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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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d, the paper-money stalls,the picture galleries of the gods, with the thousandsof artists employed, the incense stands in front of thetemples, houses, and doors,—all go to show the holdidolatry has. These symbols of paganism predominateto the south of the Yangtse. Building a Temple—Along the streets a priest isseen clad in a robe like a patchwork quilt, a pictureof Weito the Buddhist protector on his back, a smallstool in his hand, with which he stops every few rodsand kneels, beating on a fish-head and uttering a shrillcry; thus he goes for three years, when, being wellknown along the streets and his devotion well attested,he takes a book and collects subscriptions. . The monk 262 The Dragon^ Image, and Deuion. who founds a monastery and collects funds for its erectionhas his iniage or tablet placed within, and is afterwardsworshipped. A short time since, speaking to a priest ofhis temple improvements, he said, This temple I builton my knees, meaning that he had made the money by
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Collecting for a Temple. reciting masses for the dead. To erect a temple to thegod of the precinct, a tax is often levied on every store,as 2 cash per cwt. on rice. A priest erects a thatched hut, sits by his wooden fish-head, and beats all day and late at night; the old ladies The Idolatry of Buddhism, 263 passing by, get acquainted, and listen to the goldenopportunity for obtaining merit now offered, and someone gives him fifty cents. This is conspicuously mountedon a slip of red paper, and soon the whole side of thehouse tells of the gifts—Mrs. Lee «1; Mrs. Ming S200;Mr. Loh, 2^ cents; Hon. Mr. Pan SIO; Lady Chang$5, etc., etc. The hut is replaced by a couple of rooms,and gradually, as funds accumulate, never running intodebt, section by section and row by row is added. Inmost of the large temples there is a legend that thetimber to erect the buildings was miraculously drawn upout of a well in the court. The quickest method is by circulating a story of thevirtue of the god, as i

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