 | 1877 - 1212 pages
...orthodox Buddhism for any person not a Buddha to understand it, I shall not hope to make it intelligible. When a sentient being (man, angel, or animal) dies,...material state of existence, according to the Karma, the Desert — merit or demerit — of the being who has died. The cause which produces the new being is... | |
 | John Henry Gray - 1878 - 536 pages
...puts it in a very interesting article which appeared in the Cuntemporary Rrritw for January 1S77 : — "When a sentient being (man, angel, or animal) dies,...successive lives. In that sinful condition which he termed TrisJina, thirst, or Upadaua, grasping, life must, he taught, go on reproducing itself in numberless... | |
 | Thomas William Rhys Davids - 1887 - 270 pages
...This is the doctrine that, as soon as a sentient being (man, animal, or angel) dies, a new being is produced in a more or less painful and material state of existence, according to the ' karma,' the desert or merit, of the being who had died. The cause which produces the new being is ' trishna,' thirst,... | |
 | Henry Addison Nelson, Albert B. Robinson - 1888 - 660 pages
...the mystery of karma. This is as follows : " That as soon as a sentient being dies, a new being is produced in a more or less painful and material state of existence, according to the karma, the desert or merit of the being who dies." This new being is not a new soul, but a new set of skandhas,... | |
 | Charles Turner Gorham - 1904 - 102 pages
...this is the doctrine, that as soon as a sentient being (man, animal, or angel) dies a new being is produced in a more or less painful and material state of existence, according to the ' karma,' the desert or merit, of the being who had died."1 " Buddhism is convinced that if a man reaps sorrow, disappointment,... | |
 | Horace Grant Underwood - 1910 - 292 pages
...This is the doctrine that as soon as a sentient being (man, animal, or angel) dies, a new being is produced in a more or less painful and material state of existence, according to the 'karma,' the desert or merit, of the being who had died. " — Rhys Davids, "Buddhism," p. 100. simply absorption... | |
 | Joseph Needham, Ling Wang - 1956 - 746 pages
...yuan 2) which stated that ' as soon as a sentient being (man, animal, or god) dies, a new being is produced in a more or less painful and material state of existence, according to the karma, the desert or merit, of the being who has died. . . . The karma of the previous set of skandhas, or sentient... | |
 | Eugène Burnouf - 2002 - 136 pages
...ordinary man feels, his good or evil karma (literally his ' doing ') does not die : a new being is produced in a more or less painful and material state of existence, according to the desert or merit of the being who had died." ' Three legends in this volume forcibly illustrate the... | |
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... dies, a new being is produced in a more or less painful and material state of existence, according to the karma, the desert or merit, of the being who had died. 