tchakra

Updated: July 2, 2026

*"The Buddhist baptism consists in washing the top of the head with perfumed water. The baptismal flags were so called because they had the same efficiency, raising those who passed under them, first, to the rank of Tchakra Radja, and, ultimately, to that of a Buddha." Two plenipotentiaries were therefore sent from Japan. Their mission proved very simple.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era