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Page 10
... chronicles represent - substantial uniformity . The very minuteness and superficiality of the points which are said to have been contested between the different sects in the fourth century show that they had not diverged widely from one ...
... chronicles represent - substantial uniformity . The very minuteness and superficiality of the points which are said to have been contested between the different sects in the fourth century show that they had not diverged widely from one ...
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... chronicles themselves , which profess to record the history of Buddhism in India . up to Asoka's time , thenceforward leave India to continue that history in Ceylon . