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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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Eighteen Lohans. second the god of action; the first is worshipped princi-pally in Shanse, the second in the Sze-cheun province.They are ancient Buddhas, appearing among men as thehelpers of Shakyamuni, who styles the one eldest sonand the other little boy. 240 The Dragon, Image, and Demon, If it is a temple for the worship of the gods of Paradise,the central deity is Amita; on the right is the goddessof mercy, and on the left Tashuchi, the triad styled thethree sages of the west. There are also groups of threein the other temples—the Three Pure Ones; the Three Precious Ones ; the Three Holy Sages ; the Three Mandarins, and the Three Mao. The Eighteen Lohans.—They were originally six-teen, but two have by some means been added. Theywere distinguished members of the Indian Church, and
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Articles used iu Worship. passing through several degrees they attained to thestate of perfect saints. The term has a wider significa-tion, and sometimes includes the five hundred sageswhose life-size statues are seen in a temple at Hangchow.The Worship.—The candles used in worship aremade of the grease of the tallow-tree. Incense is madeby taking the sawdust of sandal wood, making it intoa paste, and pressing it through a small hole in aniron machine. It comes out like a wire, which is cutinto sections a foot long and sun-dried, then made into

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