, the earth, and the to these are supernatural beings who have their origi-nals in real people, likeTsen Yii-ying, the Miaotzu (or Hmeng)Viceroy of Yiin-kuei, who suppressed the Panthe rebellionin Yiin-nan, died within living memory, and is worshipped asa deity in a temple in Yiin-nan-fu, which is professedly aBuddhist shrine. A similar demonstration is to be seen in thespirit shrines which are constantly
. The Mythology of all races .. . ied and some of which exist independently of all cor-poreal ties and have never been permanently united to a bodyof any kind, but haunt the air, the earth, and the to these are supernatural beings who have their origi-nals in real people, likeTsen Yii-ying, the Miaotzu (or Hmeng)Viceroy of Yiin-kuei, who suppressed the Panthe rebellionin Yiin-nan, died within living memory, and is worshipped asa deity in a temple in Yiin-nan-fu, which is professedly aBuddhist shrine. A similar demonstration is to be seen in thespirit shrines which are constantly found near religious build-ings, sometimes even in the courtyard of pagodas to theBuddha. It may even be said that the Buddha Gotama is a PLATE V TSEN Yu-YING This image of the Military Governor and Vice-roy of Yiin-kuei, who suppressed a Panthe (ChineseiMuhammadan) rebellion last century, is erected inthe temple of the Goddess of Mercy (see pp. 261-62)which stands a few miles south of Ta-li-fu, in theChinese Province of PEOPLES AND RELIGIONS OF INDO-CHINA 261 deified man of the same kind, for though in theory his image,which appears in countless shrines, temples, and monasteries,is not regarded as an idol to be worshipped, but as a modelto be followed, he was yet a mere man, and his death wasascribed by early tradition to an over-heavy meal of is still more apparent in the Amitabha of China, who hasbeen transplanted to Tongking and Annam. He has not yetbecome a Buddha, but reigns in unending glory In Ching-tu,the Pure Land, the Western Paradise, where those who attainsalvation will live in unalloyed happiness. Amitabha is theOmito-fu, the name which, as a simple invocation, is inscribedon tablets and walls of multitudes of temples, and carved onthe rocks and cliffs of a hundred caverned hills. Amitabha,we are told, was like Prince Siddhartha (the royal name of theBuddha), only that, instead of being merely a prince, he was arich and powerful monarch, who ab
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