22. The secret doctrines which he had learned in the land of the Tang, together with many precious and rare objects for the protection of the land, all these, together with the catalogue, he offered in the Imperial Palace.

23. When, to return thanks for the divine protection afforded to him during his travels, he offered incantations before the treeless temple-ground (of the god of Kasui), straightway green leaves and bright flowers came forth in abundance on what had till then been the "Naked Mountain."

24. Our land had once possessed the tea-plant, but the use of tea had been quite forgotten. Our Sage brought with him a millstone and some seeds of the tea-plant,

and taught our people how to prepare tea and drink it.

[I omit verses 25-28, the only one of any importance being the one in which Shotoku Taishi is said to have appeared to him to teach him the Shoman-gyo, a Sutra which concerns itself mainly with the duties of lay women. V. 29 is important.]

29. In the second month of the second year of Konin (Feb., 811 A.D.), along with the Emperor Saga, he received the Kwanjo of the gods from the hands of Onakatomi, the famous ritualist.

30. Then, beginning with Dengyo Daishi, he admitted into his Church the head priests of all the Nara sects who had faith in his doctrines, and administered to them the

[paragraph continues] Baptism which admitted them into the priesthood of the Secret Doctrine.

31. At a religious discussion in the Palace of the Seiryoden his body suddenly assumed the appearance of Vairoc'ana. The Divine Light (Komyo) streamed out from him, and the whole company, overawed and trembling, fell to the ground and worshipped him.

32. That he might pray for the prosperity of the Fujiwara House, he set up an altar in the Nannendo (at Nara), and there offered worship to Kenjaku Son. Thereupon the god (of Kasuga) made his appearance and chanted a song of praise.

33. From China he brought to Japan the soil upon which the eight pagodas, had stood. This soil he divided amongst eighty-eight places (in Sanuki), so that they who suffer from illness, as the result of Karma either in the past life or present, might go round them on pilgrimage and so be cleansed from their sins.

34. He prayed where the water was brackish, where it was foul, where there was no water at all. Everywhere, to the great joy of mankind, wells of pure water sprang up.

35. In the mountainous districts of the province of Kii, two dogs, one white and one black, and a hunter,

came to show him the way, and brought him to a place where there had once been the shrine of an ancient Buddha. The god was the guardian deity of that hunting-place.

36. Then Nyuzu appeared, the god of that place (Koya), and offered him that place until the coming of Maitreya, in order that the land might be blessed by him (Kobo).