| Thomas Watters - 1905 - 374 pages
...distressed in mind, he prayed earnestly before an image of Buddha. In answer to his prayer a god bore him away to a mountain monastery some hundreds of li from...Asoka tope above 100 feet high where the Buddha had onse defeated Tirthikas by preaching, and had received many into his communion. Near it were traces... | |
| Lal Mani Joshi - 1977 - 536 pages
...produced an eminent scholar Dharmapâla who was the son of a city official. Near the capital was another large monastery which was a rendezvous for the most eminent men of the land.175 In the far south, Malaküta (Travancore-Cochin) had few Buddhist monasteries in the state... | |
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