Buddhist Philosophy in India and CeylonClarendon Press, 1923 - 339 pages |
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... desire to save the credibility of the Council has indeed led Mr. Vincent Smith to a paradox ; he admits candidly that the Ceylonese date , sixteen or eighteen years after the con- secration of Asoka , must be erroneous , since , if it ...
... desire to save the credibility of the Council has indeed led Mr. Vincent Smith to a paradox ; he admits candidly that the Ceylonese date , sixteen or eighteen years after the con- secration of Asoka , must be erroneous , since , if it ...
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... desire to modernize and to find reason prevailing in a barbarous age , we should rather expect to find that the Buddha was one who was indeed human , but who at the same time felt him- self to be , and was regarded by his followers as ...
... desire to modernize and to find reason prevailing in a barbarous age , we should rather expect to find that the Buddha was one who was indeed human , but who at the same time felt him- self to be , and was regarded by his followers as ...
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... desire which leads to death , is not to be explained away as metaphorical or the fruit of a poetic fancy ; to the Buddha himself as to his followers we may easily believe the experience was as real as anything else in the world ; does ...
... desire which leads to death , is not to be explained away as metaphorical or the fruit of a poetic fancy ; to the Buddha himself as to his followers we may easily believe the experience was as real as anything else in the world ; does ...
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... desire of future life or by belief in the efficacy of outward acts and conducive to con- centration of the heart . Faith is the root of correct knowledge ; man does not think out the doctrines of the Buddha by the independent light of ...
... desire of future life or by belief in the efficacy of outward acts and conducive to con- centration of the heart . Faith is the root of correct knowledge ; man does not think out the doctrines of the Buddha by the independent light of ...
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... desire ; the Buddha himself in the night when he gained · enlightenment experienced , with his development of insight into the truths of pain , its cause , its end , and the means to its cessation , the realization of freedom from the ...
... desire ; the Buddha himself in the night when he gained · enlightenment experienced , with his development of insight into the truths of pain , its cause , its end , and the means to its cessation , the realization of freedom from the ...
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Abhidhamma absolute accept action admitted aggregates Andhakas appears Arhant asserted attained BCAP Beckh Bhāmatī birth Bodhisattva body Brahmanical Buddha Buddhaghosa Buddhist cause chain of causation Chinese cognition conception consciousness death deny desire Dhamma Dharmakirti Dignaga disciples distinction doctrine early Buddhism effect elements enlightenment essential existence external fact feeling Hinayana idea ignorance illusion impermanent individual inference intellect intuition JRAS knowledge Madhyamaka Mahasanghikas Mahāyāna matter meditation mental merely merit Milindapañha mind misery momentary monk name and form nature Nikaya Nirvana non-existence object Oldenberg Pali Canon perception Pitaka possible Poussin present reality rebirth recognized regarded release result Rhys Davids salvation Samkhya Sammitiyas saññā Sanskrit Sautrantika sense soul Sutta Tathāgata term texts theory things thirst thought tradition true truth unreal Upanisads Vaibhāṣikas Vasubandhu Vedanta Vijñānavāda Vinaya viññāna void Walleser Wassilieff Yoga
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Page 61 - 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 7 - JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society JASB Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal JBBRAS Journal of the Bombay Branch...
Page 62 - ... 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 53 - 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 168 - 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 38 - 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 128 - The higher life has been fulfilled. What had to be done has been accomplished. After this present life there will be no beyond.
Page 27 - ... 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 76 - ... 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...