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... plain but neat , and everything about them argues punctilious- ness and a wish to appear well before the world . In one hand is usually a fan inscribed with a few verses , the work of a friend or companion . They are the very essence of ...
... plain but neat , and everything about them argues punctilious- ness and a wish to appear well before the world . In one hand is usually a fan inscribed with a few verses , the work of a friend or companion . They are the very essence of ...
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... plains of India , as the Chaityas of Sanchi , of Gyá , and of Bag , demonstrate . The Dhyani Buddhas appear in the oldest monuments of the continent and islands . Buddhist monachism agrees surprisingly with Christian , whether owing to ...
... plains of India , as the Chaityas of Sanchi , of Gyá , and of Bag , demonstrate . The Dhyani Buddhas appear in the oldest monuments of the continent and islands . Buddhist monachism agrees surprisingly with Christian , whether owing to ...
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... plain around was clay of a red , and in places purple colour . The corundum was obtained in small pits , a few feet deep , at the foot of the hill , and was also often picked up in the neighbour- ing fields , or found on the roads in ...
... plain around was clay of a red , and in places purple colour . The corundum was obtained in small pits , a few feet deep , at the foot of the hill , and was also often picked up in the neighbour- ing fields , or found on the roads in ...
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... plain leads up to that most ironical of defences , the Great Wall of China . It is separated from Siberia by a high range of mountains , broken into minor ranges , known to the Russians as the Stavonoi Khrebît . On the flanks of these ...
... plain leads up to that most ironical of defences , the Great Wall of China . It is separated from Siberia by a high range of mountains , broken into minor ranges , known to the Russians as the Stavonoi Khrebît . On the flanks of these ...
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... plains of the great rivers of Manchuria , the Amur and its tributaries , the Sungari , and the Usuri . They are divided by the Chinese into three sections ; the Wild Iutchi , the Iutchi of Pekoan , and the Iutchi of Nan - koan or Nan ...
... plains of the great rivers of Manchuria , the Amur and its tributaries , the Sungari , and the Usuri . They are divided by the Chinese into three sections ; the Wild Iutchi , the Iutchi of Pekoan , and the Iutchi of Nan - koan or Nan ...
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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.