China Opened Or a Display of the Topography History Customs Manners Arts
China Opened Or a Display of the Topography History Customs Manners Arts
Karl Friedrich August Gtzlaff
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They are therefore left to provide for themselves as well as they can, and they are by no means blind to their own interest. A large number live as mendicants, and receive before every door one cash as their due. In worshipping idols, they do not deviate from the customs of the state religion ; nor are they very scrupulous as to paying homage to foreign images not acknowledged by their religious code. Error may be easily confounded, but truth does not suffer any alloy. BUDHUISM. The life of the... founder of this idolatry is enveloped in so much mystery, that his very existence has been doubted by some, whilst others have presumed, that there lived and taught, at different periods, various persons of this name. The great discrepancies in the accounts of the period when he lived, and the many and strange stories that are current respecting his life and actions, sufficiently prove that the sage lived during the fabulous period of Hindostan, when the art of writing was known only to very few.
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