CHAPTER

PAGE

I.

Mahāyāna

1

II.

The Stage on which S’akyamuni made his Appearance

5

III.

The Buddha and his Greatest Disciple

18

IV.

The Pre-Christian Expansion of Buddhism

28

V.

Pushyamitra

47

VI.

The New Testament in Touch with the East

51

VII.

Alexandria and Antioch at the Time of Christ

58

VIII.

The Legend of St. Thomas

71

IX.

The Call from China

76

X.

Buddhism just before the Coming of Christianity

85

XI.

As’vaghosha

96

XII.

Nāgārjuna

105

XIII.

The Missionaries of the Han

117

XIV.

Dharmagupta

131

XV.

Manichæism

145

XVI.

China in the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Centuries

152

XVII.

Buddhism Reaches Japan

168

XVIII.

The Crown Prince Shōtoku Taishi

178

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CHAPTER

PAGE

XIX.

Buddhism During the Nara Period (with Appendix)

191

XX.

Heian Buddhism

225

XXI.

Namudaishi

243

XXII.

The Buddhism of the Gempei Period

259

XXIII.

The Buddhism of Kamakura

275

XXIV.

Nichiren and the Earlier Sects

287

XXV.

Risshō Ankoku Ron

307

XXVI.

The Mongols

329

XXVII.

The Buddhism of the Muromachi Age

341

XXVIII.

The Period of the Catholic Missions

350

XXIX.

The Buddhism of the Tokugawa Period

367

XXX.

Recapitulation

381

Index

387