Religious System of China, Part 4
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780766133549
Subjects: Religions of Indic & Oriental origin; Eastern - General; Religion - World Religions; Religion
First sentence: The reader who has waded through the three volumes that form the First Book of this work, will have found that the way in which the Chinese dispose of the dead forms a rich mine of information respecting their ideas on the human soul, such as they virtually prevail among the people, and that it illustrates how vast the influence is, which those ideas have exercised upon Chinese social life in all its phases, since the earliest times known