The botanical gardens, wonderful for their variety
of products 132
Anurajahpura and its ruined pagoda, a solid conical
mass of brick 133
One thousand six hundred pillars of stone, the
foundations of an ancient monastery 133
Cremation of a Buddhist priest, and our reception
by the high priest of the remaining temple 134
XIII. JAVA AND BUDDHISM 137-146
Java, the jewel of the Dutch Crown, has
thirty-five millions of people 139
The "culture system" makes it immensely productive 139
Mistakes of Holland in matters of government and
education 140
A back-bone of volcanic mountains furnishes
unsurpassed railway views 140
Endless fields of rice and sugar-cane on hillside
and plain 141
A passionate people reveal themselves in their
music, their shadow-dances, their use of the
Malay dagger 141
The new policy of the Dutch government shown in
the botanical gardens 142
More scientific and practical than those of Ceylon,
they minister to all the world 142
Doctor Lovink, Dutch minister of agriculture,
conducts us 143
The temple of Boro Budor, restored after ruin, the
greatest wonder of Java 143
Five times as great as any English cathedral 143
Sculptures in alto-relievo that would stretch three
miles 144
A picture-gallery of the life of Buddha 144
Buddhism has no personal or living God, and no
atonement for sin 145
Boro Budor, slowly disintegrating, has no power to
combat either Mohammedanism or
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