^224:1 It is said of Zendo that he and his disciples were much given to itinerant preaching. So were the Nestorians. The Greek merchant Cosmas Indicopleustes, who was in India A.D. 535, mentions a Nestorian order of itinerant preachers named Periodeutae, or wanderers, who were busy in his days evangelizing in N. W. India. Olopen himself. may have been one; we find him in China and then in India. It is possible that Kuya and Eikwan may have been itinerant preachers after this type, having learned the value of it from Zendo. So also may have been the mysterious personage who, in 1095, appeared to Ryonin, the founder of the Yudzunembutsu, and told him of the "One man that stood for all men, and the one religious act that embraced all others." Ippen (1239-1239), the founder of the Ji Sect, wandered in his allegiance from the Tendai to the Seizanha of the Jodo, and finally founded a sect of his own. He was a great student of Zendo, both as a teacher and as an artist, and his sect was intended to be a reproduction of Zendo's teachings. His nickname was Yugyo Shonin, "the itinerating preacher," and to this day, the head of the Ji sect is supposed to be always travelling about the country preaching.
Chapters
- Front Matter
- CHAPTER I — MAHaYaNA
- CHAPTER II — THE STAGE ON WHICH S'AKYAMUNI MADE HIS APPEA...
- CHAPTER III — THE BUDDHA AND HIS GREATEST DISCIPLE
- CHAPTER IV — THE PRE-CHRISTIAN EXPANSION OF BUDDHISM
- CHAPTER V — PUSITYAMITRA
- CHAPTER VI — THE NEW TESTAMENT IN TOUCH WITH THE EAST
- CHAPTER VII — ALEXANDRIA AND ANTIOCH AT THE TIME OF CHRIST
- CHAPTER VIII — THE LEGEND OF ST. THOMAS
- CHAPTER IX — THE CALL FROM CHINA
- CHAPTER X — BUDDHISM JUST BEFORE THE COMING OF CHRISTIANITY
- CHAPTER XI — AS'VAGHOSHA
- CHAPTER XII — NaGaRJUNA
- CHAPTER XIII — THE MISSIONARIES OF THE HAN
- CHAPTER XIV — DHARMAGUPTA [*1]
- CHAPTER XV — MANICHaeISM
- CHAPTER XVI — CHINA IN THE THIRD, FOURTH, AND FIFTH CENTU...
- CHAPTER XVII — BUDDHISM REACHES JAPAN
- CHAPTER XVIII — THE CROWN PRINCE SHoTOKU TAISHI
- CHAPTER XIX — BUDDHISM DURING THE NARA PERIOD [*1] FROM A...
- CHAPTER XX — HEIAN BUDDHISM [*1]
- CHAPTER XXI — "NAMUDAISHI"
- CHAPTER XXII — THE BUDDHISM OF THE GEMPEI PERIOD [*1]
- CHAPTER XXIII — THE BUDDHISM OF KAMAKURA
- CHAPTER XXIV — NICHIREN AND THE EARLIER SECTS
- CHAPTER XXV — "RISSHo ANKOKU RON"
- CHAPTER XXVI — THE MONGOLS
- CHAPTER XXVII — THE BUDDHISM OF THE MUROMACHI AGE
- CHAPTER XXVIII — THE PERIOD OF THE CATHOLIC MISSIONS
- CHAPTER XXIX — THE BUDDHISM OF THE TOKUGAWA PERIOD
- CHAPTER XXX. — RECAPITULATION
CHAPTER XIX — BUDDHISM DURING THE NARA PERIOD [*1] FROM A.D. 621-782