SYMBOLISM BUDDHIST AND LAMAIST LION 



This is therefore a Buddhist realization of the pious 

 thought contained in the Hebrew prophecy of the time when 

 " the leopard shall lie down with the kid ; and the calf and 



WBNSHU (MANJUSRI) BUDDHA RIDING UPON A LION, PU-HSIEN UPON AN ELEPHANT, AND 

 KUAN-YIN MOUNTING A HOU (FUNG SHEN PANG) 



the young lion and the fatling together," " and the lion shall 

 eat straw like the ox." * 



The attributes of the two lions before Buddhist temples 

 are celebrated at religious " Lion-masques " held from time 

 to time all over China, Tibet, and in Japan, where, as 

 remarked by Captain Brinkley, the so-called Dog or Lion of 

 Fo (Shishi no Kachira) is carried in the Sano procession in 

 Tokyo. In China a pair of lion-head cardboard masks with 

 cloth bodies, counterfeiting the temple guardians, are carried 

 in procession from certain temples. Sometimes they are made 

 to halt at the temple door and playfully bar ingress to 



* Is. xi. 6-7. 



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