Nanjio, Cat. 1493, 1469, 1470, 1120, 1481, 1483, 1484, 1471.
[845] From Mo-lai-yè, which seems to mean the extreme south of India. Doré gives some Chinese legends about him, p. 299.
[846] For an appreciative criticism of the sect as known in Japan, see Anesaki's Buddhist Art, chap. III.
[847] Nanjio, No. 530. Nos. 533, 534 and 1039 are also important texts of this sect.
[848] In the T'ien-t'ai and Chên-yen schools, and indeed in Chinese Buddhism generally, Dharma (Fa in Chinese) is regarded as cosmic law. Buddhas are the visible expression of Dharma. Hence they are identified with it and the whole process of cosmic evolution is regarded as the manifestation of Buddhahood.
See the account by Edkins, Chinese Buddhism, pp. 271 ff.