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 I — MAHaYaNA

But, before plunging into my subject proper, it seems but right that I should devote a few short chapters to the consideration of the person of the Founder, and of the extent of As'oka's influence, as shown by the rock inscriptions which that monarch has left behind him. These chapters will enable the reader more accurately to estimate the extent of the acquaintance which we may suppose Europe and India to have had of one another at the time when Christianity and the Mahayana sprang simultaneously into life.

Footnotes

^2:1 Nichiren, for instance, constantly speaks of ichi em bu dai (which is his way of writing Jambudvipa) as = India, China, and Japan. It was a protest, by way of adaptation, against the idea that a Buddha could not be born outside of India.