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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Buddhaghosa (theologian.) CHAPTER VII . STORY OF THE PROBATIONER TISSA . ON another occasion Para Taken , while residing in the Getavana monastery , preached a discourse with refer- ence to the probationer Tissa . In the country of ...
Buddhaghosa (theologian.) CHAPTER VII . STORY OF THE PROBATIONER TISSA . ON another occasion Para Taken , while residing in the Getavana monastery , preached a discourse with refer- ence to the probationer Tissa . In the country of ...
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... and his priests with cow's milk , and dressing the girl in a thingan , placed her after all the priests , and gave 1 Priest's garment . 1 her her share of the offering of milk in a STORY OF THE PROBATIONER TISSA . 73.
... and his priests with cow's milk , and dressing the girl in a thingan , placed her after all the priests , and gave 1 Priest's garment . 1 her her share of the offering of milk in a STORY OF THE PROBATIONER TISSA . 73.
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... probationer was always called Pindapātika2 Tissa . One night , when it was very cold , the probationer , going to the monastery to perform his duties , saw the Rahans warming themselves at a fire . " My masters , " said he , " why do ...
... probationer was always called Pindapātika2 Tissa . One night , when it was very cold , the probationer , going to the monastery to perform his duties , saw the Rahans warming themselves at a fire . " My masters , " said he , " why do ...
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... probationer coming with 500 coverlets ; hide yours , master . " The Thuthe said , " Does the probationer take them when they are given to him , or does he take them without their being given to him ? " - " He takes them when they are ...
... probationer coming with 500 coverlets ; hide yours , master . " The Thuthe said , " Does the probationer take them when they are given to him , or does he take them without their being given to him ? " - " He takes them when they are ...
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... probationer , after learning the Kammatthāna from Parā Taken , went away and resided in a tem- porary monastery at a ... PROBATIONER TISSA . CHAPTER VIII . STORY OF MAHAKAPPINA - THERA . " STORY OF THE PROBATIONER TISSA . 77.
... probationer , after learning the Kammatthāna from Parā Taken , went away and resided in a tem- porary monastery at a ... PROBATIONER TISSA . CHAPTER VIII . STORY OF MAHAKAPPINA - THERA . " STORY OF THE PROBATIONER TISSA . 77.
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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.