CHAPTER XXIV. CONFUCIAN TEMPLES AND WORSHIP. The worship of Shang-te, at Peking--Temple of Confucius--Examinations in the sacred books--Anecdotes of students--How Mencius’s mother incited her son to study--How a tired student was led back to his studies--The little sage who hid fire to light his lamp--An example of a studious ancestor--The student with a round stick for a pillow, 460 CHAPTER XXV. HOME-LIFE UNDER CONFUCIANISM. Ceremony of turning the bridge-ladder--Worship of ancestors at a wedding--Mother, Goddess of Children--Teaching a child to worship idols--The story of Ma-chu, Goddess of the Sailors, 478 CHAPTER XXVI. BUDDHA, THE “LIGHT OF ASIA.” The story of Gautama, the founder of Buddhism--Gautama’s four visions--The great renunciation--Gautama becomes an ascetic--The “Light of Asia” and the “Light of the World,” 498 CHAPTER XXVII. THE BUDDHIST BIBLE, THE “THREE BASKETS,” AND ITS TEACHINGS. The Buddhist way of salvation--What is Nirvana?--Buddhist morals--Some of the “footsteps of the law”--Buddhist beatitudes, 513 CHAPTER XXVIII. THE GROWTH OF BUDDHISM--THE BUDDHIST ORDER OF MENDICANTS. The Sangha, or Buddhist Brotherhood--The initiation ceremony--Rules of the Order--Daily life of a monk--The three great Buddhist councils--Buddhaghosha, the famous monk and missionary--The story of King Kakavanna--Buddhist courtesies of the present day, 522 CHAPTER XXIX. INDIA AND CEYLON. The famous Topes--The great Sanchi Tope--Ceylonese Buddhism--The sacred Bo-tree of Ceylon--Reducing the Tripitaka to writing--Buddhaghosha in Ceylon--A Buddhist temple in Ceylon--The sacred Ceylonese books, 532 CHAPTER XXX. BURMAH. The Shway-da-gong pagoda--The story of Shway-da-gong--Other pagodas--Worship of nats--A nat story--Superstitions of the Burmese--The funeral of a pongyee or monk, 555 CHAPTER XXXI. SIAM. The celebrated Wat Chang pagoda--Temple of the Emerald Idol--Worship of the white elephant--Ruins of the great temple of Nagkon Wat--Some other temples, 575 CHAPTER XXXII. THIBET.