Gods and devils of mankind : the whole dark picture strikingly contrasted with the beauty and purity of revealed religion / by Frank S. Dobbins ; assisted by Hon. S. Wells Williams (1897)
Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton), 1855-1916 · [S.l.] · leaf 664
ries, and taught salvationby faith in Buddha, and not by works. They use thesacred Buddhist books in a translation into Japanese,while the other sects used the (to them) unintelligibleSanskrit and Chinese. Their temples are built mainlyin crowded cities. Their priests marry, and their sonssucceed… … INTERIOR OF KWANONS TEMPLE, TOKIO, JAPAN. JAPANESE BUDDHISM. 55. FURTHER HISTORY OF BUDDHISM IN JAPAN. The books and idols were brought from Corea in 552.In 584 several of the nobles at court professed faith inthe new religion. In 585 the pestilence broke out, andthe progress of Buddhism seemed to…
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