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Abdications Of Japanese Emperors, etc., 260, 283
Abhidarma (metaphysical treatise) sect, 163
Abhiśekha. See Kwanjo
Accommodation of truth (see Hōben), 282
Ādi-Buddha, 107–110, 113. See Amitābha, Vairoc’ana, S’akyamuni, One
Akshobya (Ashuku Nyorai), 124, 128
Amaterasu, identified with Vairoc’ana, 201
Amida = Amitābha
Amitābha, 16, 128; as ψυχοπομπός, 129; expounded, 265; appears to Ryōnen, 271, 273
Ἀμιτροχάτης, 26
Anavatapta, Lake, 112
Anshikao, 111, 117; identified with Axidares, 118
Antiochus II., 33
Arcaoun (Christian), 338
Aristippus, 36
Arthur, King, 251. See Buddha
As’oka, 26, 28; edicts, 39; his policy, 47
Astikas, 109
As’vaghosha, 53, 79, 80, 96, 97,102 n.
As’vamedha, 49
Avatamsaka Scriptures, 113. See Kegon
Awakening of the Faith, 103
Bactria, 44
Baptism (see Abhis’ekha, Kwanjo) for the dead, 115
Benares, 99
Bibliothecal catastrophes, 80, 154
Birth stories, 85, 93; birth of S’akyamuni from side of his mother, 12
Bodhisattva, rules of, 133, 134,135
Bosatsu Kai. See Bodhisattva
Books, Buddhist (when first written), 86
Buddha compared with Christ, 20 n.; his country, 5; his begging-bowl, 99, 100, 102, 105 (see Arthur); one, original, 110 (see under One); see also S’akyamuni
Buddhas, the thirteen, 65; the Five, the Dhyāni, 62, 239
Buddhism, before Buddha, 325 in Alexandria, 59; in China and India (see under Sects); bankruptcy of, in sixteenth century, 348; disestablished in Japan, 378
Buddhist, clergy as registrars, 370; schools, 370; extravagances under Tokugawas, 374
Buddhoganga, Chinese ordinations, 142
Cannibals, mission to, 9
Causation, chain of, 20 n.
Chandragupta, 25
Changan. See Singanfu
Chang-sun, dying works of, 192
China, intercourse of India with Japanese monks in, 338
Chinese Refugees in Japan, 376
Christian echoes in Shinshu writings, 274
Chrysanthemum (16-petalled), 64, 123
Civil wars, 342; Gempei, 259; Onin no tairan, 344; Tembun Hōran 347; no ran, 348
Classes, in Dharmagupta Vinaya 133
Collaboration, Christian and Buddhist, 219, 226, 339
Confucianism, 170; schools of, in Japan 371; quarrels with Buddhism, 374
Constitution (Shōtoku's), 182, 210
Councils: Rājagriha, 21,132; Vaiśali, 23; As’oka's, 27; Kanishka's, 104
Creator, not mentioned in certain creeds, 266
Cubricus, 148
Cyrene, 33
Cyrenaics, 36
Daitoku, 218
Dalai Lama, 339
Death-bed custom, 273
Desiccation of Central Asia, 138
Destruction of Law, 124. See Millenniums
Dharmagupta, 131, etc.
Dharmakaya, 103
Dhyāni Buddhas, 62
Diamond world, 63
Diaspora, Jewish, extent of, 49
Docetism, 109
Dōkyō, 227
Donran, 214
Dōshaku, 214
Dualism (of Shingon), 240
Dutch scholars, 378
Dynasties of North and South, 343
Edicts, As’oka's, 28, 39, etc.
Egypt, outside of St. Paul's province, 60
End of age, 84
Euhemerus, 34
Eunapius, 143 n.
Excalibur, 251
Fah-hian, 157
Faith in another, 110; necessity of, 268, 273
Five Buddhas, 62; Dairiki, 309; herbs, 151; periods of S’akyamuni's teaching, 317, 320; rulers, 141, 154. See also 239, 254, 308
Forty-two Sections, Sūtra of the, 80
Fujūfuze. See Intransigeant
Fulin, 218
Galilee, 53
Gandhāra art, inspired from Antioch and Alexandria, 124
Ganjin Kwashō, 229
Gempei, 259. See Civil Wars
Genghis Khan, identified by some with Yoshitsune, 330
Genkū. See Hōnen
Gnosticism, 58 ff.; compared with Shingon, 61; Syrian and Alexandrian, 238
Gobharana, 78
Godaigo, 341
"Great One Descending Man," 50, 78. See Shiloh
Great Wall, erection of, 45
Greek Principalities in India, 55 n.
