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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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the first edition of theBuddhist scriptures was undertaken, of which not a singleancient MS. has withstood the ravages of time, andwhich has never yet been examined critically by eitherfriend or foe. The Forge of Lies.—As the Buddhists suppose thatAnanda held in memory the discourses of Buddha, all thesacred books begin Thus have I heard (equivalent inthe Bible to Thus saith the Lord ), as thus he heardBuddha speak. The wholesale interpolations are seen by 202 The Dragon, Image, and Demon. the references in Buddhas sermons to Amita, who was un-known for centuries; to Kwanyin, a divinity of later date;to King Ashoka, to the king of Hades, and to the island ofPootoo, where Buddhism was planted 1,500 years after histime. .During the succeeding centuries clever priestswould write a book and palm it ofif as if from the pen ofthe sage, and Buddhist writers, no matter at how late aday, must have the Masters imprimatur. Suppose thatthe followers of Luther, in all the ramifications of German
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Sand-Waiter. theological speculation, were to issue their works as ifthey were simply the stenographic reporters who deliveredverbatim the discourses of the great reformer, and thatthe books represented Luther as their author! Thisclaiming for Buddha the authorship of the sacred booksstamps Buddhism as a system of falsehoods. The religious, and many of the moral books of theChinese, are received from the gods by a sand-waiter orkind of planchette. In a room, where there are images, The Oriental Banyan, 203 pictures, and incense, on a table, is placed a waiter withsand in it. From the beam hangs a rope with a hori-zontal rod, to which is attached a vertical stick, andto this a bird is frequently fastened, in whose mouth issuspended a pen with an iron point. The literary men,who seek an oracular response, hold the ends of thehorizontal rod, and when the god or Immortal comes,there is first a verse, then perhaps an answer or a pre-scription, or sometimes a book, written character afterch

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