Chapter Xiii. The Missionaries Of The Han : * "The Creed of Half Japan", by Arthur Lloyd, [1911], p. 117 CHAPTER XIII The Missionaries of the Han If we could construct a comparative Chronological Table of the religious phenomena of Europe and Asia during the first two centuries, we should see that the next Buddhist mission (A.D. 147)...
Chapter I. Mahayana : * "The Creed of Half Japan", by Arthur Lloyd, [1911], p. 1 THE CREED OF HALF JAPAN CHAPTER I Mahyna The Mahyna is a form of Buddhism. The word means "the Large Vehicle" or "Conveyance," and is used to distinguish the later and amplified Buddhism from the Hnayna or Small Vehicle, which contains...
Chapter Xxvi. The Mongols : * "The Creed of Half Japan", by Arthur Lloyd, [1911], p. 329 CHAPTER XXVI The Mongols In the year 1282, Nichiren, reviewing his own life, said that there were three things for which he considered himself deserving of commendation. 1 He had published his treatise of "Rissh Ankoku," and presented...
Chapter Xxii. The Buddhism Of The Gempei Period : * "The Creed of Half Japan", by Arthur Lloyd, [1911], p. 259 CHAPTER XXII The Buddhism of the Gempei Period 1 It is very difficult to describe in a short paragraph, or even in one long chapter, the complicated period of Japanese history which has for its central point of interest the fierce wars...
Chapter V. Pusityamitra : * "The Creed of Half Japan", by Arthur Lloyd, [1911], p. 47 CHAPTER V Pusityamitra Pusityamitra was an important factor in the development of the Mahyna, whose claims to distinction have generally been overlooked. As'oka, it is evident, ruled over a very extensive kingdom, and was one of the gre...
Chapter Xx. Heian Buddhism : * "The Creed of Half Japan", by Arthur Lloyd, [1911], p. 225 CHAPTER XX Heian Buddhism 1 It was in the year A.D. 767, in the first year of the period known to the Japanese as "Jingo Keiun", that a child was born in a village in mi, not far from the shores of Lake Biwa, who was destined to exercise...
Chapter Xxiv. Nichiren And The Earlier Sects : * "The Creed of Half Japan", by Arthur Lloyd, [1911], p. 287 CHAPTER XXIV Nichiren and the Earlier Sects In the year 1257 Japan was visited by a very terrible earthquake. After the earthquake, in 1258, came a destructive hurricane which overthrew much that the earthquake had left standing. In 1259...
Chapter Ii. The Stage On Which S'akyamuni : * "The Creed of Half Japan", by Arthur Lloyd, [1911], p. 5 CHAPTER II The Stage on which S'akyamuni made his Appearance The Stras which are commonly received as giving an authentic account of the teachings of the S'akyamuni, 1 will also furnish us with certain geographical and other data which are...
Chapter Iii. The Buddha And His Greatest Disciple : * "The Creed of Half Japan", by Arthur Lloyd, [1911], p. 18 CHAPTER III The Buddha and his Greatest Disciple Thanks to the labours of many students of the Buddhist books, both Pali and Sanskrit, we are able to form a vivid mind's eye picture of the ministerial life of the Founder of Buddhism;...
Chapter Xxx. Recapitulation : * "The Creed of Half Japan", by Arthur Lloyd, [1911], p. 381 CHAPTER XXX. Recapitulation It shall be my pleasant task in this concluding chapter to recapitulate for my reader all that I have put before him in a long and rather prolix narration. I would, first, call attention to the remarkable...
Chapter Xxiii. The Buddhism Of Kamakura : * "The Creed of Half Japan", by Arthur Lloyd, [1911], p. 275 CHAPTER XXIII The Buddhism of Kamakura Kamakura is connected with Yoritomo and the Regents of the Hj family. Yoritomo, the first of the Minamoto Shguns (1147-1199), was the son of that Yoshitomo who, after leaguing himself with the Tair...
