. The Lotus gospel : or, Mahayana Buddhism and its symbolic teachings compared historically and geographically with those of Catholic Christianity. e dayarise who would understand and preach the Doctrine.* This Pagoda, which I lately visited, stands nearthe shrine which Prince Shotoku^s brother Kume dedi-cated to Yakushi Nyorai (p. 126). In 736, Do-sen, a Chinese priest, introduced theKegon-shu, the fifth of the Nara sects. Ritsu, whichthe Chinese monk Kanshin brought over in 754, makingthe sixth. In 739 an Imperial Edict ordered every provinceto erect two temples, one for monks and one for nu
. The Lotus gospel : or, Mahayana Buddhism and its symbolic teachings compared historically and geographically with those of Catholic Christianity. e dayarise who would understand and preach the Doctrine.* This Pagoda, which I lately visited, stands nearthe shrine which Prince Shotoku^s brother Kume dedi-cated to Yakushi Nyorai (p. 126). In 736, Do-sen, a Chinese priest, introduced theKegon-shu, the fifth of the Nara sects. Ritsu, whichthe Chinese monk Kanshin brought over in 754, makingthe sixth. In 739 an Imperial Edict ordered every provinceto erect two temples, one for monks and one for nuns ;and ere long there were hundreds of temples in Nara,and numberless monasteries on the surrounding hills. At tliis time Nara covered 30 square miles, andcontained half a million inhabitants. It was called the^ Ninefold Capital, because of its nine Avenues leadingto the Throne, planned to represent the nine Ranks of ^ An ancient prophecy concerning St. Columba ran— A youth shallbe bom out of the North—^with the Rising of the Nations—Erin shall bemade fruitful by the great Flame, and Alba friendly to him. Cf. infrcch. 13. Kobo Prince Zenmuis Tower, At Kume, in Yamato. THE LOTUS GOSPEL 183 Nobility, the tenth being the Monarch himself,* an ar-rangement similar to that of the Ten Circles on the Altarof Heaven at Peking. Spiritually, it set forth the ** NINE-STORIED AZURE VAULT * (cf. Amos 9 : 6.), the central point or Axis of the Uni-verse, which, culminating in the colossal image of Daibutsu, was a laudable attempt of the Emperor Shomuto express visually, and intelligibly to the ignorant,spiritual truths concerning Him who is ** the Brightnessof His Glory, the Image of the Invisible God/ A Dominican monk in the 13th century, *\theAngelic doctor,* Thomas Aquinas, made a similar useof the number 9, applying it to the Nine angelic hier-archies, divided into three Choirs, or Triads of Angels,who cry aloud unceasingly Ter Sanctus to the ThreePersons in one God, {Chine
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