This Mahâyânism only acknowledged Buddha the redeemer of _this_ world, next to him were honoured the Buddhas of _three_ former worlds, and even a _fifth_ Buddha, the redeemer of a future world, which is to exist in the darkness of ages after the crack of this doom. These are the five _Dhyâni-Buddhas_: _Wairotyana_, _Akshobya_, _Ratnasambhava_, _Amitâbha_ and _Amoghasiddha_. And with the exception of these five Buddhas they also honoured the five _Dhyâni-Bodhisattvas_ or Buddha’s sons or Buddhas in a state of being, that is, in a state of self-exercise or self-denial which precedes the Buddhaship. They are in the same order of succession: _Samantabhadra_, _Wadyrapâni_, _Ratnapâni_, _Padmapâni_ and _Wishvapâni_. The southern church doesn’t know these Dhyâni-Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, so their images on the Båråbudur and on other tyanḍis in Java prove to us that the Buddhists of those temples belonged to the _northern_ church. Proofs of the existence of Hînayânism in Java, there were none as yet. But the Chinese Buddhist _J Tsing_, who visited India and the Dutch Indonésian countries in the seventh century of our era, wrote us that at that period of time Hînayânism must have ruled here in Java[4]. It goes without saying that even the Mahâyânists honoured, among others, the Buddha of _this their_ world, _Amitâbha_, as their Lord and Redeemer, putting faith in his life on earth as man and prince’s son, as ascetic and preacher, just as the Israelites do believe in the personage of their _Jahvé_, their Lord God of Hosts, their god of battle and revenge, and just like our German ancestors trusted in _Odhin_, and _Thor_, and in the dying sun-god _Baldur_. And when we wish to judge and understand the temples built by these Buddhists, we also ought to start from that point of view, and accept the hero of the legend as if he should have really lived, and suffered in order to redeem the world from the burden of the sin of life, and from the curse of death, and infinite regenerations. II. The Buddhists assert the ashes of their Buddha to have been divided after his cremation into eight towns, and buried there. King _Ashoka_ is said to have seven of these graves re-opened again so as to distribute the holy ashes among some 84000 metal, crystal or stone vases or urns to cause them to be spread throughout his empire and without, and kept under barrows or _stûpas_.