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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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, place him in a high rank among menof religious enthusiasm. His life and travels, with many moving incidents and hair-breadth escapes, is saidto be quite entertaining. A popular romance, withaccounts of gods and goddesses, fairies and demons, isbased on the account of his journeys. Hieuntsangbrought with him 115 grains of relics from Buddhaschair, a gold statue of Buddha three feet three incheshigh, and, it is said, 657 books, which he assisted intranslating. This was a favourable period for Budd-hism. Pagodas and Relics.—The primary object of thepagoda is a depository for the relics of Buddhas burntbody. Shakyamuni prophesied that King Ashoka woulderect 80,000 pagodas for the relics which are objects ofreverential worship to these religionists. In A.D. 819, the Emperor sent a delegation of man- The Oriental Banyan. 197 darins t-o escort a bone of Buddha to the capital. Thiscalled forth from the distinguished statesman, Han Wen-kung, the celebrated ^ Memorial on the Bone of Buddha,
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Soochow Pagoda. which is a standard document among the Confucianists,and for which he was banished. He was, however, after-wards recalled. The indignant manner in which Han iqS The Dragon^ Image, and Demon. Wenkung speaks of the supposed finger-bone of Buddhais worthy of being imitated by all foes to relic worship.A thousand years ago this Protestant says, Buddha hasbeen dead a long time, and here was the Son of Heavenbringing this stinking bone of a dead barbarian into theinterior of his palace. There was not even the preliminaryceremony of exorcising the noxious demons by whiskingthem out with branches of the peach and lie trees.Another Confucianist asks, What can a bone, or a tooth,or a nail do for living men ? If you are hungry thesethings cannot feed you, if cold, they cannot clothe you,and if sick, they cannot cure you. Confucianists have now turned the pagoda from itsoriginal design into regulators of Fungshuy, or theinfluences of the wind and water, by which they obtainpeace a

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