Sacred Places In China E-Book

Carl F. Kupfer

• Herausgeber: Youcanprint
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENT. EARLY BUDDHISM IN HWANG MEI NGN REN TSZ—THE MONASTERY OF BENEVOLENCE KIU HUA SHAN—OR THE NINE-LOTUSFLOWER MOUNTAIN POOT'OO: CHINA'S SACRED ISLAND THE WHITE DEER GROTTO UNIVERSITY THE MANDARIN'S GRAVE LUNG-HU SHAN—THE DRAGON-TIGER MOUNTAIN CONCLUSIONS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

EARLY BUDDHISM IN HWANG MEI

NGN REN TSZ—THE MONASTERY OF BENEVOLENCE

KIU HUA SHAN—OR THE NINE-LOTUSFLOWER MOUNTAIN

POOT’OO: CHINA'S SACRED ISLAND

THE WHITE DEER GROTTO UNIVERSITY

THE MANDARIN'S GRAVE

LUNG-HU SHAN—THE DRAGON-TIGER MOUNTAIN

CONCLUSIONS

SACRED PLACES IN

CHINA

BY

CARL F. KUPFER, A. M., Ph. D.

President of William Nast College, Kiukiang, China, Kiangsi Province.

CINCINNATI:

PRESS OF THE WESTERN METHODIST BOOK CONCERN

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1911

Sacred Places In China By Carl F. Kupfer.

©David De Angelis 2017 [all right reserved]

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

Five Of the above-named papers appeared in "The East of Asia," a magazine published by the North China Herald, and the permission to reprint these papers the author obtained through the courtesy of that office.

EARLY BUDDHISM IN HWANG MEI

Sz Tseo—THE FOURTH PATRIARCH'S MONASTERY

It is probably not generally known, that in Hwang Mei Hsien, Hupeh, Buddhism found a most fruitful field in the early centuries of the Christian era. That long range of mountains north of Kiukiang is even now yet teeming with temples of more than ordinary fame. Thousands of pilgrims from many provinces visit these sacred shrines every autumn. The lamentable cries and moanings made by these pilgrims, when they prepare for starting on this pilgrimage, are not soon forgotten by those who spent the hot September nights in Central China cities. That their petitions may be answered, they take upon themselves the best vows, even promising not to look at a vain woman, while on the way to the temples.