| Show t r OME TORIE ep A 13 pr iNAAM 04 jrie 51 1 I 1 ak ed JA 4 21 tir 0 of CM buddhism ie Is th tho Priti vitial religious faith ath of the chinese lone long ai as thil this religion baa has existed it Is little understood by american americans if its founder buddha was born 62 23 yer before the christian era his theory of deity embraced L trinity known as the T three ahro a precious Pre clou one ones the moril code ef of the religion con conkins tins ten prohibition killing stealing lying selli 9 vine wine charging interest on luani loam 11 speaking falee raise of others elf belt praise and back biting parsimony parel mony and sent uncorrected anger and reviling i the three precious Pre cloua onea ones 1 the buddhist church in haa ban ilu pope tta its cardinal cardina 1 its it bishops priests and nuni nuns exactly aa as hai has the roman catholic church and more it haa has intact baptism confirmation candle sacred water and the teachings of were re deuced to writing 93 D C the entire aa cation of the faith wa was compiled in A D in this buddha la is deperi bed As coming from honion 1111 tring irs r rn of kirsis clr IM elcock elco cd by an sai ala i se calved by an old saint presented in a IT temple baptized sed with water and late 1 by clr he la Is described as astonish aaton lat f anc the doctora doctors with his understand inc waa was later led into a wil wilderness derne where he waa was tempted by the devil dests v 1 1 and thereafter be went about doing i wonders and preaching lit waa was a friend to the poor it eema seems doubtful when am waa was introduced into china it Is a recorded however that in the year ca A D the emperor ilan 11 ming 1 TI 1 bad had 4 vision wherein bo be saw a crest gold en an 1 imago around whose head was a halo and it waa was believed it t meant fy truth the emp emperors eroes brother prince tu tau having heard of at buddhism hism from india said the he wai was nothing but tho the krat great buddha A mission wa WAI 1 s bent sent forth which returned after some year years bringing 11 back a wooden image a counterpart of the golden one one book and a hindu priest the creat great at pekin calle called I the kunig hung or the lama temple la Is a buddhist Dudd hlat monastery in which there are acme 1200 1 acting priests here the dogmas of are taught tin un ler the on con irol of a gagan or living lying 11 idalis the studies a course of in traction in vl ri a ascetic du tie ties astro astrology lugy slid nd medicine many chinese are Con furtan the ahm follow the of concu confucius ell lug which are the of anc tot one of the of this creed 14 1 that no son on khall livo morn more ly IY than hia his father or mother contrary to general awal apposition supposition the deities of the chinese are not mythical each of li if appod up pod to be 10 patterned after and to embody the noble traits of some man who haj it lived in the int 10 1 now well understood and both bud and taoism have been 0 40 o thoroughly explored that it Is bard hard to be aleve that anything of re latina thereto te Is to be discovered diee at least one more book upon this topic however remains to be compiled a R rhina av it 11 flonary such a work should contain an au account of all the principal devint jes actually worshiped by the chinese ith authentic details of aa as are historical together with a record of the steps by which many of them have ben beta promoted in the chino pantheon until like xuan tl ti the god 0 of ar from very humble beginnings bel innings they have become adjuvant nf of heaven the number of the these divia wes la Is ery tery large aa and included many that have been con sinuously ped for over 1000 year years N tit her the ainlee have ei er at any time in their lone long history bad had perception or conception of ono one true cod god pother flather ani creator of all thing things in a on that has been long and learnedly dig ehmed by athol hol arly students of classical writing writings it la is astill an open qu lutfi ion ton but there 14 1 no doubt at all that for many centuries cen turlee pat pat t they have worshiped the aun sun the moon the atari stars and a boat of ap gnp artl deities all the goda gods of aa may bom said to have been dead taen hen ta en and by the right of ancestral anc etral worship it be hot in a sense all tue the dead de td men of china are gods temples are i erected by byth tha conant bt of the emperor to men who while living h ve in earlous way ways hemsell hem seli hee en it 18 I 1 fol to ay that any one ot of abes men may not in the slow evolution of aee riso to the highest place among the national rit dl vinit les there can therefore to bo no doubt whatever tbt that as a A nation the chinese are polytheistic cl similar la in kome home to the of 0 christmas in christian count I 1 N the observance vanee of 0 the devi t birthday in rhina on tills th an silv many emaly gifts are laid u upon p on the altar of the evil 11 one chev atie e are many other superstitions current in ending sending the kitchen god to heaven every year the housek housekeeper toper has if bum burn it and let the fumes as evl it report reports on the good deeda deeds 0 of Q yc family for or the year and bringa brings brood luck before burning it the housewife bouee wife dips her finger in a jar ot of molasses and acears the alpar and awl lip ut the au idu lu to thai when he adires an i rea at tho the pearly city he may tell a ew aw et ct tale on the family and thus inure sure iene benediction dictions A family when gambling will cover the eyes of the idol until the card playing Is I 1 gli A woman in luhov city went wont to the temple to pray for the recovery ot of her ton too from smallpox lie recovered but aa marked with tf L effect effects of the ill dl are aae she returned to the temple in a great rage put a roll coil W ropo rope around the idols idol a neck and soused it leveral several times in the river saying III te epach ach you to loee lose your benlon influence you rascal floo t to TIVIES 1 wr oft dach bach conflict in which china baa has en raged caged liaa has resulted in a loea loss ct of territory the principal oes sloss 1 made by the mongol government as a the price of buee hare hate been the following follo wint the lland island of formosa waa was ceded to japan in IM 18 after the war with china in 1897 germany belied seized the port ot of klou chou on the east coast mast of the 1116 shan tune peninsula her excuse for so doing being a massacre maB mad sacre cro of missionaries which had taken place there two later she he reL melted elved from china chins a ninetynine ninety nine year tore lease ct of the port and district in 2893 russia 1 obtained from china a twant five lease of port arthur Talle Tallo nwan and heir their adjacent territories and waters the leace lease can be b extended by mutual agreement agre emert the same year the achl nese nt nit eire give for great britain to occupy U el al he lial wel wei for or aa As ions long a period aa as hall shall hold port arthur to compensate prance france for the concessions given 1 to great britain anil and huela a ninety nine year lease baie wan was given br her of the th bay of kwane chati wan on tha the coast the liland island of hainan lain and lait last year two liland islands a at abo th en trance of the bay were definitely ceded to her liong kong wai was ceded ta to great 11 attain in 1841 1 th the uio trva I 1 y the tc ty between the united state states and china negotiated in 1363 and proclaimed in 1860 p provided d ed hat that I 1 the chileon 1 government piar I 1 antee protect protection on to the american min leter later in bis his journey journeys to and from pekin and should protect him and his title abil I 1 pekin the treaty a 0 1968 negotiated by william 11 II seward and anson burlingame Burll nam pr protection of american citizens cit lien american property and american Amerl caa trade in article I 1 it Is declared nothing in this article shall be con to prevent the united stites from resisting an attack by any hostile power or party upon their citizens or their property 0 d 44 T IL aa w L L L I 1 ONE OP OF THE STR ErTS OF THE NATI NATIVE E QUARTER TEIl OF PEKIN BURNED BURNE DT BY TUG mons OF F FANATICAL xA C CHINESE |
