The Creed of Half Japan: Contents

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	Mahāyāna	1
II.	The Stage on which S’akyamuni made his Appearance	5
III.	The Buddha and his Greatest Disciple	18
IV.	The Pre-Christian Expansion of Buddhism	28
V.	Pushyamitra	47
VI.	The New Testament in Touch with the East	51
VII.	Alexandria and Antioch at the Time of Christ	58
VIII.	The Legend of St. Thomas	71
IX.	The Call from China	76
X.	Buddhism just before the Coming of Christianity	85
XI.	As’vaghosha	96
XII.	Nāgārjuna	105
XIII.	The Missionaries of the Han	117
XIV.	Dharmagupta	131
XV.	Manichæism	145
XVI.	China in the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Centuries	152
XVII.	Buddhism Reaches Japan	168
XVIII.	The Crown Prince Shōtoku Taishi	178

CHAPTER		PAGE
XIX.	Buddhism During the Nara Period (with Appendix)	191
XX.	Heian Buddhism	225
XXI.	Namudaishi	243
XXII.	The Buddhism of the Gempei Period	259
XXIII.	The Buddhism of Kamakura	275
XXIV.	Nichiren and the Earlier Sects	287
XXV.	Risshō Ankoku Ron	307
XXVI.	The Mongols	329
XXVII.	The Buddhism of the Muromachi Age	341
XXVIII.	The Period of the Catholic Missions	350
XXIX.	The Buddhism of the Tokugawa Period	367
XXX.	Recapitulation	381
	Index	387

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The ornament on the side of the cover is a facsimile of Shinran's handwriting, representing the character for Buddha.

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