^{page 162 note 1} Paris, 1911-13.

^{page 162 note 2} The periods are variously given, but according to all reckonings the sixth century A.D. comes well within the third period.

^{page 162 note 3} Arhat, Saint.

^{page 163 note 1} Owing to the theory that plants cannot feel and that life is consciousness, the vegetable world was specifically excluded.

^{page 165 note 1} It was considered an essential of alms-giving that it should be entirely impersonal, the donor neither disclosing his name nor having any control over the way in which his gifts were used.

^{page 165 note 2} Arhat, Saint.

^{page 165 note 3} Meditation was, however, theoretically discouraged by the sect.

⁴ The Chng Yan Lu.

^{page 166 note 1} One excellent practice of the sect deserves mention. In quoting they scrupulously distinguish between the text, the purport, or general sense of the text and human opinion, i.e. the commentaries.

^{page 167 note 1} It is, for example, unlikely that Buddhism derived the name from Manicheism.

^{page 168 note 1} The earliest Paradise scripture that survives in the Chinese Tripitaka is the Akshobhya Stra, translated in A.D. 147. Whether An Shih-kao's translation of the Amtbha Stra (attributed to the same time) ever existed is doubtful, in view of the extremely conflicting evidence about the extent of his activities.