Japan: its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London, Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 161
lise for their own good the experiences of other nations, they serious-ly considered whetherEuropean progresswas not traceable tothe influence of theChristian religionupon the people, andwhether they shouldnot adopt the Chris-tian faith, togetherwith a Europeancivilisation. With theview of… … Fig. 42.—DooK, or Gate, in the E.ast Gateway of theTemple, Nishi-hongwan-ji, Kioto. for eighteen months.In sending these particular priests the Government had a motive,for they belong to the most spiritual of all the Buddhist sects,—asect which has no idols, and allows the priests to marry ; but…
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