NO. 4 RELIGION IN SZECHUAN PROVINCE — GRAHAM 8l 



found both in the Buddhist and in the Taoist temples. There has 

 been a great deal of mutual borrowing. Even the Pearly Emperor is 

 found in the Buddhist temples, and in Taoist temples can be fotmd 

 pictures or images representing the transmigration of souls, a con- 

 ception which the Buddhists brought with them from India, and 

 scenes representing the judgments and punishments of hades, which 

 were originally Buddhist. 



Religion in Szechuan is exceedingly practical. Every phase of it, 

 every rite and ceremony, every god or temple, has to do with the satis- 

 fymg of some human need that is felt to be important. They are the 

 techniques that have been worked out and used during the past 

 centuries by the masses of untutored people as a means of securing 

 satisfaction of the primary needs of man — food, sex, protection from 

 enemies, from the forces of nature, and from disease, and play. To 

 these people in their environment, such techniques have seemed and 

 still seem most natural and reasonable. They are facing many diffi- 

 culties and perplexities, but they are as capable as any other race of 

 people on earth, and the writer ventures to hope and to believe that 

 in the centuries to come they will make educational, social, moral, 

 and religious contributions that will enrich the civilization of the 

 whole world. 



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