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... thing of great importance , enough attention cannot be paid to it . Now the whole is once more distributed in three vessels , each of 200 M. contents , these are , in three or four hours ' time , wrapped about with mats , which after ...
... thing of great importance , enough attention cannot be paid to it . Now the whole is once more distributed in three vessels , each of 200 M. contents , these are , in three or four hours ' time , wrapped about with mats , which after ...
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... thing when you once accept office , then there is the official prestage to be kept up , moreover , here under the Emperor's throne , there are the Imperial Censors , * who watch us like concealed tigers , and one's good name becomes of ...
... thing when you once accept office , then there is the official prestage to be kept up , moreover , here under the Emperor's throne , there are the Imperial Censors , * who watch us like concealed tigers , and one's good name becomes of ...
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... thing to be done was to return as quickly as he could to the capital , inform his master , and return to him the letter which he had been unable to deliver . This there- fore he did , and Choo - lun was naturally much grieved at hearing ...
... thing to be done was to return as quickly as he could to the capital , inform his master , and return to him the letter which he had been unable to deliver . This there- fore he did , and Choo - lun was naturally much grieved at hearing ...
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... thing as th - th - that , I c - c - can as - s - s - sure you that I have it qu - qu - quite safe . " " If you have it quite safe , " answered Shoo - cheng , " I suppose it is in this house , and the best thing you can do will be to go ...
... thing as th - th - that , I c - c - can as - s - s - sure you that I have it qu - qu - quite safe . " " If you have it quite safe , " answered Shoo - cheng , " I suppose it is in this house , and the best thing you can do will be to go ...
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... things are governed or perfected by Swab- háva ; I too am governed by Swabháva . ( Ashta Sahasrika . ) 2. It is proper for the worshipper at the time of worship to reflect thus : I am Nirlipta , § and the object of my worship is ...
... things are governed or perfected by Swab- háva ; I too am governed by Swabháva . ( Ashta Sahasrika . ) 2. It is proper for the worshipper at the time of worship to reflect thus : I am Nirlipta , § and the object of my worship is ...
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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.