History of Religion / A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems

by Allan Menzies

De Groot, The Religious System of China, vols. i.-iv., 1892-1901. Also a small book, The Religion of the Chinese, 1910.

Beal, Buddhism in China, 1884.

Murray's Guide to Japan.

J. Edkins' Religion in China, 1878, the account of a modern missionary, may be consulted.

On Taoism, Pfizmaier, Die Lösung der Leichname und Schwerter, 1870; and Die Tao-lehre von dem wahren Menschen und den Unsterblichen, 1870. Julius Grill, Lao-tsze's Buch vom höchsten Wesen und vom höchsten gut. Tao-te-King, 1910. Vols. xxxix.-xl. of the S.B.E. give Taoist Texts.

Revon, Le Shintoisme, 1907.

CHAPTER IX

THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT EGYPT