See Eitel's Handbook, pp.

18-20, and his Three Lectures on Buddhism (third edition), pp.

124-131.

I was talking on the subject once with an intelligent Chinese gentleman, when he remarked, "Have you not much the same thing in Europe in the worship of Mary ?" (24) Compare what is said in chap.

v.
(25) This nirvana of Buddha must be--not his death, but his attaining to Buddhaship..