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"It [Buddhism] denounces all desire and offers salvation as the
reward of the murder of our affections, hopes, and aspirations.
It is possible where conscious existence is believed to be the
chief of evils."--George William Knox.
"Swallowing the device of the priests, the people well
satisfied, dance their prayers."--Japanese Proverb.
"The wisdom that is from above is ... without variance, without
hypocrisy."--James.
"The mystery of God, even Christ in whom are all the treasures
of wisdom and knowledge."--Paul.
CHAPTER VIII - NORTHERN BUDDHISM IN ITS DOCTRINAL EVOLUTIONS
Chronological Outline.
In sketching the history of the doctrinal developments of Buddhism in
Japan, we note that the system, greatly corrupted from its original
simplicity, was in 552 A.D. already a millennium old. Several distinct
phases of the much-altered faith of Gautama, were introduced into the
islands at various times between the sixth and the ninth century. From
these and from others of native origin have sprung the larger Japanese
sects. Even as late as the seventeenth century, novelties in Buddhism
were imported from China, and the exotics took root in Japanese soil;
but then, with a single exception, only to grow as curiosities in the
garden, rather than as the great forests, which had already sprung from
imported and native specimens.
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