[Footnote 56:  The distinction between the Northern and Southern doctrine is indicated by the terms ‘Great Vehicle’ and ‘Little Vehicle’ respectively, the former the works of N[=a]g[=a]rjuna’s school (see below).]

     [Footnote 57:  As M[=a]itrakanyaka Buddha came once to earth
     “to redeem the sins of men.”]

[Footnote 58:  Of historic interest is the rapport between Brahmanic, Jain. and Buddhist tales.  A case of this sort has been carefully worked out by Leumann, Die Legende von Citta und Sambh[=u]ta, WZKM. v.  III; vi. 1.]

[Footnote 59:  “The gods who were worshipped as true divinities in India have been rendered false ... by my zeal”; inscription cited by Barth, p. 135.  But Acoka was a very tolerant prince.  Barth’s notion of Buddhistic persecution can hardly be correct.]

     [Footnote 60:  Koeppen, Die Religion des Buddha, p. 198.]

     [Footnote 61:  Not to be confused with the seventeen heresies
     and sixty-three different philosophical systems in the
     church itself.]

[Footnote 62:  For more details see Barth, loc. cit., p. 130 ff.  According to tradition Buddhism was introduced into Tibet in the fourth century, A.D., the first missionaries coming from Nep[=a]l (Rockhill, p. 210).]

[Footnote 63:  Barth justly discredits the tale of Buddhism having been persecuted out of India.  In this sketch of later Buddhism we can but follow this author’s admirable summary of the causes of Buddhistic decline, especially agreeing with him in assigning the first place to the torpidity of the later church in matters of religion.  It was become a great machine, its spiritual enthusiasm had been exhausted; it had nothing poetical or beautiful save the legend of Buddha, and this had lost its freshness; for Buddha was now, in fact, only a grinning idol.]

[Footnote 64:  Here are developed fully the stories of hells, angels, and all supernatural paraphernalia, together with theism, idolatry, and the completed monastic system; magic, fable, absurd calculations in regard to nothings, and spiritual emptiness.]

     [Footnote 65:  At the same time the Ceylon canon was fixed by
     the commentary of Buddhaghosha.]

[Footnote 66:  Later it follows the mystical school.  Both schools have been affected by Brahmanism.  The Great Vehicle, founded by N[=a]g[=a]rjuna, was recognized at a fourth council in Kashmeer about the time of the Christian era.  Compare Koeppen, p. 199.]

     [Footnote 67:  On the Lamaistic hierarchy and system of
     succession see Mayers, JRAS.  IV. 284.]

[Footnote 68:  For the same reason we do not enter upon the outer form of Buddhism as expressed in demonology, snake-worship (JRAS. xii. 286) and symbolism (ib.  OS. xiii. 71, 114).]

     [Footnote 69:  SBE. vol. x, part ii, p. 3.]