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Page 59
... Jataka stories these incidents are numerous and varied , and some of them are interesting ; but they do not come within our present scope , since there is no evidence that they were attached to Gotama till many centuries after his death ...
... Jataka stories these incidents are numerous and varied , and some of them are interesting ; but they do not come within our present scope , since there is no evidence that they were attached to Gotama till many centuries after his death ...
Page 142
... Jataka stories are devoted to illustrating it.1 The finished monk will have no impulses to bad or good . Love itself , in its active sense , he will avoid . He will be without desire , cultivating only calm.2 It is with a view to this ...
... Jataka stories are devoted to illustrating it.1 The finished monk will have no impulses to bad or good . Love itself , in its active sense , he will avoid . He will be without desire , cultivating only calm.2 It is with a view to this ...
Page 167
... Jatakas of which the people are still so fond . In those ' birth stories , ' a genuine sympathy for animal life , with that racy rustic humour which accompanies it , is often made the means of giving point to the moral , that the dumb ...
... Jatakas of which the people are still so fond . In those ' birth stories , ' a genuine sympathy for animal life , with that racy rustic humour which accompanies it , is often made the means of giving point to the moral , that the dumb ...
Page 170
... Jatakas . It pervades , as we shall see , the inscriptions of Asoka , who seems , if we may judge from the chronological order of his edicts , to have grasped this first among Buddhist principles . He not only professed and enjoined re ...
... Jatakas . It pervades , as we shall see , the inscriptions of Asoka , who seems , if we may judge from the chronological order of his edicts , to have grasped this first among Buddhist principles . He not only professed and enjoined re ...
Page 276
... Jatakas , or , Stories of the Buddha's Previous Lives , is not considered one of the canonical books , but a commentary ... Jataka fables . It was , of course , compiled from those fables , and after them , and is only a witness on the ...
... Jatakas , or , Stories of the Buddha's Previous Lives , is not considered one of the canonical books , but a commentary ... Jataka fables . It was , of course , compiled from those fables , and after them , and is only a witness on the ...
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