Buddhism: Being a Sketch of the Life and Teachings of Gautama, the BuddhaSociety for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1887 - 252 pages |
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... expressions , like the Swan of Avon , may have had very real significance in moments of poetic fire ; but their constant use among the Bud- dhists tended , not to bring into clearer vision , but to veil the personality of Gautama , and ...
... expressions , like the Swan of Avon , may have had very real significance in moments of poetic fire ; but their constant use among the Bud- dhists tended , not to bring into clearer vision , but to veil the personality of Gautama , and ...
Page 30
... expression— inadequate it may be , and even childish - of what in the main we must ourselves believe to be the true explanation of the cause which induced Gautama to abandon his family and his home . He was probably not the first - he ...
... expression— inadequate it may be , and even childish - of what in the main we must ourselves believe to be the true explanation of the cause which induced Gautama to abandon his family and his home . He was probably not the first - he ...
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... expressions which have hardened into false and inconsistent creeds . To us , now , these legends may appear childish or absurd , but they are not without a beauty of their own ; and they have still a depth of meaning to those who strive ...
... expressions which have hardened into false and inconsistent creeds . To us , now , these legends may appear childish or absurd , but they are not without a beauty of their own ; and they have still a depth of meaning to those who strive ...
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... expression and carriage , asks him , ' Whence comes it that thy form is so perfect , thy countenance so lovely , thy appearance so peace- ful ? What system of religion is it that imparts to thee such joy and such peace ? ' To this ...
... expression and carriage , asks him , ' Whence comes it that thy form is so perfect , thy countenance so lovely , thy appearance so peace- ful ? What system of religion is it that imparts to thee such joy and such peace ? ' To this ...
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... expression turning the wheel of the excellent Law means , I think , ' To found a king- dom of righteousness ' ; and the expression to open the gate of Immortality to men , ' being quite unbud- dhistic , has probably arisen from a ...
... expression turning the wheel of the excellent Law means , I think , ' To found a king- dom of righteousness ' ; and the expression to open the gate of Immortality to men , ' being quite unbud- dhistic , has probably arisen from a ...
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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.