. The Lotus gospel : or, Mahayana Buddhism and its symbolic teachings compared historically and geographically with those of Catholic Christianity. with those of the Fourth Gospel. Nagarjuna taught of Amitabha, (Jap. Amida) the Infinite Light, the compassionate, infinitely loving Father of all that lives, who destroys sins countless as the sand ; and the Measureless Life, who is the Manifestation of the Eternal Buddha in His Three-fold aspect. ** The influence which * the Lotus,* read and copied!as a sacred work, exercised upon the Japanese and itscontribution to the growth of sympathy, and re
. The Lotus gospel : or, Mahayana Buddhism and its symbolic teachings compared historically and geographically with those of Catholic Christianity. with those of the Fourth Gospel. Nagarjuna taught of Amitabha, (Jap. Amida) the Infinite Light, the compassionate, infinitely loving Father of all that lives, who destroys sins countless as the sand ; and the Measureless Life, who is the Manifestation of the Eternal Buddha in His Three-fold aspect. ** The influence which * the Lotus,* read and copied!as a sacred work, exercised upon the Japanese and itscontribution to the growth of sympathy, and refinementof sympathy, can never be over estimated.*$ * Indian CJnrch History p. 123 by Thomas Yeates. London ch. 14, note Monstrance, t I was lately privileged to see an exquisite copy of Hokekyo madeby the grandfather of His present Imperial Majesty. X Address to Oxford Congress of Religions, 1908, by Dr. Anesakiof Tokyo. THE LOTUS GOSPEL 31 Four hundred years ago, when St. Francis Xaviercame ** to publish the Divine Law in Japan, he wrotehome to Europe that he found that ** the minds ofmen are more deUcate here than elsewhere ! *. FOUNTAIN AT St. PETERS, Peacocks, Dolphins, Pine-cone,Emblems of Immortality;Also the Chi-Rho monogram. CHAPTER III. AN IMPERIAL VISION. <* The people which sat in darkness saw a great Light. <* The people were in Expectation. «< By dreams I called him, and otherwise. Wherefore, I was not disobedient to the Heavenly Vision.** The Doctrines of Mahayana, or (what is usuallyknown as) Northern Buddhism,* reached China, Chosen,and Japan in the following way. After the Council held at the capital of Gandara,t(c. 50) a sandal-wood image of Maitreya, theExpected Messiah of Buddhism, was carved by one ofAnandas disciples, Madhyantika, w^ho is said to haveconverted Kashmir, (Kasipa. £fte/-—pp. 88, 92). This image is described by the Chinese pilgrim Fa-hien, 400, as of ** dazzling brilliance,* working manymiracles,
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