 | 1833 - 530 pagina’s
...or Fat kaou. The various images of Budha, they call Poo-sat, and the priests Wothfung. — Budhism in China is decried by the learned, laughed at by the profligate, yet followed bv all. FAMILY LIBRARY, Vol. XXV. The eventful History of the Mutiny of the Bounty. London, 1832. This... | |
 | 1848 - 734 pagina’s
...men, while they admit the folly of these things, still join in them. "Buddhism," says Dr. Morrison, " in China is decried by the learned, laughed at by the profligate, yet followed by all." The priesthood have the better judgment of the people against them, and are rather feared for the mischief... | |
 | Samuel Wells Williams - 1848 - 682 pagina’s
...all, and they have themselves nothing better. The result is, as Dr. Morrison has observed, " Budhism in China is decried by the learned, laughed at by the profligate, yet followed by all." The paraphrase and commentary on the seventh of Kanghi's maxims against strange religions present a... | |
 | 1848 - 722 pagina’s
...men, while they admit the folly of these things, still join in them. "Buddhism," says Dr. Morrison, " in China is decried by the learned, laughed at by the profligate, yet followed by all." The priesthood have the better judgment of the people against them, and are rather feared for the mischief... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1853 - 678 pagina’s
...on an altar or table. Pictures adorn the walls, and gilded griffins and dragons the ceilings. Each temple has its apparatus for sacrificing animals....deities ; no sanguinary or impure observances; no self-inflicted tortures; no tyrannizing priesthood; no confounding of right and wrong, by making certain... | |
 | j.d.b. be bow - 1853 - 658 pagina’s
...worship. Buddhism is a despised creed in China, but still it prevails everywhere, and is followed moro or less by all the Chinese. Dr. Morrison says : "...deities ; no sanguinary or impure observances; no self-inflicted tortures; no tyranni/ing priesthood : no confounding of right and wrong, by making certain... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1853 - 658 pagina’s
...on an altar or table. Pictures adorn the walls, and gilded griffins and dragons the ceilings. Each temple has its apparatus for sacrificing animals....laughed at by the profligate, yet followed by all." Buddnism is doubtless as good a religion as any other in China. All creeds there are characterised... | |
 | 1857 - 528 pagina’s
...its golden chains. In speaking of Budhism among the Chinese, Dr. Morrison lias said: " It is denied by the learned, laughed at by the profligate, yet followed by all." Certain it is, that the laut proposition is true whether the others ¡iro or not, and one who has not... | |
 | William Dean - 1859 - 412 pagina’s
...found the religion of the Holy One. Instead of this they introduced into China a form of idolatry which is decried by the learned, laughed at by the profligate, yet followed by all. The third class in China are called the Tauists, or the Kationalists of the empire. Tau signifies reason,... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1873 - 832 pagina’s
...indifferent to the diversities of religious denominations. " Buddhism in China,"' says Dr. Morrison, " is decried by the learned, laughed at by the profligate, yet followed by all." No religion is taught in the common schools. The one creed upon which all agree is the worship of deceased... | |
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Buddhism in China is decried by the learned, laughed at by the profligate, yet followed by all." Buddhism is doubtless as good a religion as any other in China. All creeds there are characterised by the grossest superstitions and ridiculous ceremonies.... 
