. The Lotus gospel : or, Mahayana Buddhism and its symbolic teachings compared historically and geographically with those of Catholic Christianity. sttens of thousands of Japanese rest beside Daishi. In thatwonderful Koya cemetery are the fragmentary remainsof Emperors, Empresses, and every notable, as well asthe poorest and humblest, person in Japan—a Christianpractise defended by St. Augustine of Plippo to Paulinus,bishop of Nola, in the 4th century. The Catacombs were the ** Sleeping places ** at Romeof the converts of SS. Peter and Paul. In the Eastern Church it is * the Sleep,* koimenos,d
. The Lotus gospel : or, Mahayana Buddhism and its symbolic teachings compared historically and geographically with those of Catholic Christianity. sttens of thousands of Japanese rest beside Daishi. In thatwonderful Koya cemetery are the fragmentary remainsof Emperors, Empresses, and every notable, as well asthe poorest and humblest, person in Japan—a Christianpractise defended by St. Augustine of Plippo to Paulinus,bishop of Nola, in the 4th century. The Catacombs were the ** Sleeping places ** at Romeof the converts of SS. Peter and Paul. In the Eastern Church it is * the Sleep,* koimenos,dormitiOy of the Virgin rather than her idea also dates from the Pyramid-age, togetherwith that of the departed soul as a Chrysalis, orhibernating Very near the Cave of Daishi is the Mando-rOy * Hallof Ten Thousand lamps,** of which ** the Poor Womanssingle lamp ** is chief and inextinguishable ; and also * Kobo loved the cryptomerian forests like Bridget, Columba andother Irish religious loved the oak groves! t Gordons Temples, pp. 7, 39, 94, Messiah^ ill. p. 146, and StanleysChristian Listitutions pp. 536, o -^o •- 0) o bit) c • 1—« a oU t/5 CO < H THE LOTUS GOSPEL 203 the Hall of Bones (Kotsudo) where the bones, teeth,Adams apple, etc., of those whose relations are toopoor to bring their bodies from distant parts of Japanfor burial are preserved for four years, before interment,in an Octagon building, typical of Re=birth in the SinlessLand, in sure and certain hope of which theyawait the Regeneration promised them by Daishi. The roof of Kobos own tomb culminates in animmense tama from which springs the triscula, a threeforked flame, symbol of the boundless Empyrean.* Thisis the *^ N3^oi-rin or Fire-pearl/ possibly Amber. The Cross, in all manner of forms, is visible atKoyasan, : before the Hall of 10,000 votive lampsand, markedly so, on the Lanterns and Lotus vases beforethe Sleeping-place of Daishi. It is also on the afore-men
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