^1:* A Japanese contraction for Namu Amida Butsu "Glory to the Buddha Amitabha."

^2:* Muryojukyo, Kwammuryojukyo, Amida Kyo.

^3:* Jap. shodo.

^3:+ If the Ahasuerus of the Book of Daniel is Identical with Cyaxares II of Xenophon's Cyropaedia (and Xenophon is sometimes a safer guide than Herodotus), it will be seen that there must have been a very close connection between the Medo-Persian Kingdom and N. W. and Central India. See article by Bosanquet on "The Chronology of the Medes" in the Journal of the "R. As. Soc." for 1858. If the Amida teachings are the genuine teachings of S'akyamuni himself, we must not only say, with the Shinshuist, that he did not promulgate them until towards the end of ministry, but we must go further and say that it cannot have been until the end of his ministry that he himself learned of the mercies of Amitabha. For it is inconceivable that a Teacher, with a large and compassionate heart, like S'akyamuni, should have been content to teach to suffering humanity the long and painful road of salvation by works and merits, and to have withheld from them the short and easy Path of Salvation by Faith. I conclude therefore that if this doctrine came to the Buddhist world from the lips of S'akyamuni himself, it was a doctrine which he only learned long after his Enlightenment under the Bo Tree, and which he preached as soon as he knew it. It was a "better way," and between B.C. 500 and 480, there must have been many opportunities, even in India, of learning of Him whose worship was at that juncture rising from a national cult to the world wide faith of an Isaiah or an Ezekiel.

^4:* I have touched on the connections with Gnosticism elsewhere,--in my Wheat Among the Tares, and in my lectures on the Japanese Mahayana, (not yet published).

^5:* Early India seems to have had a monotheistic faith of its own, opposed by the warrior caste (to which S'akyamuni belonged) against the prevailing Pantheism of the Brahmans. (Girerson, in Asiatic Quarterly Review July 1909).

^6:* Shinshu Hyakuwa by Nishimoto, published by Moriya, Tokyo.