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