CHAPTER X.
JAPANESE BUDDHISM IN ITS MISSIONARY DEVELOPMENT, PAGE 287 The missionary history of Japanese Buddhism is the history of Japan .-- The first organized religion of the Japanese .-- Professor Basil Hall Chamberlain's testimony--A picture of primeval life in the archipelago .-- What came in the train of the new religion from "the West".

Missionary civilizers, teachers, road-makers, improvers of diet.
Language of flowers and gardens .-- The house and home .-- Architecture--The imperial capital--Hiyeizan .-- Love of natural scenery .-- Pilgrimages and their fruits .-- The Japanese aesthetic .-- Art and decoration in the temples .-- Exterior resemblances between the Roman form of Christianity and of Buddhism .-- Quotation from "The Mikado's Empire."-- Internal vital differences .-- Enlightenment and grace .-- Ingwa and love .-- Luxuriance of the art of Northern Buddhism .-- Variety in individual treatment .-- Place of the temple in the life of Old Japan .-- The protecting trees .-- The bell and its note .-- The graveyard and the priests' hold upon it .-- Japanese Buddhism as a political power .-- Its influence upon military history .-- Abbots on horseback and monks in armor .-- Battles between the Shin and Zen sects .-- Nobunaga .-- Influence of Buddhism in literature and education .-- The temple school .-- The _kana_ writing .-- Survey and critique of Buddhist history in Japan .-- Absence of organized charities .-- Regard for animal and disregard for human life .-- The Eta .-- The Aino .-- Attitude to women .-- Nuna and numerics .-- Polygamy and concubinage .-- Buddhism compared with Shint[=o] .-- Influence upon morals .-- The First Cause .-- Its leadership among the sects .-- Unreality of Amida Buddha .-- Nichiren .-- His life and opinions .-- Idols and avatars .-- The favorite scripture of the sect, the Saddharma Pundarika .-- Its central dogma, everything in the universe capable of Buddha-ship .-- The Salvation Army of Buddhism .-- K[=o]b[=o]'s leaven working .-- Buddhism ceases to be an intellectual force .-- The New Buddhism .-- Are the Japanese eager for reform?
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