Buddhist Philosophy in India and CeylonClarendon Press, 1923 - 339 pages |
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... birth ; they descend in full consciousness amid surpassing radiance throughout the universe into their mother's womb , in which they abide in happiness , completely visible to their mothers for ten months before birth . At birth gods ...
... birth ; they descend in full consciousness amid surpassing radiance throughout the universe into their mother's womb , in which they abide in happiness , completely visible to their mothers for ten months before birth . At birth gods ...
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... birth when a Buddha was in existence . A disciple , therefore , who seeks to become a Buddhist cannot attain his end , unless he has the necessary faith as an indispensable preliminary . He must believe that the Buddha is indeed fully ...
... birth when a Buddha was in existence . A disciple , therefore , who seeks to become a Buddhist cannot attain his end , unless he has the necessary faith as an indispensable preliminary . He must believe that the Buddha is indeed fully ...
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... birth ; there is no more coming to be . ' Nor does the Tatha- gata reveal all that is past ; what is not true , what is not fact , what does not redound to the good of mankind , he leaves alone ; nor does he reveal what is true , what ...
... birth ; there is no more coming to be . ' Nor does the Tatha- gata reveal all that is past ; what is not true , what is not fact , what does not redound to the good of mankind , he leaves alone ; nor does he reveal what is true , what ...
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... birth . Nor is there any possibility of giving an idealistic interpretation to the derivation in the chain of causality of name and form from intellect or consciousness . Here again we are confronted with the excessive desire to read ...
... birth . Nor is there any possibility of giving an idealistic interpretation to the derivation in the chain of causality of name and form from intellect or consciousness . Here again we are confronted with the excessive desire to read ...
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... birth . We have here a crude enough idea , but it is perfectly plain in sense , and the idealistic interpretation of Franke is wholly impossible . ' There is no more substance in his other contentions ; to watch over the senses conveys ...
... birth . We have here a crude enough idea , but it is perfectly plain in sense , and the idealistic interpretation of Franke is wholly impossible . ' There is no more substance in his other contentions ; to watch over the senses conveys ...
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Abhidhamma absolute accept action admitted aggregates Andhakas appears asserted attained BCAP Beckh birth Bodhisattva body Brahmanical Buddha Buddhaghosa Buddhist cause chain of causation conception connexion consciousness death denotes deny desire Dhamma disciples dispositions doctrine doubtless early Buddhism effect elements empirical enlightenment essential existence explained external fact faith feeling gods Hinayana idea ignorance impermanence India individual intuition JRAS knowledge later Madhyamaka Mahasanghikas Mahāyāna matter meditation mental merely Milindapañha mind misery momentary monk name and form nature Nikaya Nirvana object Oldenberg pain Pali Canon perception Pitaka pleasure possible Poussin present Psych psychic reality rebirth recognized regarded Rhys Davids salvation Samkhya Sammitiyas saññā Sanskrit Sautrantika sense soul suggestion Sutta Sutta Pitaka Tathāgata term texts theory things thirst thought tradition true Upanisads Vaibhāṣikas Vasubandhu Vijñānavāda Vinaya viññāna void Walleser Wassilieff Yoga ZDMG
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Page 63 - Here again we are confronted with bare possibilities ; it is quite legitimate to hold that the Buddha was a genuine agnostic, that he had studied the various systems of ideas prevalent in his day without deriving any. greater satisfaction from them than any of us to-day do from the study of modern systems, and that he had no reasoned or other conviction on the matter.
Page 9 - JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society JASB Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal JBBRAS Journal of the Bombay Branch...
Page 64 - ... in any sense, that is the existence of the Absolute One. I cannot here explain the reasons why, to my way of thinking, philosophy is forced to accept the metaphysical conception of the Absolute One, although, if this idea be realized in perfect sharpness, we are as unable to think as to deny that the Absolute One is either identical with, or different from, the world.1 I only state that the Absolute One in its very sense, as also, for instance, in the sense of...
Page 55 - Verily, I declare to you, my friend, that within this very body, mortal as it is and only a fathom high, but conscious and endowed with mind...
Page 170 - Just so, O king, is the continuity of a person or thing maintained. One comes into being, another passes away; and the rebirth is, as it were, simultaneous. Thus neither as the same nor as another does a man go on to the last phase of his self-consciousness.
Page 40 - Thus fearing and abhorring the being wrong in an expressed opinion, he will neither declare anything to be good, nor to be bad ; but on a question being put to him on this or that, he resorts to eel-wriggling, to equivocation, and says : " I don't take it thus. I don't take it the other way. But I advance no different opinion. And I don't deny your position. And I don't say it is neither the one, nor the other V
Page 130 - The higher life has been fulfilled. What had to be done has been accomplished. After this present life there will be no beyond.
Page 29 - ... was due to the fact that he either had claims to divinity, or his followers attributed it to him and won general acceptance for the view. It is conceivable that divinity was thrust upon him against his will, but every ground of probability supports the plain evidence of the texts that he himself hud claims which necessarily conferred upon him a place as high as the rank of the greatest of gods.
Page 78 - ... on, so fundamental to the right understanding of primitive Buddhism, that it is essential there should be no mistake about it. Yet the position is also so original, so fundamentally opposed to what is usually understood as religious belief, both in India and elsewhere, that there is great temptation to attempt to find a loophole through which at least a covert or esoteric belief in the soul and in future life (that is of course of a soul), can be recognised, in some sort of way, as part of so...