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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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t is the worshipof an idea more than of a being, as the theoreticalBuddha or Buddhaship is not so much a god as a stateafter death, a state to which all may attain. In thisreligion there is the inconsistency of worshipping anextinct being such as Buddha is said to have become athis death. To be resolved into Buddha or the Buddha-hood is the hope of the worshipper, so in reality it is theadoration of a vague thought. * A kalpa is a period of time varying from a few hundred tomany thousand years, not to be reckoned by months and days, a period during which a physical Universe is formed anddestroyed. The Theology of Buddhism. 209 Natural Science—The Buddhist scriptures havenot maintained a wise reticence about natural science.Mount Sumeru, upon which is the palace of Indra, or asit is called in Chinese, the thirty-three heavens, inheight equal to 168,000 yojanas,* in shape like aninverted cone, that is, the base above and standing onits apex, is situated in the centre of the world, and
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Mount Sumeru. beneath (as its depth in the sea is equal to its altitude)are the innumerable chambers of hell. To show the ready adaptability of Buddhism to itssurroundings, a monk in Soochow who has studied * The Yojana, the Buddhist sacred measure, is about fourmiles. 14 2IO The Dragon, linage, and Demon. geography sees that the old woodcuts in the sacred booksof this central mountain will not answer the presentadvanced ideas about our globe, so he has issued a pictorialpamphlet, resting Mount Sumeru upon the north pole,—rather a cold region for heaven. His picture is given. At the top of the Himalayas is a great lake, which isthe common source of all the rivers of the earth. Theearth is in the shape of half a calabash, sloping upwardson all sides to the summit of the Himalayas. India, notChina, is ^Hhe middle kingdom, and so the navel of theearth. What causes the tides ? The water flowingthrough the palace of the dragon assumes a blue colour,and as it enters or issues forth from t

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