CHAPTER VII.
RIYOBU, OR MIXED BUDDHISM, PAGE 189 The experience of two centuries and a half of Buddhism in Japan .-- Necessity of using more powerful means for the conversion of the Japanese .-- Popular customs nearly ineradicable .-- Analogy from European history .-- Syncretism in Christian history .-- In the Arabian Nights .-- How far is the process of Syncretism honest ?--Examples not to be recommended for imitation .-- The problem of reconciling the Kami and the Buddhas .-- Northern Buddhism ready for the task .-- The Tantra or Yoga-chara system .-- Art and its influence on the imagination .-- The sketch replaced by the illumination and monochrome by colors .-- Japanese art .-- Mixed Buddhism rather than mixed Shint[=o] .-- K[=o]b[=o] the wonder-worker who made all Japanese history a transfiguration of Buddhism .-- Legends about his extraordinary abilities and industry .-- His life, and studies in China .-- The kata-kana syllabary .-- K[=o]b[=o]o's revelation from the Shint[=o] goddess Toyo-Uke-Bime .-- The gods of Japan were avatars of Buddha .-- K[=o]b[=o]'s plan of propaganda .-- Details of the scheme .-- A clearing-house of gods and Buddhas .-- Relative rise and fall of the native and the foreign deities .-- Legend of Daruma.
"Riy[=o]bu Shint[=o]."-- Impulse to art and art industry .-- The Kami no Michi falls into shadow .-- Which religion suffered most ?--Phenomenally the victory belonged to Buddhism .-- The leavening power was that of Shint[=o] .-- Buddhism's fresh chapter of decay .-- Influence of Riy[=o]bu upon the Chinese ethical system in Japan .-- Influence on the Mikado .-- Abdication all along the lines of Japanese life .-- Ultimate paralysis of the national intellect .-- Comparison with Chinese Buddhism .-- Miracle-mongering .-- No self-reforming power in Buddhism .-- The Seven Happy Gods of Fortune .-- Pantheism's destruction of boundaries .-- The author's study of the popular processions in Japan .-- Masaka Do .-- Swamping of history in legend .-- The jewel in the lotus..