[Footnote 8:  Romesh Chunder Dutt’s Ancient India, p. 100.]

[Footnote 9:  Origin and Growth of Religion by T. Rhys Davids, p. 28.]

[Footnote 10:  Job i. 6, Hebrew.]

[Footnote 11:  Origin and Growth of Religion, p. 29.]

[Footnote 12:  “Buddhism so far from tracing ‘all things’ to ‘matter’ as their original, denies the reality of matter, but it nowhere denies the reality of existence.”—­The Phoenix, Vol.  I., p. 156.]

[Footnote 13:  See A Year among the Persians, by Edward G. Browne, London, 1893.]

[Footnote 14:  Dutt’s History of India, pp. 153-156.  See also Mozoomdar’s The Spirit of God, p. 305.  “Buddhism, though for a long time it supplanted the parent system, was the fulfilment of the prophecy of universal peace, which Hinduism had made; and when, in its turn, it was outgrown by the instincts of the Aryans, it had to leave India indeed forever, but it contributed quite as much to Indian religion as it had ever borrowed.”]

[Footnote 15:  Korean Repository, Vol.  I., pp. 101, 131, 153; Siebold’s Nippon, Archiv; Report of the U.S.  Commissioner of Education, 1890-91, Vol.  I., p. 346; Dallet’s Histoire de l’Eglise de Coree, Vol. 1., Introd., p. cxlv.; Corea, the Hermit Nation, p. 331.]

[Footnote 16:  See Brian H. Hodgson’s The Literature and History of the Buddhists, in Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, which is epitomized in The Phoenix, Vol.  I.; Beal’s Buddhism in China, Chap.  II.; T. Rhys Davids’s Buddhism, etc.  To Brian Houghton Hodgson, (of whose death at the ripe age of ninety-three years we read in Luzac’s Oriental List) more than to any one writer, are we indebted for our knowledge of Northern or Mahayana Buddhism.]

[Footnote 17:  See the very accurate, clear, and full definitions and explanations in The Century Dictionary.]

[Footnote 18:  This subject is fully discussed by Professor T. Rhys Davids in his compact Manual of Buddhism.]

[Footnote 19:  See Century Dictionary.]

[Footnote 20:  Jap.  Mon-ju.  One of the most famous images of this Bodhisattva is at Zenko-ji, Nagano.  See Kern’s Saddharma Pundarika, p. 8, and the many referents to Manjusri in the Index.  That Manjusri was the legendary civilizer of Nepaul seems probable from the following extract from Brian Hodgson:  “The Swayambhu Purana relates in substance as follows:  That formerly the valley of Nepaul was of circular form, and full of very deep water, and that the mountains confining it were clothed with the densest forests, giving shelter to numberless birds and beasts.  Countless waterfowl rejoiced in the waters....

“...  Vipasyi, having thrice circumambulated the lake, seated himself in the N.W. (Vayubona) side of it, and, having repeated several mantras over the root of a lotos, he threw it into the water, exclaiming, ’What time this root shall produce a flower, then, from out of the flower, Swayambhu, the Lord of Agnishtha Bhuvana, shall be revealed in the form of flame; and then shall the lake become a cultivated and populous country.’  Having repeated these words, Vipasyi departed.  Long after the date of this prophecy, it was fulfilled according to the letter....