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162Pacific WorldNOTES1. An abbreivated version on the “Century of the Holy Man” is in a sectionof the chapter “The Three Jewels in China,” in Buddhist Spirituality:Indian, Southeast Asian, Tibetan, Early Chinese, ed. Yoshinori Takeuchi(New York: Crossroad Publishing Company, 1993), pp. 275–342; the Hsuankaomaterial is a recent addition and appended here; nearly all the raw datafor the various holy men in this study can be found in Hui-chiao’s Lives ofEminent Monks (Taishø, vol. 50, no. 2059).2. Peter Brown, “The Rise and the Function of the Holy Man in LateAntiquity,” in Society and the Holy in Late Antiquities (Berkeley: Universityof California Press, 1982), p. 107.3. The South had its own new crop of Taoist holy men but they had adifferent function, and that is another story.4. In an early Chinese translation of the Bible, Christ is said to be standingto the left side of God instead of the right.5. It is a common Christian belief too that a God-fearing nation like the U.S.would be so favored by God—and a God-forgetful nation would be dulypunished.