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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Page xxvi
... preaches a law designed to procure to man the deliverance from all the miseries he is labouring under . By an inex- plicable and deplorable eccentricity , the pretended sa- viour , after having taught man the way to deliver him- self ...
... preaches a law designed to procure to man the deliverance from all the miseries he is labouring under . By an inex- plicable and deplorable eccentricity , the pretended sa- viour , after having taught man the way to deliver him- self ...
Page lxxx
... preached by the elect . 80 . Well - makers lead the water ( wherever they like ) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves . 81 . As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind , wise people ...
... preached by the elect . 80 . Well - makers lead the water ( wherever they like ) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves . 81 . As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind , wise people ...
Page lxxxi
... preached to them , follow the Law , will pass across the domi- nion of death , however difficult to overcome . that B. means the word ' vigahanti ' to be a synonym of ' vaganti . ' I would rather take the whole sentence together as a ...
... preached to them , follow the Law , will pass across the domi- nion of death , however difficult to overcome . that B. means the word ' vigahanti ' to be a synonym of ' vaganti . ' I would rather take the whole sentence together as a ...
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... ' sokasalya , ' the arrows of grief . Buddha himself is called ' mahâsalya - hartâ , ' the great remover of thorns . ( Lalita - vistara , p . 550 ; Mahâbh . xii . 5616. ) The way was preached by me , when I had CXXXV CHAPTER XX. ...
... ' sokasalya , ' the arrows of grief . Buddha himself is called ' mahâsalya - hartâ , ' the great remover of thorns . ( Lalita - vistara , p . 550 ; Mahâbh . xii . 5616. ) The way was preached by me , when I had CXXXV CHAPTER XX. ...
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Buddhaghosa (theologian.) The way was preached by me , when I had understood the removal of the thorns ( in the flesh ) . 276 . You yourself must make an effort . The Tathagatas ( Buddhas ) are only preachers . The thoughtful who enter ...
Buddhaghosa (theologian.) The way was preached by me , when I had understood the removal of the thorns ( in the flesh ) . 276 . You yourself must make an effort . The Tathagatas ( Buddhas ) are only preachers . The thoughtful who enter ...
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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).
Page 16 - Lesley. — MAN'S ORIGIN AND DESTINY, Sketched from the Platform of the Sciences, in a Course of Lectures delivered before the Lowell Institute, in Boston, in the Winter of 1865-6. By JP LESLEY, Member of the National Academy of the United States, Secretary of the American Philosophical Society. Numerous Woodcuts. Crown 8vo.
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.