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... Christianity . It was at one time my intention , with his aid , to make an abridgment , or complete index , of the whole of the sacred Pitakas . For this purpose I employed a learned ex - priest , Don Johannes Panditatilaka , of Kóggala ...
... Christianity . It was at one time my intention , with his aid , to make an abridgment , or complete index , of the whole of the sacred Pitakas . For this purpose I employed a learned ex - priest , Don Johannes Panditatilaka , of Kóggala ...
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... Christians and the Buddhists . The priests have purchased presses and type , and possess printing establishments of their own . They now refuse to render any assistance to the missionaries , as before , in explaining the native books ...
... Christians and the Buddhists . The priests have purchased presses and type , and possess printing establishments of their own . They now refuse to render any assistance to the missionaries , as before , in explaining the native books ...
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... Christians and Buddhists can alike examine dispassionately . It is not referred to in any of the sacred books ; it belongs to secular history , and not to religion ; and whether it be true or false makes no difference to Buddhism as a ...
... Christians and Buddhists can alike examine dispassionately . It is not referred to in any of the sacred books ; it belongs to secular history , and not to religion ; and whether it be true or false makes no difference to Buddhism as a ...
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... Christianity and Buddhism , or to learn that to be a Christian a man must regard Buddha as a false teacher and his claim to supremacy as a sin against Almighty God . Not in any other part of the earth , to the same extent , are Brahma ...
... Christianity and Buddhism , or to learn that to be a Christian a man must regard Buddha as a false teacher and his claim to supremacy as a sin against Almighty God . Not in any other part of the earth , to the same extent , are Brahma ...
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... Christianity , and to regard all as outcasts who act otherwise , into whose families they will not marry , and whose ... Christians in the church and court , and heathens everywhere else . It is on this account that the present revival ...
... Christianity , and to regard all as outcasts who act otherwise , into whose families they will not marry , and whose ... Christians in the church and court , and heathens everywhere else . It is on this account that the present revival ...
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ancient Anguttara Nikaya appear Aryan authority become birth body brahma-loka Brahmans British Museum Buddha Buddhist called caste cause Ceylon character Christianity cloth Commentaries continent death déwas Dharmma divine doctrines earth edition evidence evil existence extended former Gótama Hindu hymns India island Jambudípa kalpas khandas king Kshatriya language legends lived Maha Méru Mahindo Mátanga Max Müller miles high mind mountain native never Nikaya nirwána Note original Pali period Pingala Pitakas possessed Post 8vo precepts present priest priesthood principles produced race rahats Ráhu received record regarded religion Rig Veda rishis rivers Royal Royal Asiatic Society sacred books sage Sakwala rock Sákya Sanskrit Sára Sangaha seen Sekra Singhalese soul Sramana statements supposed Suttanta Syriac Tathágato teachings tell Text things thought thousand tion told translated tree truth Uttarakuru Vedas Vedic Wannaná whilst whole words yójanas
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Page 39 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
Page 67 - The profoundly wise priests had heretofore orally perpetuated the Pali Pitakattaya and its ArthakathS (commentaries). At this period these priests, foreseeing the perdition of the people (from the perversions of the true doctrines) assembled ; and in order that the religion might endure for ages, recorded the same in...
Page 11 - Brahmin eats but his own food ; wears but his own apparel ; and bestows but his own in alms : through the benevolence of the Brahmin, indeed, other mortals enjoy life.
Page 229 - And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ ; and he shall reign for ever and ever
Page 245 - Ancient Syriac Documents Relative to the Earliest Establishment of Christianity in Edessa and the neighbouring Countries, from the year after our Lord's Ascension to the beginning of the Fourth Century. Discovered, edited, translated, and annotated by W. CURETON, DD, Canon of Westminster.
Page 68 - Preparing for this, and studying the same, translate them according to the rules of the grammar of the Magadhas. It will be an act conducive to the welfare of the whole world.
Page 72 - Buddha, has no place in the geography of the Hindus, suggests that it may be rendered, the substance of Kapila ; intimating, in fact, the Sankhya philosophy, the doctrine of Kapila Muni, upon which the fundamental elements of Buddhism, the eternity of matter, the principles of things, and the final extinction, are supposed to be planned. < It seems not impossible...
Page 69 - Taking up his residence in the secluded Ganthakara vihara, at Anuradhapura, he translated, according to the grammatical rules of the Magadhas, which is the root of all languages, the whole of the Singhalese Atthakatha (into Pali).
Page 147 - Galle, the surface soil rests on a stratum of decomposing coral ; and sea shells are found at a considerable distance from the shore. Further north, at Madampe, between Chilaw and Negombo, the shells of pearl oysters and other bivalves are turned up by the plough more than ten miles from the sea.