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 J[=o]-jitsu sect, its founder and its doctrines .-- The Ris-shu or Viyana sect .-- Japanese pilgrims to China .-- The Hos-s[=o] sect and its doctrines .-- The three grades of disciples .-- The San-ron or Three-shastra sect and its tenets .-- The Middle Path .-- The Kegon 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..