THE CHINESE LION 



Among the Assyrians the bull was the sign of the god borne 

 to battle in the same way as the standards of the Romans, 

 and, just as the Cross and the Crescent became the emblems 

 of warring religions in later days, so the lion appears to have 

 been adopted by the Buddhists, whose faith preaches peace 



BUDDHA'S CONVERSION OF BUFFALOES. FROM 

 DR. L. WIEGER'S " BUDDHISM " 



and humanity as their heraldic symbol. Buddhism has 

 never appealed to the grim arbitrament of war for the imposing 

 of its doctrines upon foreign nations, and it is therefore 

 natural that its symbols should have failed to assume the 

 accentuated and universally realized importance which, largely 

 on account of warlike operations, accrued to the similar 

 symbols of Christianity and Mohammedanism. 

 To the Western mind utilization of the King of Beasts to 



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