Japanese devotees sacrificing themselves in the sea before a statue of the god Amitabha. Worshippers tie weights to their limbs and dive into the ocean or sink their boats. Amida Butsu, Buddha Amida Nyorai, Omyto, and different ways of worshipping him. Autre representation d'Amida, et diverses manieres de se Noyer a son honneur. Copperplate engraving by David Herrliberguer after an illustration by Bernard Picard from Les Ceremonies Religieuses de Tous les Peuples du Monde, Religious Ceremonies of All the Peoples of the World, Chez David Herrliberguer, Zurich, 1750.

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