BUDDHISM AND BUDDHISTS IN CHINA
by LEWIS HODOUS, D.D.
Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER II. THE ENTRANCE OF BUDDHISM INTO CHINA
CHAPTER III. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF BUDDHISM AS THE PREDOMINATING RELIGION OF CHINA
1. The World of Invisible Spirits
2. The Universal Sense of Ancestor Control
3. Degenerate Taoism
4. The Organizing Value of Confucianism
5. Buddhism an Inclusive Religion
CHAPTER IV. BUDDHISM AND THE PEASANT
1. The Monastery of Kushan
2. Monasteries Control Fêng-shui
3. Prayer for Rain
(a) The altar
(b) The prayer service
(c) Its Meaning
4. Monasteries are Supported because They Control Fêng-shui
CHAPTER V. BUDDHISM AND THE FAMILY
1. Kuan Yin, the Giver of Children and Protector of Women
2. Kuan Yin, the Model of Local Mother-Goddesses
3. Exhortations on Family Virtues
4. Services for the Dead
CHAPTER VI. BUDDHISM AND SOCIAL LIFE
1. How the Laity is Trained in Buddhist Ideas
2. Effect of Ideals of Mercy and Universal Love
3. Relation to Confucian Ideal
4. The Embodiment of Buddhist Ideals in the Vegetarian Sects
5. Pilgrimages
CHAPTER VII. BUDDHISM AND THE FUTURE LIFE
1. The Buddhist Purgatory
2. Its Social Value
3. The Buddhist Heaven
4. The Harmonization of These Ideas with Ancestor Worship
CHAPTER VIII. THE SPIRITUAL VALUES EMPHASIZED BY BUDDHISM IN CHINA
1. The Threefold Classification of Men under Buddhism
2. Salvation for the Common Man
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