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Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)

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Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.

Name: Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.
Author: Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)

Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)

Idols and images -- Worship; Mythology; Religions

Sketch of the history of Lamaism--Monks and
    monasteries--Temple at Teshu Lumbo monastery--Services at
    the H’Lassa cathedral--Praying-wheels--The mystic sentence
    of Thibet--The incarnation of Buddha in the Grand Lama--The
    Lamaist Bible,                                                  598


                            CHAPTER XXXIII.

                          CHINA--_continued_.

    Pagodas--Chinese Buddhist temples--The worship of
    Kwan-yin--The worship of Kum-Fa--Idols--The Temple of
    Horrors--Monasteries--A Monk’s Monument--Chinese Buddhist
    Bonzes--Buddhist devotees--Ceremony of the Water-lamps--The
    Do-nothing sect of Reformed Buddhists--Booldo, the Buddhism
    of the Corens,                                                  611


                            CHAPTER XXXIV.

                                JAPAN.

    Bodhidharma in Japan--The Sun-child and his miraculous
    deliverance--Further history of Japan--Buddhist sects in
    Japan--The Protestants of Buddhism--Kwanon’s Temple at
    Asakusa, Tokio--Temple of Shiba, in Tokio--Temple of five
    hundred gods--The casting of a Temple Bell--The Colossal
    Idol, the Kamakura Dai Butsu--Some Japanese gods--Japanese
    Festivals--Mount Fuji-Yama--Customs concerning birth,
    marriage and death--Some Japanese superstitions--Religion
    of the Ainos,                                                   656


                             CHAPTER XXXV.

                            MOHAMMEDANISM.

    Extent of Mohammedanism--The Arabian camel-driver who
    founded a great religion--The Prophet’s youth and early
    manhood--Gabriel’s message to Mohammed--The flight of
    Mohammed--Converts made at the sword’s point--Mohammed’s
    successors, the Caliphs--Caliph Omar--The Crusades--The
    writing of the Koran--The teaching of the Koran--Some
    selections from the Koran--Mohammed’s Paradise--The Koran
    on the judgment,                                                719


                            CHAPTER XXXVI.

                    MOHAMMEDAN MOSQUES AND WORSHIP.

    Worship in the Mosques--The dancing and howling
    Dervishes--The smart and smarting answer of a
    Dervish--Daily worship--The Mosque of St. Sophia--The
    Jummah Musjid at Delhi, India--The Taj Mahal, the “jewel of
    India”--Pilgrimages and festivals--Conclusion,                  741


                            CHAPTER XXXVII.

           WINNING THE WORLD TO THE WORSHIP OF THE ONE GOD.

    Comparison of heathen religions and Christianity--Why
    shall we give Christianity to the world--A flight over the
    battle-field--Position of the Christian army,                   767


    INDEX,                                                          779




                        LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.


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    Colored Map of World                             _Full Page_     32

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Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.

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