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Page ix
... Mahavansa , with its analysis of contents and chronological tables . My obligations to friends in Ceylon , both English and Sinhalese , for information verbally given , are both too numerous , and , from the nature of the case , too ...
... Mahavansa , with its analysis of contents and chronological tables . My obligations to friends in Ceylon , both English and Sinhalese , for information verbally given , are both too numerous , and , from the nature of the case , too ...
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... Mahavansa ) , first in Magadha , from Gotama to Asoka ; and then in Ceylon , from Mahinda to the present day . -which occurs in a controversial and probably late group of Suttas - may mark the beginning of the use of the term ; but it ...
... Mahavansa ) , first in Magadha , from Gotama to Asoka ; and then in Ceylon , from Mahinda to the present day . -which occurs in a controversial and probably late group of Suttas - may mark the beginning of the use of the term ; but it ...
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... Mahavansa relates ) at different dates to revive it by getting monks and books from Aracan and Siam . During the pressure of the Dutch wars it fell so low that , the historian more than once says , ' there was not one monk in Ceylon ...
... Mahavansa relates ) at different dates to revive it by getting monks and books from Aracan and Siam . During the pressure of the Dutch wars it fell so low that , the historian more than once says , ' there was not one monk in Ceylon ...
Page 170
... , form an amusing episode in the Mahavansa ( chap . xxxvii . ) . Here it may be noted that the credit of having | first founded hospitals belongs undoubtedly to Bud- dhism . Nor can any reader , who has before 170 BUDDHISM.
... , form an amusing episode in the Mahavansa ( chap . xxxvii . ) . Here it may be noted that the credit of having | first founded hospitals belongs undoubtedly to Bud- dhism . Nor can any reader , who has before 170 BUDDHISM.
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... Mahavansa tells us what multitudes of women then entered it . But the posi- tion of the institution in the Mahavansa is very similar to its position in the Vinaya Pitaka . After its foundation it hardly appears again , except in ...
... Mahavansa tells us what multitudes of women then entered it . But the posi- tion of the institution in the Mahavansa is very similar to its position in the Vinaya Pitaka . After its foundation it hardly appears again , except in ...
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