Freer, Charles Lang · Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co. · leaf 42
CONFUCIUS AND HIS PORTRAITS. 167 and that the usage of portraits and statues sprang up only after the introduction of Buddhist sects. At the present time, all statuary is removed from the Confucian temples, the tablet with the simple words “The Perfect Sage, the Old Master, the Philosopher K*ung”… … in Nan-yang College near Shanghai, with the four words on the walls: Ta tsai K‘ung-tse, “Truly great art thou, Confucius!” There are, however, two exceptions to this rule, in the great temple of Confucius in K‘i-fu and in a small temple dedicated to him on the T‘ai-shan, the sacred mountain in…
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