Researches Into Chinese Superstitions - Second Part; The Chinese Pantheon, Profusely Illustrated #268004

This seventh volume of the series may be divided into two parts 1° the first, continuing the Buddhist pant/leon, deals with some special Buddhas, Bodhisattvas', and Buddhist tutelary divinities' W'ei-t'o 54; lit»: the K'ia-lan {1m E'i' and the Four Maharajas or Heavenly Kings, Sze-ta-t'ien-wang [212] j; 36 I 2° the second describes with full details Buddhist Arhats or Lohans, especially the, famous Eighteen, so well known in Tibet and China; the 6 Chinese Buddhist Patriarchs, and some eminent monks, who spent their lives in the Great Monasteries that grew up beside the Sacred Mountains in Shantung, Honan, Hunan and Shensi.