. The Lotus gospel : or, Mahayana Buddhism and its symbolic teachings compared historically and geographically with those of Catholic Christianity. purest and grossest elements conceivable replaced it. In 1209, China was rotten to the core, and withthe succeeding devastation of Central Asia by countlesshordes of blood-thirsty Mongols under Jenghis Khan,*(who called himself ** the Scourge of God,**) is it sur-prising that Learning perished, the Faith was obscured,often past recognition, and its Origin forgotten ? ^ Jenghis Khan is by some identified with the Japanese hero Yoshi=tsisne, half bro
. The Lotus gospel : or, Mahayana Buddhism and its symbolic teachings compared historically and geographically with those of Catholic Christianity. purest and grossest elements conceivable replaced it. In 1209, China was rotten to the core, and withthe succeeding devastation of Central Asia by countlesshordes of blood-thirsty Mongols under Jenghis Khan,*(who called himself ** the Scourge of God,**) is it sur-prising that Learning perished, the Faith was obscured,often past recognition, and its Origin forgotten ? ^ Jenghis Khan is by some identified with the Japanese hero Yoshi=tsisne, half brother to the first Shogun, Yoritomo, (d. 1159). He is stillworshipped by the Ainu in Yezo, from whence he went to Mongolia. Note to p. 206. Since the above was printed I hear that Kobosmother died at the age of 8S, having received from him the Kaji-baptismon her deathbed in the Jiso-in, at the foot of Mt. Koya, where shespent her last years, devoted to the worship of Miroku. She diedcomforted by her sons assurance that in body and soul she had « becomeMiroku; (Cf. I John 3, I, 2), and was buried at Jiso, the temple of theLoving One, (p. 38).. The Wondrous Ship of Salvation, bound for Gokuraku. PART TWO. (CHAPTERS XIV—XXII.) ^ By the MinivStry of the ProphetsI have used Similitudes/ ^* Jesus spake unto the Crowd in Parables ;Indeed to them He used never to speak at all Except in Parables, In fulfilment of these words in the Prophet—I will utter Things Kept Secret Since the Foundation of the World. ^ * Rosea xii. lo. ; Matthew xiil. 34, 35. (xxth cent., ) CHAPTER XIY. ALLEGORICAL TEACHING. ** Which things contain an Allegory -^t -sf * Spiritually understood/^* ^^ TJE who is thoroughly steeped in the imagery ofA A the Catacombs/ (said the late Dean Stanleyof Westminster), **will be nearer to the thought of theEarly Church than he who has learned by heart themost elaborate treatises of Tertullian or Origen/ Our most modern authorit}^ Professor Sanday ofOxford, writing i
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