Buddha and Early BuddhismTrubner, 1881 - 256 pages |
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... death , is the cessation of individual consciousness . I know of only two exceptions to this rule . Colebrooke denies that the Buddhist word Nirvâna implies cessation of individuality.5 M. Foucaux also maintains that in the presence of ...
... death , is the cessation of individual consciousness . I know of only two exceptions to this rule . Colebrooke denies that the Buddhist word Nirvâna implies cessation of individuality.5 M. Foucaux also maintains that in the presence of ...
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... death . Makara ( the leviathan ) represents Capricorn in Buddhism . His head is either the head of an elephant , or an elephant is issuing from his mouth . In the centre of the zodiac is a naked man and woman , and sometimes a tree with ...
... death . Makara ( the leviathan ) represents Capricorn in Buddhism . His head is either the head of an elephant , or an elephant is issuing from his mouth . In the centre of the zodiac is a naked man and woman , and sometimes a tree with ...
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... death ) has puzzled scholars , but the Buddhist zodiac , I think , explains it . The sun emerging from Sagittarius , or the arrow of death , at the end of the old year , becomes once more the golden germ , the elephant . The " prop ...
... death ) has puzzled scholars , but the Buddhist zodiac , I think , explains it . The sun emerging from Sagittarius , or the arrow of death , at the end of the old year , becomes once more the golden germ , the elephant . The " prop ...
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... death ( Mâro ) . " 2 Plainly in his day they were dead saints . By substituting the modern rendering of the triad in the phrases of the Ceylon ritual its nonsense becomes more plain : - " " - May Congregation forgive me my sin ! " " I ...
... death ( Mâro ) . " 2 Plainly in his day they were dead saints . By substituting the modern rendering of the triad in the phrases of the Ceylon ritual its nonsense becomes more plain : - " " - May Congregation forgive me my sin ! " " I ...
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... death . This brings me to a very singular incident narrated in the " White Lotus of Dharma , " one of the oldest Buddhist books . One day when Sâkya Muni was preaching , a colossal stupa of the seven precious substances of dia- monds ...
... death . This brings me to a very singular incident narrated in the " White Lotus of Dharma , " one of the oldest Buddhist books . One day when Sâkya Muni was preaching , a colossal stupa of the seven precious substances of dia- monds ...
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