Japan and the Japanese illustrated . A CELESTIAL SENTINEL. A CELESTIAL SENTINEL. being more worthy of veneration. In this way is tlio infant Buddha represented, andwhen his biithday is eclel)rated nn tlu- eighth day of the fourth montli, the people gt> tohis Temple and bathe the statue in a dceoction of aromatic herbs, which the bonzes haveprepared, and placrd at the feet of tlif itnagi- iii a sort of holy-water font. The statuethen receives the adoration of the faithful, and tlir more devout sprinkle themselves withthis decoction and drink it. From the iiintli to the fifteenth day of the s
Japan and the Japanese illustrated . A CELESTIAL SENTINEL. A CELESTIAL SENTINEL. being more worthy of veneration. In this way is tlio infant Buddha represented, andwhen his biithday is eclel)rated nn tlu- eighth day of the fourth montli, the people gt> tohis Temple and bathe the statue in a dceoction of aromatic herbs, which the bonzes haveprepared, and placrd at the feet of tlif itnagi- iii a sort of holy-water font. The statuethen receives the adoration of the faithful, and tlir more devout sprinkle themselves withthis decoction and drink it. From the iiintli to the fifteenth day of the second niontlithe rcmombrancu of the meditations of Sakyaniouni in tlie solitude of the forests is 130 J^^FE IJ^ JAPAN: celebrated. This is a week of retreat and of preaching, during which the bonzes teach thepeople that the awakening of supreme consciousness in tlie soul of Buddha was in correlationwith the apparition of a brilliant star; that the sage, having attained to the full posses-sion of light, proclaimed during thirty-seven
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