Buddhaghosha's parables, tr. by T. Rogers. With an intr., containing Buddha's Dhammapada, or 'Path of virtue', tr. by F.M. Müller |
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... India , for not only his name , but the circumstances of his life and his literary activity are described in the Mahâvansa , the history of Ceylon , by what may be called almost a contemporary witness . The Mahâ- vansa , lit. the ...
... India , for not only his name , but the circumstances of his life and his literary activity are described in the Mahâvansa , the history of Ceylon , by what may be called almost a contemporary witness . The Mahâ- vansa , lit. the ...
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... India . I have myself on a former occasion ' pointed out all the objections that can be raised against the authority of Buddhaghosha and Mahinda ; but I do not think that scholars calling these parables the parables of Ma- hinda , if ...
... India . I have myself on a former occasion ' pointed out all the objections that can be raised against the authority of Buddhaghosha and Mahinda ; but I do not think that scholars calling these parables the parables of Ma- hinda , if ...
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... Indian chronology has been discussed by me in my ' History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature , ' p . 262 seq . , 2nd ed . 2 Cf. Bigandet , 1. c . p . 387 . 3 Singhalese , being the language of the island , would naturally be adopted by ...
... Indian chronology has been discussed by me in my ' History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature , ' p . 262 seq . , 2nd ed . 2 Cf. Bigandet , 1. c . p . 387 . 3 Singhalese , being the language of the island , would naturally be adopted by ...
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... India Company by Lieutenant ( now Lieut.- Colonel ) Maisey , and from photographs by Lieutenant Water- house ; those of the Amravati tope are photographed from the sculptured slabs sent home by Colonel Mackenzie , formerly exhi- bited ...
... India Company by Lieutenant ( now Lieut.- Colonel ) Maisey , and from photographs by Lieutenant Water- house ; those of the Amravati tope are photographed from the sculptured slabs sent home by Colonel Mackenzie , formerly exhi- bited ...
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... Indian Con- stantine , had to remind the assembled priests at the great council which had to settle the Buddhist canon , that ' what had been said by Buddha , that alone was well said . " Works attributed to Buddha , but declared to be ...
... Indian Con- stantine , had to remind the assembled priests at the great council which had to settle the Buddhist canon , that ' what had been said by Buddha , that alone was well said . " Works attributed to Buddha , but declared to be ...
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Page lvi - All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage.
Page cxxxvii - Watching his speech, well restrained in mind, let a man never commit any wrong with his body! Let a man but keep these three roads of action clear, and he will achieve the way which is taught by the wise.
Page 2 - Bosanquet, Esq. — VIII. On the existing Dictionaries of the Malay Language. By Dr. HN van der Tuuk. — IX. Bilingual Readings : Cuneiform and Phoenician. Notes on some Tablets in the British Museum, containing Bilingual Legends (Assyrian and Phoenician).
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Page cxliii - He who says what is not, goes to hell ; he also who, having done a thing, says I have not done it. After death both are equal, they are men with evil deeds in the next world. 307. Many men whose shoulders are covered with the yellow gown are ill-conditioned and unrestrained; such evil-doers by their evil deeds go to hell.
Page 3 - TRAVELS OF FAH-HIAN AND SUNG-YUN, Buddhist Pilgrims, from China to India (400 AD and 518 AD ) Translated from the Chinese. By Samuel Beal, BA , Triu.
Page xcii - If a man commits a sin, let him not do it again; let him not delight in sin: pain is the outcome of evil. 118. If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it: happiness is the outcome of good.
Page xciii - Let no man think lightly of evil, saying in his heart, It will not come nigh unto me. Even by the falling of water-drops a water-pot is filled; the fool becomes full of evil, even if he gather it little by little. 122. Let no man think lightly of good, saying in his heart, It will not come nigh unto me.
Page clxiv - Brahmana worships the sacrificial fire. 393. A man does not become a Brahmana by his platted hair, by his family, or by birth; in whom there is truth and righteousness, he is blessed, he is a Brahmana.