The Story of China And Her Neighbors : Their Manners, Customs, Life And History, From the Earliest Times to the Present, Including the Boxer Uprising, Massacre of Foreigners And Operations of the Allied Powers
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Its commandments are the dictates of tlie most refined morality.
Such was Buddhism in its early purity. Beside its moral code and philosophical doctrines it had almost notliing. But in the twelve centuries which passed while it swept through India, Birmah, Siam, Cliina, Thibet, Maiicliooria, Corea, and Siberia, it acquired tlie apparel with wliich Asiatic imagination and priestly necessity had clothed and adorned the original doctrines of Buddha. The ideas of Buddha had been expanded into a com...plete theological system, with all the appurtenances of a stock religion. Japan was ready for the introduction of any religion as attractive as Buddhism, for prior to that time nothing existed except Shinto, of which there was little but the dogma of the divinity of the mikado, the duty of all Japanese to obey him im- plicitly, and some Confucian morals.
Buddhism came to touch the heart, to fire tlie imagination, to feed the intellect, to offer a code ut lofty morals, to point out a pure life tlirough self-denial, to awe the ignorant, and to terrify the doubting..
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Its commandments are the dictates of tlie most refined morality.
Such was Buddhism in its early purity. Beside its moral code and philosophical doctrines it had almost notliing. But in the twelve centuries which passed while it swept through India, Birmah, Siam, Cliina, Thibet, Maiicliooria, Corea, and Siberia, it acquired tlie apparel with wliich Asiatic imagination and priestly necessity had clothed and adorned the original doctrines of Buddha. The ideas of Buddha had been expanded into a com...plete theological system, with all the appurtenances of a stock religion. Japan was ready for the introduction of any religion as attractive as Buddhism, for prior to that time nothing existed except Shinto, of which there was little but the dogma of the divinity of the mikado, the duty of all Japanese to obey him im- plicitly, and some Confucian morals.
Buddhism came to touch the heart, to fire tlie imagination, to feed the intellect, to offer a code ut lofty morals, to point out a pure life tlirough self-denial, to awe the ignorant, and to terrify the doubting..
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