. The Lotus gospel : or, Mahayana Buddhism and its symbolic teachings compared historically and geographically with those of Catholic Christianity. New Birth. ( 203; 1. Pet. 1. 3. 5). IHAI tablets inscribed with the names of living benefactors,or with the New Name which is always conferred at * In the Syrian inscription an-fu, **■ Palace of Darkness, is a phraseborrowed from Buddhism and means the same as Yin-fu^ the HiddenPalace {i,e. of Judgment), of our Bible translations. Mo^ Devil, translatedfrom the Sanskrit Mara (the Aryan personification of Death,) is theequivalent of the Greek di
. The Lotus gospel : or, Mahayana Buddhism and its symbolic teachings compared historically and geographically with those of Catholic Christianity. New Birth. ( 203; 1. Pet. 1. 3. 5). IHAI tablets inscribed with the names of living benefactors,or with the New Name which is always conferred at * In the Syrian inscription an-fu, **■ Palace of Darkness, is a phraseborrowed from Buddhism and means the same as Yin-fu^ the HiddenPalace {i,e. of Judgment), of our Bible translations. Mo^ Devil, translatedfrom the Sanskrit Mara (the Aryan personification of Death,) is theequivalent of the Greek diabohis^ hence Mo-wang on the Stele is used forthe demon possession of the Christian Gospels. {Chinese Buddhism, ff.) t Early Christianity and Paganism^ pp. 288-9. Contrast supa , 76. 330 THE LOTUS GOSPEL eath on thosethe Spirit-life,* arenese temples. Most rest uponImmortality, super-On some are prayersare dying daily/chapel of an Im(which I speciallyWhite Lotus whichbore the words, For the millions of soulsIn all ages, have passed Two immenseperished by flood,in the late wars,of Yakushis Shrine |M« >2AX9rl|[i^^<ti^A^1l. about to pass^intoprominent in Japa- the Lotus-symbol ofposed on a Lion.*^ for those w^hoOne in the privateperial Abbess,noted because of theadorned the walls,) who, in all lands, andinto the Unseen ! Ihai for those whopestilence, or battlerest on either sideat Koya, each sur-p. 249, eh. 20). mounted by the Sanskrit ^. (See These ihai, (called in Greek diptychay) were in everyearly Christian church, however small and unimportant;—the Recital being part of the Great latercession for theLiving and the Dead which occurring in all primitiveLiturgies, close to the Consecration, was a very im-portant part of the Mass. The Syriac stele ( 781) says, Seven times a day they (the Tu-sengy[ have worship and praise forthe solace of the living and the dead. Once in seven days they sacrifice. Prayers for the Repose of the Dead lie at the root ofall
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