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... arisen , vast multitudes in India and in China and the surrounding countries professed to find refuge in the Buddha . It is very 1 See Note A at the end of this chapter . A possible , therefore - and it is a startling thought- — ...
... arisen , vast multitudes in India and in China and the surrounding countries professed to find refuge in the Buddha . It is very 1 See Note A at the end of this chapter . A possible , therefore - and it is a startling thought- — ...
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... India or of China is as nothing . But the spectacle of human multitudes is still an impressive and a moving spec- tacle , often a most pathetic one ; and we cannot but ask , with deep interest , what is the nature of that teaching which ...
... India or of China is as nothing . But the spectacle of human multitudes is still an impressive and a moving spec- tacle , often a most pathetic one ; and we cannot but ask , with deep interest , what is the nature of that teaching which ...
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... Indian heart , the reader of this book will be , I hope , in a position to judge for himself ; so far at least as concerns the limited field over which I propose to conduct him . For whereas the question is complicated by the great ...
... Indian heart , the reader of this book will be , I hope , in a position to judge for himself ; so far at least as concerns the limited field over which I propose to conduct him . For whereas the question is complicated by the great ...
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... India and then in Ceylon , period by period , to the present day . But , before putting altogether out of sight the Northern School , it may be necessary briefly to ex- plain why this can safely be done . The facts which justify it are ...
... India and then in Ceylon , period by period , to the present day . But , before putting altogether out of sight the Northern School , it may be necessary briefly to ex- plain why this can safely be done . The facts which justify it are ...
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... India , but at the earlier date ( to Ceylon ) from an India in which Buddhism was still but little altered from its primitive form ; 3 at the later 1 The Southern Buddhism may be correctly called the Buddhism of Ceylon , as Ceylon is ...
... India , but at the earlier date ( to Ceylon ) from an India in which Buddhism was still but little altered from its primitive form ; 3 at the later 1 The Southern Buddhism may be correctly called the Buddhism of Ceylon , as Ceylon is ...
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Page 504 - ARISTOTLE.— THE WORKS OF. The Politics: G. Bekker's Greek Text of Books I. III. IV. (VII.), with an English Translation by WE BOLLAND, MA ; and short Introductory Essays by A. LANG, MA Crown 8vo.