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... ascetic , almost certainly of some Buddhist profession ( Sarmanacarya ) , who burnt himself at Athens . 1 Beal , Buddhism in China , p . 42 . 2 Sir W. W. Hunter , Indian Empire , pp . 147 , 176 . details of what we are told about this ...
... ascetic , almost certainly of some Buddhist profession ( Sarmanacarya ) , who burnt himself at Athens . 1 Beal , Buddhism in China , p . 42 . 2 Sir W. W. Hunter , Indian Empire , pp . 147 , 176 . details of what we are told about this ...
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... ascetic contemplation - this rule , so strange to us , was probably not yet formulated , as it was in the Manu Code , as a fundamental principle of the ideal life . But it must already have been at least a familiar , probably a very ...
... ascetic contemplation - this rule , so strange to us , was probably not yet formulated , as it was in the Manu Code , as a fundamental principle of the ideal life . But it must already have been at least a familiar , probably a very ...
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... ascetics , finding in his doctrines what satisfied them better than their own , but the movement became popular ; the enthusiasm for a homeless life became infectious ; and multitudes , many of them young as he had been , pledged them ...
... ascetics , finding in his doctrines what satisfied them better than their own , but the movement became popular ; the enthusiasm for a homeless life became infectious ; and multitudes , many of them young as he had been , pledged them ...
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... asceticism , both men of noble nature . But deities informed him that they had but lately died.1 Next his mind turned to the five mendicants who had afterwards been his companions in austerity , and who had done much for him ; and ...
... asceticism , both men of noble nature . But deities informed him that they had but lately died.1 Next his mind turned to the five mendicants who had afterwards been his companions in austerity , and who had done much for him ; and ...
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... ascetics , Upaka by name , himself a hermit and a seeker after truth ; and Upaka said to him : Your countenance ... ascetic efforts , and had returned to the pleasures of an easy life . They would not , they agreed , salute him or rise ...
... ascetics , Upaka by name , himself a hermit and a seeker after truth ; and Upaka said to him : Your countenance ... ascetic efforts , and had returned to the pleasures of an easy life . They would not , they agreed , salute him or rise ...
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