Sacred Books of the Buddhists, Volume 3H. Frowde, Oxford University Press Warehouse, Amen Corner, E.C., 1910 |
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... venerable Ânanda came to where the Exalted One was , bowed in salutation before him , and took a seat on one side . And so seated he said to the Exalted One : - Wonderful , lord , and marvellous it is , that whereas this doctrine of ...
... venerable Ânanda came to where the Exalted One was , bowed in salutation before him , and took a seat on one side . And so seated he said to the Exalted One : - Wonderful , lord , and marvellous it is , that whereas this doctrine of ...
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... Venerable Ananda delighted in his words . Here endeth the MAHA - NIDANA - SUTTANTA . We flue ulte felidem Ubhato - bhâga - vimutto , i.e. freed both by Reason and also by the intellectual discipline of the Eight Stages . According to a ...
... Venerable Ananda delighted in his words . Here endeth the MAHA - NIDANA - SUTTANTA . We flue ulte felidem Ubhato - bhâga - vimutto , i.e. freed both by Reason and also by the intellectual discipline of the Eight Stages . According to a ...
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... venerable Maha Kassapa was journeying along the high road from Pâvâ to Kusinârâ with a great company of the brethren , with about five hundred of the brethren . And VINAYA . Now the venerable Mahâ Kas- sapa addressed the Bhikkhus and ...
... venerable Maha Kassapa was journeying along the high road from Pâvâ to Kusinârâ with a great company of the brethren , with about five hundred of the brethren . And VINAYA . Now the venerable Mahâ Kas- sapa addressed the Bhikkhus and ...
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the venerable Mahâ Kassapa left the high road , and sat himself down at the foot of a certain tree . Just at that time a certain ascetic who had picked up a Mandârava flower in Kusinârâ was coming along the high road to Pâvâ . Now the ...
the venerable Mahâ Kassapa left the high road , and sat himself down at the foot of a certain tree . Just at that time a certain ascetic who had picked up a Mandârava flower in Kusinârâ was coming along the high road to Pâvâ . Now the ...
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... venerable Mahâ Kas- sapa exhorted the brethren : ' Enough , my brethren ! Weep not , neither lament ! Has not the Exalted One formerly declared this , that it is in the very nature of all things near and dear unto us that we must divide ...
... venerable Mahâ Kas- sapa exhorted the brethren : ' Enough , my brethren ! Weep not , neither lament ! Has not the Exalted One formerly declared this , that it is in the very nature of all things near and dear unto us that we must divide ...
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addressed the venerable aeon Arahant Arahantship Aryan Aryan Truth assent Bandhuman become beryl bhikkhus birth body Brahmâ brahmin brethren brother Buddha Supreme Buddhaghosa Buddhist cairn Cast away desire cause ceases charioteer conscious craving death Dhamma Dîgha disciples doctrine Dukkha earnest contemplation eighty thousand Exalted One addressed feeling Five Hindrances Five-crest four and eighty fruit gold Gotama grasping happiness heard heaven High Steward honour Iddhi ideas Indra Intoxication Jâtaka keeps on considering kind King of Glory Kshatriya Licchavis lord Mallas Mallas of Kusinârâ Master Kassapa mind Nâdika name-and-form Nikâyas Nirvana nobles Pâli passing Pâyâsi pleasant Prince Pukkusa râja Râjagaha rebirth reborn result of deeds robe ruler of gods Sakka Sâla Samyutta seated sense seven soul story Subhadda Suttanta Suttas Tathagata Thine things Thirty-Three Gods thou thought Three-and-Thirty gods Vajjians venerable Ânanda verily verses Vesâlî Vinaya Vipassi wondrous word Yakkhas
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Page 256 - And he lets his mind pervade one quarter of the world with thoughts of pity, sympathy, and equanimity, and so the second, and so the third, and so the fourth. And thus the whole wide world, above, below, around, and everywhere, does he continue to pervade with heart of pity, sympathy, and equanimity, far-reaching, grown great, and beyond measure.
Page 105 - I made known to you, which, when you have mastered it behoves you to practise, meditate upon, and spread abroad, in order that pure religion may last long and be perpetuated, in order that it may continue to be for the good and the happiness of the great multitudes, out of pity for the world, to the good and the gain and the weal of gods and men ? ' They are these : The four earnest meditations.
Page 90 - Ananda, be ye lamps unto yourselves. Be ye a refuge to yourselves. Betake yourselves to no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast as a refuge to the truth. Look not for refuge to any one besides yourselves...
Page 82 - Hell is destroyed for me, and rebirth as an animal, or a ghost, or in any place of woe. I am converted ; I am no longer liable to be reborn in a state of suffering, and am assured of final salvation.
Page 73 - Fivefold, O householders, is the gain of the well-doer through his practice of rectitude. In the first place the well-doer. strong in rectitude, acquires great wealth through his industry; in the next place, good reports of him are spread abroad ; thirdly, whatever society he enters — whether of nobles...
Page 68 - ... so long as the brethren so train their minds in self-possession that good men among their fellow-disciples shall come to them, and those who have come shall dwell at ease — so long may the brethren be expected, not to decline, but to prosper.
Page 66 - ... so long as they honour and esteem and revere and support the Vajjian shrines in town or country, and allow not the proper offerings and rites as formerly given and performed to fall into desuetude...
Page 60 - Too soon has the Light gone out in the world ! " But those of the brethren who were free from the passions (the Arahats) bore their grief collected and composed at the thought : " Impermanent are all component things ! How is it possible that [they should not be dissolved] ? " Then the venerable Anuruddha exhorted the brethren, and said: "Enough, my brethren!
Page 182 - This Kusinara, Ananda, was the royal city of King Maha-Sudassana, under the name of Kusavati, and on the east and on the west it was twelve leagues in length, and on the north and on the south it was seven leagues in breadth.
Page 90 - And whosoever, Ananda, either now or after I am dead, shall be a lamp unto themselves, and a refuge unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but- holding fast to the truth as their lamp, and holding fast as their refuge to the truth, shall look not for refuge to any one besides themselves — it is they, Ananda, among my bhikkhus, who shall reach the very topmost Height! — but they must be anxious to learn.