Greeks visit our Lord, 54
Gyogi Bosatsu, 198
Han dynasty. end of, 137
Han Sūtras, 52, 117, etc., 210
Harai (Sanskrit Parājika), 136
Hegesias, 36
Hejirah, 193
Herakles, identified with S’akyamuni, 85
Herbs, Five, 151
Heretics to be extirpated, 273. See Inquisition
Himalaya, 112
Hīnayāna, its meaning, 1 ff., 121; sects of, 24 n.
Hippolytus, 111
Hōben, 282
Hokekyō. See Saddharmapundarika
Honan, Jews in, 53
Hōnen Shōnin, 215, 272, 314, 318, 319
Hunting, not discountenanced by Kōbō, 250
Hwangti, 45
Iemitsu, 364
Image Law (period of), 91, 124
Immoral practices, 70
Inari, 254
Indians in Japan, 247
Indo-Parthians, 52
Indulgences, the Ten, 23
Inquisition (Japanese), 323, 324, 383
Intransigeants (Fujūfuze), 347, 372
Irish legends of Scythia, 46
Japanese, consecration of language to religious uses, 352, 365; constancy of Christians, 353; expeditions to Korea, 171; Imperial chrysanthemum, 123
Jesuits, at first taken as preaching a variant form of Buddhism, 339, 354; characterization of, 351
Jewish influence, 49; diaspora, 49 n., 55, 219
Jingu Kōgō, 170
Jiron sect, 164
Jōgyō Bosatsu (id. with Nichiren), 303
Jojitsu sect, 163
Jōshō-e, 68
Kadphises, I. and II., 98
Kaidan, 234
Kaifongfu, 53
Kamakura, 275 ff.
Kanishka, King, 73
Karma, 14
Kashmir, 22
Kaśyapa, 21; his ten dreams, 87; Canon, 126
Kāthā Vatthu, 94
Kawaguchi, Rev. Ekai (quoted), 70
Kegon, 112, 114, 165, 202. See Avatamsaka
Kennyo Shōnin, 339
King of kings, Hwangti's title, 45
Kingsmill, T. W. (quoted), 119, 120
Kōbō Daishi, 60, 125, 233, etc., 243, etc., 248
Kojiki, 206
Kōken, Empress, 226
Komyōji, 208
Kudara, King of, sends images, 172
Kūkai. See Kōbō Daishi
Kwannon (miracle), 207
Kwanjo, 115; of Ryobu, 249, 308
Kyūshū, Jesuits in, 354
Lamaism, 339
Legends, of Kōbō, 243, 245; of Asangha, 251; of St. Thomas, 71; of Ming-ti, 76; of As’vaghosha, 99; of Nāgārjuna, 113; Irish and Welsh, 46, 100
Liang dynasty, 172
Loc’ana, 199
Loyalists, 376
Mabuchi (Kamo), 384
Madhyamika system, 109
Mahāsthāmaprāpta, = Seishi, 130
Mahāvīra, 12
Mahāyāna, passim; contrasted with Hīnayāna, 1 ff.
Mailapûr, 74
Manichæism, 67, 145, etc., 213, 239, 241
Mantra (quoted), 125 n.
Mathura, 76
Matthew, St., 51
Marnas (quoted), 373
Mauryas, 47
Merchants, their religion, 9
Milinda, questions of, 91
Millenniums, 300, 304, 306, 340
Ming-ti, 76
Miseries of Japan, 241, 264, 344, 345
Missions (Christian), 156, 216
Mongols, Nichiren's warnings, 297; history, 329; invasion of Japan, 333; religion, 335; Christians at Court, 336
Nāgārjuna, 96, 105, 108, 147, 202
Namudaishi, 243
Nāstikas, 109
Nemesis, 14
Nengo. See Year-periods
Nestorians, 193, 203, 218 (in Japan, 223), 339
New Testament, all fulfilled, 83
Nichiren, 287; Nichirenists, 358, etc., 372
Nicolaitans, 55
Nicolas of Antioch, 69
Nihongi, 206
Ninefold Vision of Amida, 267
Nirvana, 14, 15; name of sect, 164
Ni-zen, 301
Nobunaga, 345, 353, 355, 356, 358
Ōbaku sect, 365
Odorinembutsu, 242
Ogdoad, 64
Ōgimachi, Emperor, 356
One Original Buddha, Ādi-Buddha, 110; S’akyamuni, 304; Amida, 266–8; Vairoc’ana, 64, 238
Ophites, 111
Ordinations, Chinese, 149, 155; in Japan, 234
Osiris, identified with Vairoc’ana, 64
Pallava (= Parthian), 74
Parājikā, 136
Parallels, Christian and Buddhist, 314, 340
Παρουσία, 82
Parthia, 43
Patriarchs, succession of, 22, 88 n.; Shingon, 256; Shinshu, 270 Patronage of rulers, 291
Pax Tokugawica, 368
Peisithanatos, 36
Pergamus, kings of, 33
Peshawur, 73
Pitakas, the, 21 n.
