[57] Literally, "the quelling of the passions."
[58] 長老坪.
[59] 開山初殿. See [Note 8] (p. 418).
[60] 阿羅漢.
[61] In the early Buddhist scriptures we learn that super-normal powers were even then supposed to be characteristic of the arhats, but it was generally considered undesirable to put such powers to the test.
[62] See the Saddharma-Pundarîka, translated by Kern in the Sacred Books of the East, vol. xxi. The Chinese version is known as the Miao Fa Lien Hua Ching (妙法蓮華經).
[63] See an article on this subject by T. Watters, in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, April 1899. See also Edkins, Chinese Buddhism, pp. 249 and 394-395.
[64] 華嚴頂.
[65] Manjusri (文殊師利) is a Bodhisattva who in China is practically worshipped as the God of Wisdom. Like Ti Tsang, Kuan Yin and others, he is supposed to have had a human prototype, or rather to have been incarnated in the body of a historical personage. But the truth probably is that any person of superlative wisdom was liable to be identified by his admirers with Manjusri. There is an interesting reference to him in I-Tsing's Records of the Buddhist Religion, translated by J. Takakusu (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896), p. 169. The translator comments on the fact that Manjusri was even by the people of India supposed, at one time, to be somehow connected with China, and the actual place of his residence was identified as Ping Chou in Chih-li.
[66] 蓮花石.