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Plays of Old Japan

Note 27 — THE MAIDEN’S TOMB

Marie Carmichael Stopes translation

Page 48—He is using the words of the Buddhist scriptures. Though in popular belief the hells and torments, as well as the world, exist, yet the higher philosophy of Buddhism holds that all is appearance only, and that the soul that realises this frees itself from the sufferings and restrictions of the grosser existence.

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