| PREFACE |
| CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY |
| CHAPTER II. THE ENTRANCE OF BUDDHISM INTO CHINA |
| CHAPTER III. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF BUDDHISM AS THE PREDOMINATING RELIGION OF CHINA |
| 1. The World of Invisible Spirits |
| 2. The Universal Sense of Ancestor Control |
| 3. Degenerate Taoism |
| 4. The Organizing Value of Confucianism |
| 5. Buddhism an Inclusive Religion |
| CHAPTER IV. BUDDHISM AND THE PEASANT |
| 1. The Monastery of Kushan |
| 2. Monasteries Control Fêng-shui |
| 3. Prayer for Rain |
| (a) The altar |
| (b) The prayer service |
| (c) Its Meaning |
| 4. Monasteries are Supported because They Control Fêng-shui |
| CHAPTER V. BUDDHISM AND THE FAMILY |
| 1. Kuan Yin, the Giver of Children and Protector of Women |
| 2. Kuan Yin, the Model of Local Mother-Goddesses |
| 3. Exhortations on Family Virtues |
| 4. Services for the Dead |
| CHAPTER VI. BUDDHISM AND SOCIAL LIFE |
| 1. How the Laity is Trained in Buddhist Ideas |
| 2. Effect of Ideals of Mercy and Universal Love |
| 3. Relation to Confucian Ideal |
| 4. The Embodiment of Buddhist Ideals in the Vegetarian Sects |
| 5. Pilgrimages |
| CHAPTER VII. BUDDHISM AND THE FUTURE LIFE |
| 1. The Buddhist Purgatory |
| 2. Its Social Value |
| 3. The Buddhist Heaven |
| 4. The Harmonization of These Ideas with Ancestor Worship |
| CHAPTER VIII. THE SPIRITUAL VALUES EMPHASIZED BY BUDDHISM IN CHINA |
| 1. The Threefold Classification of Men under Buddhism |
| 2. Salvation for the Common Man |
| 3. The Place of Faith |
| 4. Salvation of the Second Class |
| 5. Salvation for the Highest Class |
| 6. Heaven and Purgatory |
| 7. Sin |
| 8. Nirvana |
| 9. The Philosophical Background |
| 10. What Buddhism Has to Give |
| CHAPTER IX. PRESENT-DAY BUDDHISM |
| 1. Periods of Buddhist History |
| 2. The Progress of the Last Twenty-five Years |
| 3. Present Activities |
| (a) The reconstruction of monasteries |
| (b) Accessions |
| (c) Publications |
| (d) Lectures |
| (e) Buddhist societies |
| (f) Signs of social ambition |
| 4. The Attitude of Tibetan Lamas |
| 5. The Buddhist World Versus the Christian World |
| CHAPTER X. THE CHRISTIAN APPROACH TO BUDDHISTS |
| 1. Questions which Buddhists Ask |
| 2. Knowledge and Sympathy |
| 3. Emphasis on the Æsthetic in Christianity |
| 4. Emphasis on the Mystical in Christianity |
| 5. Emphasis on the Social Elements in Christianity |
| 6. Emphasis on the Person of Jesus Christ |
| (a) As a Historical Character |
| (b) As the Revealer |
| (c) As the Saviour |
| (d) As the Eternal Son of God |
| 7. How Christianity Expresses Itself in Buddhist Minds |
| 8. Christianity’s Constructive Values |
| APPENDIX ONE, Hints for the Preliminary Study of Buddhism in China |
| APPENDIX TWO, A Brief Bibliography |