Life and light for woman . r Woman. SAN PAO, THE THREE PRECIOUS ONES. This cut represents the Buddhist Trinity. The San Pao are found inevery Buddhist temple; they represent Veh (Buddha), The PersonalTeacher; Fah (Dharma), the Law or Body of Doctrine; and O-song(Sangha), the Priesthood, and are held in great reverence by all devout 348 LIFE AND LIGHT. [^Au^usff Buddhists. One of the Ten Prohibitions is reviling the Three PreciousOnes. A devotee of Buddha is assured of an entrance into the Paradise ofthe Devas as a reward for reverencing the Three Precious Ones, togetherwith keeping the other n
Life and light for woman . r Woman. SAN PAO, THE THREE PRECIOUS ONES. This cut represents the Buddhist Trinity. The San Pao are found inevery Buddhist temple; they represent Veh (Buddha), The PersonalTeacher; Fah (Dharma), the Law or Body of Doctrine; and O-song(Sangha), the Priesthood, and are held in great reverence by all devout 348 LIFE AND LIGHT. [^Au^usff Buddhists. One of the Ten Prohibitions is reviling the Three PreciousOnes. A devotee of Buddha is assured of an entrance into the Paradise ofthe Devas as a reward for reverencing the Three Precious Ones, togetherwith keeping the other nine prohibitions. The punishment for slanderingthe San Pao will last for ten millions of millions of kalpas. (A kalpa is aperiod of time varying from a few hundreds to many thousands of years.) In the city of Benares there is a double temple, whose exterior resemblesthat of a mosque. The domes are overlaid with thin plates of pure gold. Itsinterior is filled with almost innumerable idols, images of Gunputti, Parwati, v^ From Wonian^s Work for Woman. HINDU BOY WORSHIPING GUNPUTTI. the sacred bull, Siva, the indescribable ling, and many others. Thewhole scene was loathsome in the extreme. Swarms of people were goingin and out of the temple, and up and down the narrow alle3s leading to thettemple. Each one going in vvas carrying a plate filled with flowers, rice,and little cups of oil and water, which formed the offerings to the of flower-sellers, oil, and grain-venders blocked the roads on either•side. The water, oil, and flowers which fell to the pavement were trampledto a slimy paste ; and as most of the flowers were marigolds, the odor wassickening. The temples in the crowded city, the idols, the deluded woT^sliiping throngs, and, above all, the scenes along the rivers edge, all pro- /claim superstition, impurity, vileness,—a people given over to uncleanness \and all abominations. ^-^ iSgp.] THE SITUATIOM IN VAN. 349) During the recent famine in India the
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