Buddhism: Being a Sketch of the Life and Teachings of Gautama, the BuddhaSociety for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1887 - 252 pages |
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... belief in one religion should or should not , as far as statistics are concerned , be nullified by an equally firm belief in another . The numbers are only interesting in so far as they afford a very rough test of the in- fluence which ...
... belief in one religion should or should not , as far as statistics are concerned , be nullified by an equally firm belief in another . The numbers are only interesting in so far as they afford a very rough test of the in- fluence which ...
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... 331 ) , where full details may be seen . 4 Comp . Berghaus , Atlas : Haeckel , Creation , ii . 333 . 5 By the Indian census of 1872 there were 139,248,568 Hindus Looked at solely as statistics of actual religious belief , 6 BUDDHISM .
... 331 ) , where full details may be seen . 4 Comp . Berghaus , Atlas : Haeckel , Creation , ii . 333 . 5 By the Indian census of 1872 there were 139,248,568 Hindus Looked at solely as statistics of actual religious belief , 6 BUDDHISM .
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... belief , the foregoing calculations may be utterly mis- leading , unless used with great care ; they are vitiated by the attempt to class each man's religion under one word . In point of fact , each item lies open to an objection ...
... belief , the foregoing calculations may be utterly mis- leading , unless used with great care ; they are vitiated by the attempt to class each man's religion under one word . In point of fact , each item lies open to an objection ...
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... beliefs . But , nevertheless , each of these beliefs breathes more or less of the spirit of the system out of which they all alike have grown , and can only be rightly understood by those who have first realized what that system really ...
... beliefs . But , nevertheless , each of these beliefs breathes more or less of the spirit of the system out of which they all alike have grown , and can only be rightly understood by those who have first realized what that system really ...
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... belief therefore falls to the ground , and we are left to our own researches to ascertain the time when their sacred books were composed . This has as yet been very imperfectly done , but it may be stated generally that some of the ...
... belief therefore falls to the ground , and we are left to our own researches to ascertain the time when their sacred books were composed . This has as yet been very imperfectly done , but it may be stated generally that some of the ...
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afterwards Ananda ancient Arahats Asoka Beal Beal's become belief Bigandet Bodhisatwas Brahman Buddha Buddhist Buddhist Suttas Burnouf called century Ceylon chapter chariot Childers's Chinese commentary Comp Compare council Dāgaba death delusion Dhamma-pada dhists Dhyana disciples doctrine eight precepts evil existence father former birth Foucaux Gautama given gods Gogerly Hardy heaven Hian Hindu Hiouen Thsang holy idea India Jātaka Jhāna Kapilavastu Karma Kāṣyapa king Lalita Vistara legend live Lotus lust Magadha Mahāvansa meditation mendicant mind monasteries monks moral Nāgasena Nirvana Northern Buddhists Order Pāli Parinibbāna passages Path Pitakas precepts present quoted Rāhula rainy season rāja Rājagriha reached religion robes sacred Saññā Sanskrit sects Sinhalese Skandhas sorrow Ṣrāvasti story Suddhodana Sutta Nipāta Sutta Pitaka take the vow Teacher teaching thought Tibetan translation tree truth upādāna vedanā verses Vinaya Texts Wihāra words worship Yasodhara
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Page 38 - Gan thunder, and both ends of Heaven ; the clouds., From many a horrid rift abortive pour'd Fierce rain with lightning mix'd...
Page 173 - ... abroad ; in order that pure religion may last long and be perpetuated, in order that it may continue to be for the good and happiness of the great multitudes, out of pity for the world, to the good and the gain and the weal of gods and men...
Page 234 - Senna, in Lombardy, is said to have been a tree in the time of Julius Caesar; yet the Bo-tree is older than the oldest of these by a century, and would almost seem to verify the prophecy pronounced when it was planted, that it would flourish and be green forever.
Page 135 - Lady, what is this that you say! The living are few, but the dead are many." Then she went to other houses, but one said, "I have lost a son;" another, "I have lost my parents;" another, "I have lost my slave.
Page 82 - Enough Ananda! Do not let yourself be troubled; do not weep! Have I not already, on former occasions, told you that it is in the very nature of all things most near and dear unto us that we must divide ourselves from them, leave them, sever ourselves from them?
Page 110 - ... cultivate love without measure towards all beings. Let him cultivate towards the whole world — above, below, around — a heart of love unstinted, unmixed with the sense of differing or opposing interests. Let a man maintain this inindfulness all the while he is awake, whether he be standing, walking, sitting, or lying down. This state of heart is the best in the world.
Page 38 - Though rooted deep as high, and sturdiest oaks, Bow'd their stiff necks, loaden with stormy blasts, Or torn up sheer.
Page 40 - The philosophy he had trusted in seemed to be doubtful ; the penance he had practised so long had brought no certainty, no peace ; and all his old temptations came back upon him with renewed force. For years he had looked at all earthly good as vanity, worthless and transitory.