The Creed of Half Japan

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 V — PUSITYAMITRA

^49:1 The Jewish diaspora went as far as China. The Chinese Jews at Kaifongfu, in Honan, seem to have entered China between B.C. 170 and the Nativity of Christ, though laying claim to an even earlier date. But it is clear that they must be post-Captivity Jews. They are acquainted with the name of Ezra, and they possess portions of the books of Daniel, Zechariah, Malachi, Esther, They reckon time by the Seleucid era; they are ignorant of the name of Jesus, and equally so of the Rabbinical traditions. They know of Shiloh, which they interpret as the "great one descending man" (which is practically the Buddhist Nyorai). And they wear a veil over the face in reading the Law (Chinese Recorder, vol. xiv. p. 325).