Preface : * "The Creed of Half Japan", by Arthur Lloyd, [1911], p. vii PREFACE I can only plead for my book that it is the work of a pioneer, and every pioneer knows that his labours must necessarily be crude and imperfect. I foresee all the strictures that criticism will pass upon my labours, and shall be...
Chapter Xv. Manichaeism : * "The Creed of Half Japan", by Arthur Lloyd, [1911], p. 145 CHAPTER XV Manichism When we reach this point in our history of the Mahyna, it behoves us to turn a glance to that great religious movement which began in the middle of the third century. Mani, or Manichus, 1 to give him the name by...
Chapter Xi. As'vaghosha : * "The Creed of Half Japan", by Arthur Lloyd, [1911], p. 96 CHAPTER XI As'vaghosha Everybody in Japan reckons As'vaghosha as the founder of the Mahyna Faith, and yet there is not a single Mahyna sect in Japan which traces its official lineage back to him. They all go back to Ngrjuna, who is made...
Chapter Iv. The New Testament In Touch With : * "The Creed of Half Japan", by Arthur Lloyd, [1911], p. 51 CHAPTER VI The New Testament in Touch with the East There are a few passages in the New Testament which seem to bear on the subject we have in hand. I propose to touch upon them in this chapter. The visit of the Magi will at once occur...
Untitled : * This is a scholarly study of the evolution of Mahayana Buddhism in Japan. Lloyd was particularly interested in how Eastern religions interacted with those in the west. A Christian clergyman and long-time resident in Japan at the turn of the 20th century, Arthur Lloyd felt that Buddhism has much...
Chapter Ix. The Call From China : * "The Creed of Half Japan", by Arthur Lloyd, [1911], p. 76 CHAPTER IX The Call from China We will assume, then, that Christian preachers visited India somewhere about A.D. 45, and that the story of St. Thomas having been martyred near Mathura, on the Jumna, in Central India, or at Mailapr...
Chapter Vii. Alexandria And Antioch : * "The Creed of Half Japan", by Arthur Lloyd, [1911], p. 58 CHAPTER VII Alexandria and Antioch at the Time of Christ There are two words which connect the Japanese Mahyna, in one of its many aspects, with the Gnosticism of Alexandria and Antioch, and through it with the Christianity...
Chapter Viii. The Legend Of St. Thomas : * "The Creed of Half Japan", by Arthur Lloyd, [1911], p. 71 CHAPTER VIII The Legend of St. Thomas The last chapter will, it is hoped, have prepared the mind of the reader for accepting the idea that the beginnings of Christianity and of the Mahyna were nearly related in time, in place, and in ide...
Chapter X. Buddhism Just Before The Coming : * "The Creed of Half Japan", by Arthur Lloyd, [1911], p. 85 CHAPTER X Buddhism just before the Coming of Christianity It is my intention in this chapter to estimate as far as I can the condition of Buddhism just before the coming of Christianity to India, and consequently just before the first...
Chapter Xxviii. The Period Of The Catholic : * "The Creed of Half Japan", by Arthur Lloyd, [1911], p. 350 CHAPTER XXVIII The Period of the Catholic Missions Had St. Francis Xavier and his associates been acquainted with Nichiren's apocalyptic interpretation of the Hokeky, it is possible that they might have been tempted to apply...
Chapter Xix. Buddhism During The Nara Period : * "The Creed of Half Japan", by Arthur Lloyd, [1911], p. 191 CHAPTER XIX Buddhism during the Nara Period 1 from A.D. 621-782 The activities of Kumarajva seem to have led to the dismemberment of the Mahyna, which, in spite of the variety of doctrines it contained within its ample folds, had...
Chapter Xxv. rissho Ankoku Ron : * "The Creed of Half Japan", by Arthur Lloyd, [1911], p. 307 CHAPTER XXV "Rissh Ankoku Ron" The "Rissh Ankoku ron" is the title of Nichiren's essay which, being presented to the Kamakura Regent, brought down upon its author all manner of persecutions and troubles. It was Nichiren's warning against...
