CHAPTER VIII

NORTHERN BUDDHISM IN ITS DOCTRINAL EVOLUTIONS, PAGE 225

Four stages of the doctrinal development of Buddhism in Japan.--Reasons

for the formation of sects.--The Saddharma Pundarika.--Shastras and

Sutras.--The Ku-sha sect.--Book of the Treasury of Metaphysics.--The

Jō-jitsu sect, its founder and its doctrines.--The Ris-shu or Viyana

sect.--Japanese pilgrims to China.--The Hos-sō sect and its

doctrines.--The three grades of disciples.--The San-ron or Three-shastra

sect and its tenets.--The Middle Path.--The Kégon sect.--The

Unconditioned, or realistic pantheism.--The Chinese or Tendai sect.--Its

scriptures and dogmas.--Buddhahood attainable in the present

body.--Vagradrodhi.--The Yoga-chara system.--The "old sects."--Reaction

against excessive idol-making.--The Zen sect.--Labor-saving devices in

Buddhism.--Making truth apparent by one's own thought.--Transmission of

the Zen doctrine.--History of Zen Shu.

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