Footnote 38:[(return)]

Chamberlain's Classical Poetry of the Japanese, p. 130.

Footnote 39:[(return)]

S. and H., p. 416.

Footnote 40:[(return)]

Things Chinese, by J. Dyer Ball, p. 70; see also Edkins and Eitel.

Footnote 41:[(return)]

The Japan Weekly Mail of April 28, 1893, translating and condensing an article from the Bukkyō, a Buddhist newspaper, gives the results of a Japanese Buddhist student's tour through China—"Taoism prevails everywhere.... Buddhism has decayed and is almost dead."

Footnote 42:[(return)]

Vaisramana is a Deva who guarded, praised, fed with heavenly food, and answered the questions of the Chinese Dō-sen (608-907 A.D.) who founded the Risshu or Vinaya sect.—B.N., p. 25.

Footnote 43:[(return)]

Anderson, Catalogue, pp. 29-45.

Footnote 44:[(return)]

Some of those are pictured in Aimé Humbert's Japon Illustré, and from the same pictures reproduced by electro-plates which, from Paris, have transmigrated for a whole generation through the cheaper books on Japan, in every European language.

CHAPTER VIII

NORTHERN BUDDHISM IS ITS DOCTRINAL EVOLUTIONS