Chapter Xvii. Buddhism Reaches Japan : * "The Creed of Half Japan", by Arthur Lloyd, [1911], p. 168 CHAPTER XVII Buddhism reaches Japan Buddhism reached Japan from Korea, and not at first from China. Korea, in the age which we have been considering, was not as large a country as it is now. The whole of the district, from the Yalu river...
Chapter Xxvii. The Buddhism Of The Muromachi Age : * "The Creed of Half Japan", by Arthur Lloyd, [1911], p. 341 CHAPTER XXVII The Buddhism of the Muromachi Age The Hj Regents fell in the year 1333. Their fall was due to many causes, and had been in preparation for some time. The immediate and ultimate cause was the conjunction of a real...
Chapter Xvi. China In The Third, Fourth : * "The Creed of Half Japan", by Arthur Lloyd, [1911], p. 152 CHAPTER XVI China in the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Centuries It is very difficult for the mind to frame for itself a distinct picture of China from the middle of the third century A.D. to that of the sixth. The three kingdoms of the Wei...
Chapter Xxix. The Buddhism Of The Tokugawa Period : * "The Creed of Half Japan", by Arthur Lloyd, [1911], p. 367 CHAPTER XXIX The Buddhism of the Tokugawa Period After Ieyasu's victory at Sekigahara (October 21, 1600) over Ishida Kazushige and the daimyos who supported the claims of the family of Hideyoshi, Japan became, for the first time for many...
Title Page : * "The Creed of Half Japan", by Arthur Lloyd, [1911], THE CREED OF HALF JAPAN HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF JAPANESE BUDDHISM BY ARTHUR LLOYD, M.A. LECTURER IN THE IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY, NAVAL ACADEMY, NAVAL MEDICAL COLLEGE, AND HIGHER COMMERCIAL SCHOOL, TOKYO; SOMETIME FELLOW OF PETERHOUSE, CAMBRIDGE...
Chapter Xiv. Dharmagupta : * "The Creed of Half Japan", by Arthur Lloyd, [1911], p. 131 CHAPTER XIV Dharmagupta 1 One of the most important services that S'akyamuni rendered to his immediate disciples, as well as to posterity, was to supply them with a set of disciplinary rules of life. This discipline, known...
Chapter Xviii. The Crown Prince Shotoku Taishi : * "The Creed of Half Japan", by Arthur Lloyd, [1911], p. 178 CHAPTER XVIII The Crown Prince Shtoku Taishi The Emperor Kimmei, who had received from Korea the gifts of Buddhist images and sacred vessels which had caused so much disturbance among his subjects, died in A.D. 570. His reign had not...
Chapter Iv. The Pre Christian Expansi : * "The Creed of Half Japan", by Arthur Lloyd, [1911], p. 28 CHAPTER IV The Pre-Christian Expansion of Buddhism The great As'oka, king of Maghada, the Constantine of Indian and Ceylonese Buddhism, has no official place, as I have said, in the history of the Mahyna, which takes absolutely no notice...
Chapter Xii. Nagarjuna : * "The Creed of Half Japan", by Arthur Lloyd, [1911], p. 105 CHAPTER XII Ngrjuna We may consider that As'vaghosha, a native apparently of Saketa, and for many years a resident of Pataliputra or Benares (probably the latter), brought into the newly formed, or reformed, Mahyna a certain Magadh...
Chapter Xxi. namudaishi : * "The Creed of Half Japan", by Arthur Lloyd, [1911], p. 243 CHAPTER XXI "Namudaishi" The title of this chapter is the title of a Japanese poem on the Life of the great Kb Daishi: "Glory to the Great Teacher." Kb Daishi's life, as it has lived in the religious traditions of Japan, is full...
