itivuttakam

Updated: August 13, 2026

Though this modern figure of Jizō is wrought with ancient materials, it is in the main a work of Japanese sentiment. See my chapters on Burma and Siam below. Mahayanist ideas may easily have entered these countries from China, but even in Ceylon the idea of becoming a Buddha or Bodhisattva is not unknown. Senart, vol. Itivuttakam 100.

Sir Charles Eliot - Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2