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Sacred Animals at Buddhist Temples

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 8, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 2.

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Sacred Animals at Buddhist Temples

Connected with many of the Buddhist temples in China and Japan are a number of domestic animals, birds, or fishes which are treated as if they were sacred, being tended by the priests with the greatest care, and given burial like that of human beings when they die. The priests teach the people that it is a highly meritorious act for them to buy food from them with which to feed the animals, and few visit the temples without doing this. It is one great source of the income of the priests.—Sel.