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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ...and wild pathway, which brought us to the monastery Kwotsing-sze. 'We found this to be one of the largest about these hills, and the priests both numerous and respectable. The Superior was a middle-aged man of considerable energy, and surrounded by a number of persons well acquainted with the system of Buddha. The argument maintained here was that all systems were alike and all led to the same result.2 One of the priests, in the evening, maintained a very lively and interesting conversation regarding the peculiarities of Buddhism. He spoke of attaining the state of Nirvana, in which a man would have no more to do with the past or the present, with happiness or misery, with production or annihilation. He was asked if men had anything to do now with production and annihilation? To which he replied in the aifirmative, adding that at birth our lives are produced, and at death annihilated; so with all the works of art, when we make them they are produced; when we destroy them they are annihilated. We suggested to him that in the production of things we do not create them out of nothing, nor at their destruction can we reduce them ' Max Miiller's version, Buddlzagkoshds Parables, CLX. This is the middle method, advocated in the Shaster alluded to above. to nothing. This was a new idea to him; but he contended that when a candle is burnt out it is annihilated, and when any material substance is reduced to atoms it ceases to be. As he still continued to maintain his position, he was asked how many elements there are? to which he answered four, viz., fire, air, earth, and water. He was then asked whether, if a portion of the earth were burnt, it must necessarily be annihilated, and whether it might not still...

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