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"Holding-Pagoda King Lee"

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Identifier: dragonimagedemon1887dubo (find matches)
Title: The dragon, image, and demon; or, The three religions of China: Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, giving an account of the mythology, idolatry, and demonolatry of the Chinese
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: DuBose, Hampden C
Subjects: Taoism Buddhism Confucianism
Publisher: New York, A. C. Armstrong & son
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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The Dragon. gods and supports them so that they do not fall; thedivine dragon, which causes the winds to blow and pro-duces rain for the benefit of mankind; the earth dragon,which marks out the courses of rivers and streams; andthe dragon of the hidden treasures, which watches overthe wealth concealed from mortals. The Gods of Buddhism. l^^l The Buddhists count their dragons in number equal tothe fish of the great deep, which defies arithmetical com-putation, and can only be expressed by their sacrednumerals. The people have a more certain faith in themthan in most of their divinities, because they see themso often ; every cloud with a curious configuration orserpentine tail is the dragon : We see him, say they;the scattering of the cloud is his disappearance. He
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King Lee, holding a Pagoda. rules the hills, is connected with fungshuy, dwells aroundthe graves, is associated with the Confucian worship, isthe Neptune of the sea, and appears on the dry land.The dragon to China is what the lion and the unicorn areto England, and the eagle to America. The dragon is theemblem on the national flag, it is the crest on Imperialmonuments, the design on the Emperors robes, and thethrone of the empire is the dragon-throne. 3i8 The Dragon, Image, and Demon, Holding-Pagoda King Lee—He was a general ofthe Shang dynasty. His youngest son, Nacha, wentbathing and drowned the dragons son; the dragon soughtrevenge on the father, who called his son to account forthe murder. Nacha gave his flesh to his father and hisbones to his mother, and his soul went to the GreatExtreme. The Grreat Extreme took a lily and made hima body; the mother built a temple in his honour, whichhis father ordered to be pulled down, whereupon the twogot into a fight, and Janteng Buddha too

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  • bookyear:1887
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:DuBose__Hampden_C
  • booksubject:Taoism
  • booksubject:Buddhism
  • booksubject:Confucianism
  • bookpublisher:New_York__A__C__Armstrong___son
  • bookcontributor:Harold_B__Lee_Library
  • booksponsor:Brigham_Young_University
  • bookleafnumber:317
  • bookcollection:americana
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