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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
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s, andfear the gods who hold the fire-brand, wield the sword,or hurl the thunderbolt. Nunneries—There are from fifty to one hundred nunneries in Soochow, withan average perhaps of a half-dozen nuns to each, quite anumber of them youthful,but others aged matrons, whohave great influence in thearisto/3ratic families of thecity as the spiritual guides ofthe ladies, and who havepower to checkmate a pro-clamation of the Governorby influencing his wife toplead in behalf of their order.As their raiment is similarto that of the priests, andtheir heads are shaven, it ishard to tell a nun from a priest. Every day, before thefirst rays gild the horizon, we are saluted by the dullsound of the mallet on the wooden fish-head, the nunsbeing paid for an interest in their prayers, and it issupposed they worship before the shrine, whereas on afrosty morn the fish-head is placed beside the couch.Some of these establishments own property which yieldsan income; some are family nunneries, where a lady of
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The Nun. Women and Buddhism. 285 wealth takes the veil, and to one of those in Soochowthe Emperor Kienlung gave the Heart Sutra, writtenwith his own hand ; in some the vestal fire (jjiik iiiihten) is kept burning; in others, the inmates eke out apoor subsistence by beating the autumn wind, i.e.,carrying as a present dishes of vegetables at the regular

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