In the second section we find "A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms"with a note, saying that it was the work of "the Sramana, Fâ-hien"; and again, we have "Narrative of Fâ-hien in two Books," and "Narrative of Fâ-hien's Travels in one Book."

In the two Chinese copies of the narrative in my possession the title is "Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms."

It is clear to myself that the "Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms" and the "Narrative of his Travels by Fâ-hien" were designations of one and the same work, and that it is doubtful whether any larger work on the same subject was ever current.

If, as stated in the note quoted from Professor Müller, the emperor countenances both the Tâoist worship and the Buddhist, he does so for reasons of state; to please especially his Buddhistic subjects in Thibet and Mongolia, and not to offend the many whose superstitious fancies incline to Tâoism.

Prajâpati was aunt and nurse of Sâkyamuni, the first woman admitted to the monkhood, and the first superior of the first Buddhistic convent.

Among other Buddhistic peoples "Gotama" and "Gotama Buddha" are the more frequent designations.

Think of the gentle Buddhistic Burmese, the active, social Malays, the hard-featured, hard-lived Thibetans and Mongolians.

He was nearly contemporary with Confucius, although the Buddhistic doctrines were not introduced into China until about two hundred years before the Christian era.

It is a mass of earnest "abysmal nonsense," an olla-podrida of theological whimsicalities, a saintly jumble of pious staff made upif we may borrow an ideaof Hebraism, Persian Dualism, Brahminism, Buddhistic apotheosis, heterodox and orthodox Christianity, Mohammedanism, Drusism, Freemasonry, Methodism, Swedenborgianism, Mesmerism, and Spirit- rapping.

It has been modified by Brahminical, Buddhistic, and Persian theogonies, and extended to Egypt, Syria, and Asia Minor.

It teaches men to be virtuous, like the Buddhistic books;' and then turning very politely to his captain, 'Will you be good enough to take care of this book till I want it.'

We entered the buildings, which were like all other Buddhistic temples the same images, &c.and were soon surrounded by crowds of the most filthy and miserable-looking bonzes, some clad in grey and some in yellow.

The Buddhistic faith does not seem to excite in the popular mind any bigoted antipathy to the professors of other creeds.

Though Buddhistic, they had not the hideous figures which are seen in the Chinese temples.

She saw all the pictures on the slate of yesterday and their message plainly, as something that could not be erased by any Buddhistic ritual of reiterated phrase.

We cannot say that mankind has gone very far along the Fourfold Path, for there are still many of us who would rather be a mouse than nothing; yet it remains an accepted truth of the Buddhistic doctrine, that above this fleeting and variegated world there abides the element of calm.

Natural religion, in its lowest stage magic, develops in three formsas the religion of measure (Chinese), of phantasy (Indian or Brahmanical), and of being in self (Buddhistic).

This religion did not gain a footing in China; only traces of it can be found in some Buddhistic sects in China.

It is important to note that in this period, for the first time, an office for religious affairs was created which dealt mainly with Buddhistic monasteries.

In the last centuries, Buddhistic ideas had penetrated all of Chinese culture: the slaughtering of animals and the executions of criminals were allowed only on certain days, in accordance with Buddhist rules.

Men like Chou Tun-i (1017-1073) and Chang Tsai (1020-1077) developed a cosmological theory which could measure up with Buddhistic cosmology and metaphysics.

He was also famous for his Buddhistic figures.

He begins with the Buddhistic system.

CHILDERS, ROBERT C., professor of Pâli and Buddhistic Literature in University College, and author of Pâli Dictionary (1809-1876).

a basket), the name given to the sacred books of the Buddhists, and constituting collectively the Buddhistic code.