The Chinese Their Education Philosophy And Letters
The Chinese Their Education Philosophy And Letters
W a P William Alexander Parsons Martin
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It relates to the transmigration of souls, which is the fundamental doctrine of the system ; and informs the visitor that this is the divinity to whom he is to look for protection in passing through the successive changes of his fut- THE SAN KIAO, OR THREE RELIGIONS OF CHINA. 117 ure existence. Within the mazes of that mighty labyrinth, there is room for every condition of life on earth, and for pur- gatories and paradises innumerable besides. Beyond these the common Buddhist never looks. To ea...rn by works of merit which play an important part in the modified system the re- version of a comfortable mandarinate, or a place in the " Para- dise of the Western Sky, " bounds his aspirations. And to es- cape from having their souls triturated in a spiritual mortar, or ground between spiritual millstones in Hades; or avoid the doom of dwelling in the body of a brute on earth, constitutes with the ignorant the strongest motive to deter them from vice those and a thousand other penalties being set forth by pict- ures and rude casts to impress the minds of such as are unable to read.
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