VII. The Chinese: pagan religion; immortality and retribution; magnificent tombs (Linschoten)
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VII.THE CHINESE, whose religion — without the contagion of Mohammedanism — is merely pagan, all believe the immortality of the soul, and after this life a retribution of goods or evils according as each has done good or evil things, and on that account they set up for the dead sepulchral monuments magnificently carved.They believe there is an immortal life in the other world, as Hugo Linschoten witnesses, part 1, chapter 25.
Latin
VII. CHINENSES, quorum religio, sine Mahumedismi contagione, mere pagana, credunt omnes immortalitatem animae, atque post hanc vitam retributionem bonorum malorumve, prout quisque bona malave gesserit, & ob id monumenta sepulchralia magnifice excisa defunctis statuunt. Credunt in altero mundo vitam immortalem esse, teste Hugone Linscotano part. 1. cap. 25.