...or Fat kaou. The various images of Budha, they call Poo-sat, and the priests Wothfung. — Budhism in China is decried by the learned, laughed at by the profligate, yet followed bv all. FAMILY LIBRARY, Vol. XXV. The eventful History of the Mutiny of the Bounty. London, 1832. This...

...men, while they admit the folly of these things, still join in them. "Buddhism," says Dr. Morrison, " in China is decried by the learned, laughed at by the profligate, yet followed by all." The priesthood have the better judgment of the people against them, and are rather feared for the mischief...

...all, and they have themselves nothing better. The result is, as Dr. Morrison has observed, " Budhism in China is decried by the learned, laughed at by the profligate, yet followed by all." The paraphrase and commentary on the seventh of Kanghi's maxims against strange religions present a...

...men, while they admit the folly of these things, still join in them. "Buddhism," says Dr. Morrison, " in China is decried by the learned, laughed at by the profligate, yet followed by all." The priesthood have the better judgment of the people against them, and are rather feared for the mischief...

...on an altar or table. Pictures adorn the walls, and gilded griffins and dragons the ceilings. Each temple has its apparatus for sacrificing animals....deities ; no sanguinary or impure observances; no self-inflicted tortures; no tyrannizing priesthood; no confounding of right and wrong, by making certain...

...worship. Buddhism is a despised creed in China, but still it prevails everywhere, and is followed moro or less by all the Chinese. Dr. Morrison says : "...deities ; no sanguinary or impure observances; no self-inflicted tortures; no tyranni/ing priesthood : no confounding of right and wrong, by making certain...

...on an altar or table. Pictures adorn the walls, and gilded griffins and dragons the ceilings. Each temple has its apparatus for sacrificing animals....laughed at by the profligate, yet followed by all." Buddnism is doubtless as good a religion as any other in China. All creeds there are characterised...

...its golden chains. In speaking of Budhism among the Chinese, Dr. Morrison lias said: " It is denied by the learned, laughed at by the profligate, yet followed by all." Certain it is, that the laut proposition is true whether the others ¡iro or not, and one who has not...

...found the religion of the Holy One. Instead of this they introduced into China a form of idolatry which is decried by the learned, laughed at by the profligate, yet followed by all. The third class in China are called the Tauists, or the Kationalists of the empire. Tau signifies reason,...

...indifferent to the diversities of religious denominations. " Buddhism in China,"' says Dr. Morrison, " is decried by the learned, laughed at by the profligate, yet followed by all." No religion is taught in the common schools. The one creed upon which all agree is the worship of deceased...