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... Buddhists , II . RELATION OF CEYLON BUDDHISM TO THE ORIGINAL STOCK , • III . GENERAL HISTORICAL SKETCH , PART II - BUDDHISM IN MAGADHA . IV . LIFE OF GOTAMA : Note - Indications of an Ancient Metrical Life of Gotama , V. THE BUDDHIST ...
... Buddhists , II . RELATION OF CEYLON BUDDHISM TO THE ORIGINAL STOCK , • III . GENERAL HISTORICAL SKETCH , PART II - BUDDHISM IN MAGADHA . IV . LIFE OF GOTAMA : Note - Indications of an Ancient Metrical Life of Gotama , V. THE BUDDHIST ...
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... Buddhism can best be studied . I propose to de- scribe the primitive stock and one of its existing branches ; to show what Buddhism was in Magadha , the land of its origin , and what it is now in Ceylon . The Buddhism of Ceylon belongs ...
... Buddhism can best be studied . I propose to de- scribe the primitive stock and one of its existing branches ; to show what Buddhism was in Magadha , the land of its origin , and what it is now in Ceylon . The Buddhism of Ceylon belongs ...
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... Buddhist brother men , the range of our present study is a very small one indeed . Out of the four or five hundred millions who are said to be , if not all Buddhists , yet all in some degree affected by Bud- dhism , the whole Southern ...
... Buddhist brother men , the range of our present study is a very small one indeed . Out of the four or five hundred millions who are said to be , if not all Buddhists , yet all in some degree affected by Bud- dhism , the whole Southern ...
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... Buddhism and its professors are to be found . These countries were set down as Buddhist ; and it was computed that the aggregate of their population amounted to a total exceeding that of the aggregate population of the countries known ...
... Buddhism and its professors are to be found . These countries were set down as Buddhist ; and it was computed that the aggregate of their population amounted to a total exceeding that of the aggregate population of the countries known ...
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... Buddhist , one necessarily asks , Where are the Confucianists and the Taoists ? Is it a mistake to suppose that these are numerous in China ? Or are they not religions ? Or can the same man be both a Confucianist and a Buddhist ? To the ...
... Buddhist , one necessarily asks , Where are the Confucianists and the Taoists ? Is it a mistake to suppose that these are numerous in China ? Or are they not religions ? Or can the same man be both a Confucianist and a Buddhist ? To the ...
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