A.S.J., Vol. XIV., p. 78.]
[Footnote 33: S. and H., p. 344.]
[Footnote 34: T.J., p. 73.]
[Footnote 35: Vairokana is the first or chief of the five
personifications of Wisdom, and in Japan the idol is especially
noticeable in the temples of the Tendai sect.--"The Action of Vairokana,
or the great doctrine of the highest vehicle of the secret union," etc.,
B.N., p. 75.]
[Footnote 36: S. and H., p. 390; B.N., p. 29.]
[Footnote 37: "Hinduism stands for philosophic spirituality and emotion,
Buddhism for ethics and humanity, Christianity for fulness of God's
incarnation in man, while Mohammedanism is the champion of
uncompromising monotheism."--F.P.C. Mozoomdar's The Spirit of God,
Boston, 1894, p. 305.]
CHAPTER VII
RIY[=O]BU, OR MIXED BUDDHISM
[Footnote 1: Is not something similar frankly attempted in Rev. Dr.
Joseph Edkins's The Early Spread of Religious Ideas in the Far East
(London, 1893)?]
[Footnote 2: M.E., p. 252; Honda the Samurai, pp. 193-194.]
[Footnote 3: See The Lily Among Thorns, A Study of the Biblical Drama
Entitled the Song of Songs (Boston 1890), in which this subject is
glanced at.]
[Footnote 4: See The Religion of Nepaul, Buddhist Philosophy, and the
writings of Brian Hodgson in The Phoenix, Vols.
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