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"He who has left humanity is now perfected by Buddha's name, as the
withered moss by the dew."
"Life is like a candle in the wind."
"The wise make our halls illustrious, and their monuments endure for
ages."
"What permanency is there to the glory of the world? It goes from the
sight like hoar-frost in the sun."
"If men wish to enter the joys of heavenly light,
Let them smell the fragrance of the law of Buddha."
"Whoever wishes to have his merit reach even to the abode of demons, let
him, with us, and all living, become perfect in the doctrine."]
[Footnote 36: Rev. C.B. Hawarth in the _New York Independent_, January
18, 1894.]
[Footnote 37: In 781 the Buddhist monk Kei-shun dedicated a chapel to
Jizo, on whom he conferred the epithet of Sho-gun or general, to suit
the warlike tastes of the Japanese people.--S. and H., p. 384. So also
Hachiman became the god of war because adopted as the patron deity of
the Genji warriors.--S. and H., p. 70.]
[Footnote 38: Corea, the Hermit Nation, p. 90.]
[Footnote 39: Dixon's Japan, p. 41; S. and H., Japan, _passim_; Rein's
Japan; Story of the Nations, Japan, by David Murray, p. 201, note;
Dening's life of Toyotomi Hideyoshi; M.E., Chapters XV., XVI.
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