Buddhism.--Miracle-mongering.--No self-reforming power in Buddhism.--The
Seven Happy Gods of Fortune.--Pantheism's destruction of
boundaries.--The author's study of the popular processions in
Japan.--Masaka Do.--Swamping of history in legend.--The jewel in the
lotus.

CHAPTER VIII

NORTHERN BUDDHISM IN ITS DOCTRINAL EVOLUTIONS, PAGE 225

Four stages of the doctrinal development of Buddhism in Japan.--Reasons
for the formation of sects.--The Saddharma Pundarika.--Shastras and
Sutras.--The Ku-sha sect.--Book of the Treasury of Metaphysics.--The
J[=o]-jitsu sect, its founder and its doctrines.--The Ris-shu or Viyana
sect.--Japanese pilgrims to China.--The Hos-s[=o] sect and its
doctrines.--The three grades of disciples.--The San-ron or Three-shastra
sect and its tenets.--The Middle Path.--The Kegon sect.--The
Unconditioned, or realistic pantheism.--The Chinese or Tendai sect.--Its
scriptures and dogmas.--Buddhahood attainable in the present
body.--Vagradrodhi.--The Yoga-chara system.--The "old sects."--Reaction
against excessive idol-making.--The Zen sect.--Labor-saving devices in
Buddhism.--Making truth apparent by one's own thought.--Transmission of
the Zen doctrine.--History of Zen Shu.

CHAPTER IX

THE BUDDHISM OF THE JAPANESE, PAGE 257

The J[=o]-d[=o] or Pure Land sect.--Substitution of faith in Amida for
the eight-fold Path.--Succession of the propagators of true
doctrine.--Zend[=o] and H[=o]-nen.--The Japanese path-finder to the Pure
Land.--Doctrine of J[=o]-d[=o].--Buddhistic influence on the Japanese
language.--Incessant repetition of prayers.--The Pure Land in the
West.--The Buddhist doctrine of justification by faith.--H[=o]-nen's
universalism.--Tendency of doctrinal development after
H[=o]-nen.--"Reformed" Buddhism.--Synergism _versus_ salvation by faith
only.--Life of Shinran.--Posthumous honors.--Policy and aim of the Shin
sect, methods and scriptures.

CHAPTER X

JAPANESE BUDDHISM IN ITS MISSIONARY DEVELOPMENT, PAGE 287

The missionary history of Japanese Buddhism is the history of
Japan.--The first organized religion of the Japanese.--Professor Basil
Hall Chamberlain's testimony--A picture of primeval life in the
archipelago.--What came in the train of the new religion from "the
West". Missionary civilizers, teachers, road-makers, improvers of diet.
Language of flowers and gardens.--The house and home.--Architecture--The
imperial capital--Hiyeizan.--Love of natural scenery.--Pilgrimages a