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Among the discoveries are numbers of miniature stone shrines of non - Buddhist
origin , like that figured on p . 43 . Until the followers of Buddha marked the Deer -
park as specially devoted to members of their order , it was a common retreat ...
Among the discoveries are numbers of miniature stone shrines of non - Buddhist
origin , like that figured on p . 43 . Until the followers of Buddha marked the Deer -
park as specially devoted to members of their order , it was a common retreat ...
Page 58
Asoka , the third emperor of the Magadha dynasty , became a member of the
Buddhist order , or Sangha , made Buddhism the state religion , and sent
missionaries to Kashmir , the Himalayan regions , Afghanistan , Burma , southern
India ...
Asoka , the third emperor of the Magadha dynasty , became a member of the
Buddhist order , or Sangha , made Buddhism the state religion , and sent
missionaries to Kashmir , the Himalayan regions , Afghanistan , Burma , southern
India ...
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The raised terrace in front of the mosque is built upon some very much older
structure , which Sherring suggests might have been a Buddhist vihâra or temple
- monastery . This , however , is mere conjecture . On equally substantial grounds
it ...
The raised terrace in front of the mosque is built upon some very much older
structure , which Sherring suggests might have been a Buddhist vihâra or temple
- monastery . This , however , is mere conjecture . On equally substantial grounds
it ...
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Contents
IN THE VEDIC TIMES | 1 |
THE HINDU EPICSHEROWORSHIP | 17 |
THE ADVENT OF BUDDHASARNATH AND | 32 |
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| Title | Benares, the Sacred City: Sketches of Hindu Life and Religion |
| Author | Ernest Binfield Havell |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | W. Thacker, 1912 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 3 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 226 pages |
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