Identifier: lotusgospelormah00gord (find matches)
Title: The Lotus gospel : or, Mahayana Buddhism and its symbolic teachings compared historically and geographically with those of Catholic Christianity
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Gordon, E. A. (Elizabeth Anna)
Subjects: Mahayana Buddhism Buddhism Christianity and other religions
Publisher: Tokyo : Waseda University Library
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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d includesall things and phenomena of both matter and spirit, and as a storehouseholds many treasures safely, so the Virtue of Dainichi is vast, immense,guarding the Universal Life in His arms, and possessing excellent virtuesbeyond our imagining. So, on entering Religion, ones faith resemblesthe seed of a babe in its Mothers womb ; the process of learning all thedoctrines of Buddhas Mercy until one attains at last to be a Bodhisattva-(saintship) is like that babe growing bigger and bigger. That is why(says the Damichi-kyd-sho) the Mandara is called Taizo-kai, i.e. Storeof Great Mercy. 380 THE LOTUS GOSPEL Comiiig-from-above-down, having first ascended toobtain an Almighty power, in order to save people inthis world/* Now Pere Gaubil was told in China that theHebrew word Shiloh, (Gen. 49. 10-) contains a sacredMystery. It was a word of mysterious, sacramentalimport among ancient names.* Written thus, theletters correspond to the words :— 12; = Great ^.- ^ y-^^^ ^ = Descending H =One
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= Man. The Sign of all the Nyorais. The Taizo-kai mandara was revealed to Nargarjunain the 2nd cent., when in the Iron Tower, from whencehe also brought out Dainichi-kyo, which he there re- * Je7vs in China^ p. 40, James Finn, 1843. Supra pp. 36, 245, 251,295. Onkelos in his Targum renders * Shiloh,* Gen. 49, lo, as Messiah.(Cf. also V, 24, * From thence is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel,* withEzek. 21. 25-27). THE LOTUS GOSPEL 381 ceived from the Great Sun Himself.* Note that the Towerof Hermas did shine like the Brightness of the Stm ! This sutra gives minute directions for the correctdrawing of the Mandara, of which Dainichi Himself isthe Chief Figure amongst 444 smaller ones, each ofwhom represents one aspect of Dainichis boundless,limitless, endless, richly variegated Excellencies and Vir-tues, lit. His heart, (cf. pp. 225, 232). Some of these areBuddhas, some Angels, others Bodhisattvas, i.e. perfectedsouls nearing Buddhahood, all of w^hom are ready tohelp forward the Av/aken

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