Buddhism and Buddhists in Japan
By: by Robert Cornell Armstrong
Series: [World's living religions]
Publisher: S.P.C.K.
Published: 1927
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: Buddhism; Buddhist sects; Religion
Description: "Intended to furnish accurate and trustworthy, though brief and popular presentations of the actual religious life of each great region of the non-Christian world. It purposes to give to students of religion in the West, and particularly to young missionaries who are planning to go to the Far East, a vivid idea of the religious conditions which exist in Japan and some understanding of the hold of Buddhism upon thsoe who follow it."--Preface.
Notes: "A brief annotated bibliography": p. 141-144.
Table of contents: title: The establishment of Buddhism as the leading religion of Japan; title: The temples, symbols and priests of Buddhism; title: Buddhism an other-worldly religion; title: Present-day Buddhism's emphasis on moral betterment; title: Philosophical sects of Buddhism; title: Social ideals of Buddhism; title: Practical Buddhist sects; title: The Christian appeal to Buddhism.