Pilgrims, Chinese, to India, 157 See Hiouen Thsang
Pleroma, 63. See Mandala
Pomash, 78
Practical subjects chosen by Han translators, 127
Prajṇã, name of priest, 247, 339
Priyadars’in (As’oka), 29
Prophecies, Buddhist, 91, 97, 305
Pushyamitra, 47
Ra., 38
Relics, miraculous, 79
Remnant of faithful Catholics, 372
Rennyo Shōnin, 348
Revelation, Book of, 83; contact with the Far East, 57
Risshō Ankoku ron, 307
Ritsu, 165. See Vinaya
Rivalries of European nations, 353
Roads in the Roman, Parthian, and Chinese empires, 77
Roshana, 199
Ryōbu, 141, 198, 246; abolished, 378
Ryōnen, 271
Sabbath, 16
Saddharmapundarika, 66; analysed, 161, 187; its divisions, 289, 300, 302
Saga, Emperor, 249
Saichō, 225. See Dengyō.
Saimyōji, 283
S’akyamuni, 6, 12, 18, 28, 126; his teaching, 15; no atheist, 17; character of, 20; identified with Herakles, 85, the Supreme, 298
Samurai, growth of, 263
Sapor I., 148
Sects: contemporary with S’akyamuni, 11; of the Hīnayāna, 89, 133; Chinese, 163; Japanese criticized by Nichiren, 293, etc.
Sei-wang-mu, 127 n.
Self-nature assembly, date of, 69
Shingon, 55, 60; comp. with Gnosticism, 61, 165; explained, 237; patriarchs of, 257
Shinshu, doctrines of, 269
Shinto, 371; part played in Restoration, 377
Shōguns, lists of, 342
Shoshinge, 269
Shōtoku Taishi, 175, 178, 209; constitution, 182
Shushi (Confucianist), 349, 364
Sila, 136
Silence, period of, in life of S’akyamuni, 18
Silk trade between Asia and Europe, 53
Silphium, 33
Six Letters of the Divine Name, 17 n., 38 n.
Soga no Iname, 173
Stoicism, 34
Sugawara Michizane, 259
Sukhāvati Vyūha, 110, 166, 212, 265
Suicide. See Self-immolation
Sun dynasties, 251
Sūtras, mentioned by As’oka, 42, 86; Shatparamitā, 123, 339; preached on by Shōtoku Taishi, 187–9; Amida, 166; quoted by Nichiren, 327; reduced to writing, 265
Swedenborg, 383
Sword, of Empire, 100, 251; two-edged, 308
Tada Kanae, analysis of his book, 269
Taihōryō, code of laws, 206
Taikwa, reforms of, 205
Taoism, attempts to amalgamate Buddhism with, 141, 154
Tathāgata, 82. See Nyorai
Tatsin, 217
Tendai, Chinese, 165, 231, 279; Japanese, 232
Tenshōkōdaijin, 198
Theurgy, in Egypt, Gnosticism, and Shingon, 68
Thomas, St., legend of, 71–74, 81, 113
Tiridates, King, 119
Tiruvallavar, 258
Tokugawa Mitsukuni, loyalist, 376
Treasures, the Sacred, of Japan, 343
Trinities, Buddhist, 120, 200, 203, 204
Truths, the Four Great, 14; apparent and true, 109
Turkestan, 22
Tushita Heaven, 92
Two ways of life, 110
Uighurs, 44
Upagupta, 22
Upright Law, period of, 91, 124
Usuns, 45
Vairoc’ana, 55, 108; identified with Osiris, 64; with Amaterasu, 201. See One Original
Vajrasattva, 107
Vajrayāna, 247
Valentinus, 58
Vargash, 119
Vedic gods, still powerful when, Buddhism came into existence, 11
Vehicle, the Third, 111 and n. See also 1 ff.
Vinaya, 131–2, 133, 175. See Ritsu
Water, Holy (in Shingon), 308
Way of the Buddhas, 16
Weaver, the Tamil. See Tiruvalluvar
White Horse, legend, 57, 78, 79, 312; monastery, 78
Wu, kingdom of, 139
Xavier, St. Francis, 339, 345, 350
Year periods, 205
Yoshitsune. See Genghis Khan
Zazen, 281
Zen, 164, 278; introduction into Japan, 281; explained, 224, etc., 365
Zendō, 160, 208, etc.; 323, etc.
Zodiac, Egyptian, Shingon, Turkish, Japanese, 65, 66
Zokutai and Shintai, truth divided into, 109
Zoroastrians, 216
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