. The Lotus gospel : or, Mahayana Buddhism and its symbolic teachings compared historically and geographically with those of Catholic Christianity. hid 174 XIII. Kobo Daishi 193 XIV. Allegorical Teaching 212 XV. Allegorical Teaching {continued) 232 XVI. **The Unseen Friend 266 XVII. **The Great Physician 288 Emerald Buddha 308 XIX. The mount of Purification 333 XX. Signs, Symbols, Numbers 349 XXI. *The Sign of All The Nyorais 379 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. FIG. : PAGE 1. The Buddha of Infinite Life, Light, and Frontispiece 2. Joyes Tower at Tonouaine to face 8 3. Shaka-tanjo • ,,
. The Lotus gospel : or, Mahayana Buddhism and its symbolic teachings compared historically and geographically with those of Catholic Christianity. hid 174 XIII. Kobo Daishi 193 XIV. Allegorical Teaching 212 XV. Allegorical Teaching {continued) 232 XVI. **The Unseen Friend 266 XVII. **The Great Physician 288 Emerald Buddha 308 XIX. The mount of Purification 333 XX. Signs, Symbols, Numbers 349 XXI. *The Sign of All The Nyorais 379 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. FIG. : PAGE 1. The Buddha of Infinite Life, Light, and Frontispiece 2. Joyes Tower at Tonouaine to face 8 3. Shaka-tanjo • ,, 17 4. Marriage of St. Catherine 18 5. Dainichi Nyorai to face 21 6. St. Barbaras Tower 28 7. St. Barbara 29 8. Fountain at St. Peters, Rome 31 9. A Korean Pillar and the Ram ......to face 85 10. A Ship-formed Church in Britain 120 11. The Mystery of the Lotus face 135 12. Tamon-tenno with the Tower „ 144 13. Prince Zenmuis Tower „ 182 14. A Footprint of Buddha at Nara 192 15. Kobo Daishi to face 193 16. The Cave where Kobo sleeps „ ••.... 203 17. A Butterfly Dancer 204 18. The Wondrous Ship of face 210. Amitabha, The Buddha of Infinite Life, Light, and Love, with the 3^ on brow,Svastika on breast, and Wheel-Mark on Hand and foot. THE LOTUS GOSPEL. CHAPTER I. THE INFLUENCE OF THE MAHAYANA TEACHING. Wliat is this ?—A New Word is this ?^ TO rightly appreciate this it is essential to carry ourminds back to the First Century of our Era, andto trace the historical and geographical routes bywhich, travelling from North-West India into China, theMahayana reached Chosen (Korea) in the 4th, andJapan in the 6th century, where the Buddhist art de-veloped so marvellously under its influence that theJapanese became far more highly civilized than theirEuropean contemporaries—far ahead of them, not onlyin art and material civilization, but also in moral principles—and, as it has been truly said : ** If any one desires tosee the Book o
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