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 699
d entered into his com-position; but those on the spot seem to be uncertain asto whether the gold employed in making him was mixed 698 TEMPLE OE THE GREAT BUDDHA. with the bronze of which he is cast, or applied superficiallyto him. That much has been applied in the latter waythere can be no doubt;… … JAPANESE IDEA OF THE JUDGE OF HELL. The dimensions of this god are truly colossal. Hisheight from the base of the lotus-flower, on which he sits,to the top of his head is sixty-three and one-half feet;and above this rises an aureole fourteen feet wide, abovewhich again rises for several feet the…
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