Note (return) — Chapter VI · - THE BUDDHISM OF NORTHERN ASIA

Following this agnostic scheme of thought, came, several centuries later, the dualistic Yoga5 system in which the chief feature is the conception of Deity as a means of final emancipation of the human soul from further transmigration, and of union with the Universal Spirit or World Soul. There is, however, perhaps no sadder chapter in the history of human thought than the story of the later degeneration of the Yoga system into one of bloody and cruel rites in India, and of superstition in China.