The Phoenix, a monthly magazine for China, Japan and eastern Asia, ed. by J. SummersJames Summers |
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... look for really reliable in- formation . Here in London we possess advantages which are only partially attainable in the East . The great libraries , offer facilities for research , -and the presence of numerous Orientals in London ...
... look for really reliable in- formation . Here in London we possess advantages which are only partially attainable in the East . The great libraries , offer facilities for research , -and the presence of numerous Orientals in London ...
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... look of assumed innocence , " really you are too suspicious of me , the journey did not consume more than twenty odd days , and I was , as you know , obliged to use all haste in order to ensure my arriving in Peking before the examina ...
... look of assumed innocence , " really you are too suspicious of me , the journey did not consume more than twenty odd days , and I was , as you know , obliged to use all haste in order to ensure my arriving in Peking before the examina ...
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... look at continually in order to keep me always in your thoughts , and to re- turn to me should we ever be so fortunate as to meet again . said , if you remember , that it was one of a pair , which pair was an emblem of husband and wife ...
... look at continually in order to keep me always in your thoughts , and to re- turn to me should we ever be so fortunate as to meet again . said , if you remember , that it was one of a pair , which pair was an emblem of husband and wife ...
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... look through a pair of large spectacles , and carry under their arm an umbrella of Mrs. Gampish dimensions . They generally shuffle along the streets at an uneasy pace , and they are usually found to disappear with a jerk into a second ...
... look through a pair of large spectacles , and carry under their arm an umbrella of Mrs. Gampish dimensions . They generally shuffle along the streets at an uneasy pace , and they are usually found to disappear with a jerk into a second ...
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... look to the Semitic race for its origin . The article comes from the demonstrative pronoun , and coincides with the name of unity , which also has its source in the demonstrative pronoun , the Breton articles originated in the sign of ...
... look to the Semitic race for its origin . The article comes from the demonstrative pronoun , and coincides with the name of unity , which also has its source in the demonstrative pronoun , the Breton articles originated in the sign of ...
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Adi-Buddha ancient army basin beautiful Brahman Buddha Buddhism Buddhist called Cambodian capital cause central character chief China Chinese Choo-lun Chwang-sang Cochin-Chinese D'Ohsson Dharma dynasty east Eastern emperor empire European existence father feet foreign Gur Khan hand Heu-heung hills Himalaya horses husband India inhabitants Japan Japanese Jingis Khan Kashgar Keaou-choo Keraits king lady language latter Le-kea Manchuria Manchus means Ming dynasty Mongols mountains Muhammadan native nature Népál Nepaul Nirvritti Nuck Nuck Phra Ong Oirats old servant original Peking phænomena plains Prajná Pravritti present prince province race region Rémusat replied rice river Sanskrit sent Shensi shew Shoo-chêng Siam Siamese Súdra Sun-foo Swabháva Tangut Tathagata temple Temujin Thatone things Tibet Tibetan Tien-shi tion Tishta told Too-shih-neang took town translation tribes Upaya viceroy Wang Khan Western whilst whole wife words Yatna Yedo Yug Patchan
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Page 143 - Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari.
Page 159 - I can trace something very like Buddhism into far ages and realms : but I am sure that that Buddhism which has come down to us in the Sanskrit, Pali and Tibetan books of the sect, and which alone therefore we do or can know, is neither old nor exotic. That Buddhism (the doctrines of the...
Page 141 - ... siphia, digenea) belong to the mid-region ; and the plainer and more European types are alone found in the northern. Among the fissirostres, goat-suckers and swallows are pretty generally distributed; but rollers, bee-eaters, eurylaimi, trogons, and all such gaudy types belong to the south, with only occasional alpine representatives, as bucia is of merops. The tenuirostral birds belong distinctly to the lower region, yet they have representatives or summer visitants in all three, even among...
Page 40 - Pur&na.) 2. He whose image is Siinya t;1, who is like a cypherJ or point, infinite, unsustained (in Nirvritti), and sustained (in Pravritti), whose essence is Nirvritti, of whom all things are forms (in Pravritti), and who is yet formless (in Nirvritti), who is the Iswara, the first intellectual essence, the Adi-Buddha, was revealed by his own will.
Page 143 - Parana relates in substance as follows : That formerly the valley of Nepaul was of circular form, and full of very deep water, and that the mountains confining it were clothed with the densest forests, giving shelter to numberless birds and beasts. Countless waterfowl rejoiced in the waters. The name of the lake was Niiga Vâsa;§ it was beautiful as the lake of Indra; south of the Hemáchal, the residence of Karkotaka, prince of the Nagas ; seven со
Page 143 - NW (Vayukona) side of it, and, having repeated several mantras over the root of a lotos, he threw it into the water, exclaiming, " What time this root shall produce a flower, then, from out of the flower, Swayambhu, the Lord of Agnishtha Bhuvana, shall be revealed in the form of flame ; and then shall the lake become a cultivated and populous country.