Note 63 — Exotics (continued 2)

There is a great variety of sîla;—five, eight, and ten for different classes of laity; two hundred and fifty for priests;—five hundred for nuns, etc., etc.—Be it here observed that the posthumous Buddhist name given to the dead must not be studied as referring always to conduct in this world, but rather as referring to sîla in another world. The kaimyō is thus a title of spiritual initiation.—Some Japanese Buddhist sects hold what are called Ju-Kai-E (“sîla-giving assemblies”), at which the initiated are given kaimyō of another sort,—sîla-names of admission as neophytes.