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— 281 — Fifth Court, the corpse which it abandoned on earth, has already been so decomposed that the soul cannot animate it anew (1). The President, therefore, keeps them in the Underworld, and summoning the "buffalo-head and horse-face demons", Niu-t'eu, Ma-mien ^ Bf Mj M (2\ orders them to lead thevictims to the "Home Observatory", Wang-hsiang-t'ai H $![$ iff, where they can see their family. This is a platform, 490 feet in height and 81 Chinese miles in circum- ference. Curved in front like a bow, and straight at the rear, it is abrupt, and bristles with knives and daggers. Sixty-three steps lead up to it. Those who are mounted on this tower can see and overhear all that is said about them in their native villages : old and young cursing and execrating them, their heirs quarrelling and having lawsuits over the legacy, transgressing their last will and counteracting their plans. By this means, brought to a due sense of their wickedness while they world of mortals (3). Culprits punished in these hells. the victims are lived in the The following classes of sinners undergo the punishment of having the heart torn out in these hells. Some of the crimes punished are indeed enormous, while others are peccadillos of a most silly and trivial character. 1°. Those who refused to believe in Buddha and the Spirits (S/ien f^). (1) The Chinese believe that the disembodied spirit may re-enter its has not been own body, or that of another person, provided the corpse entirely decomposed. See Chinese Superstitions. Vol. I. p. 136. note 3. — De Groot. The Religious System of China. Vol IV. p. 130 (Resuscitation by one's own soul). — China Review. Vol. I. p 303. (2) The "buffalo-head and horse-face" demons attend on Yama, and carry out his orders. See pictures of them. Chinese Superstitions. Illustration n° 47. Vol. VII. (3) The idea seems to prevail in the Chinese underworld that no execu- tion can legally take place unless the previous confession of the culprit has been secured. China Review. Vol. I. p. 304.
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— XIV — Epochs of Chinese and J
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Preface XVI — CONTENTS. SECOND PA
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— XVIII — President: Tu-ti-wang
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— XX — 2" The 2 brothers of the
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59. Indra represented — XXIV —
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ARTICLE IX. KSH1TIGARBHA, BUDDHA OF
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Fig. 41 Ti-tsang-wang. Ti Tsang-wan
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— 238 — Wei-t'o ^ |?& (t). This
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— 240 — drew to an end, and he
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Fig. 56 Pou-tchao-wang aide Kia-lao
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— 316 — the word door-keeper by
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— 318 — |g, the Tantra Classic
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— 320 — The above legend is sil
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— 321 — funds are requested. Th
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— 323 — As a tutelary deity, We
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Fig. 58 Attitude de Yu-ti et de Fan
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— 326 — to mortals. He correspo
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— 328 — celestial abode compris
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Fig. 60 Hoa-chen et Hiang-chen sur
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— 332 — ARTICLE XVI. ARHATS OR
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— 334 — laymen thus formed vari
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— 336 — will experience no furt
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11. Number of the Arhals. — 338
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— 310 — rising in the air, will
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— 342 Arhats was known in China i
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— 346 — the Tibetan List, but s
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11. Rahula, Lo-hu-lo % '|ft — 348
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— 350 — He presides over 1 ,500
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— 352 — Watters mentions 4 othe
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17 18 Nandimitra Pindola — 354
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Fig. 62 Tze-tsai shen-shi, or Isvar
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16 17 18 Mo-ho-k'ia-yeh tsun-cheh M
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Fung-kan shen-shi.
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yuen, Kwo-yuen-sze ^ Jjiji — 357
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Fig. 66 Sheh-teh-tze, or "The Found
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Fig 68 Hwei-tsang shen-shi.
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— 360 — "Pure Land School'", al
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Fig. 70 Tao-yueh shen-shi.
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Cave". — 361 — 7. Ilan-shan-tze
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Fig. 72 Ts'ung-shen shen-shi,
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Fig. 74 Shen-tsan shen-shi.
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— 364 — by the term Shi-tze . ^
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— 365 — Honan jpj j$. Later on,
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Fig. 76 Mo-ho-k'ia-yeh tsun-cheh or
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— 368 — the Discipline of the T
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— 369 — Other Illustrations rep
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fa Fig. 78 Pu-tai hwo-shang or "The
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— 371 — for awakening of faith"
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— 376 — 4. The Groups of 1000,
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'/£ Hi (^)» made images — 378
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— 380 — made at various times,
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— 382 — the "Arhat who subdued
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— 384 — Amitabha's paradise (1)
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— 388 — AKTICLE XVII. THE 12 GE
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— 392 — In the Imperial Calenda
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— 394 — AETICLE XVIII. THE 4 GR
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— 395 — guardianship of the fou
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Fig. 84 Dhritarashtra, or Ch'i-kwoh
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— 398 — 3. Dhrilarashtra, which
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Fig. 86 Virudhaka, or Tseng-chang j
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— 408 — Each king has also his
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— 411 5°. P'u-kao-yun-chwang 6°
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Fig. 88 Tsing Long. Tsing Lung.
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— 414— . occasions. When Ngao-k
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Fig. 91 Kia-y
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1 ' Nagarjuna. "Long-chou Nagarjuna
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— 428 — and donned the Buddhist
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Fig. 95 Bodhidharma passe le Yang t
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— 432 — II. Second and Third Ch
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Ficr 97 Hoei-neng et le dragon. Hui
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— 457 — ARTICLE XXII. THE BUDDH
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Portrait de Tche-kong d'apres Fig.
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Fig. 101 Fou-ta-che. Fu-ta-shi.
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— 468 — ^ ^» (1) persisted in
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— 469 — sprang forward, whereup
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— 471 — His brother imitated hi
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Fig. 403 Hoei-yuen recitant les pri
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— 476 — ARTICLE XXVI, THE BUDDH
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— 477 — Law, even high official
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— 479 — One day, as he and Kuma
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— 481 — lations which I made ar
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Pei-tou navisue sur une feuille de
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— 484 — A youth placed nearby n
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— 490 — ARTICLE XXVIII. THE BUD
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— im- mortal life? My body is an
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— 493 — ARTICLE XXIX. THE BUDDH
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Fig. 40; Le bonze ou-wei fait tombe
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— 496 — The annexed Illustratio
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Core, Henri Researches into Chinese
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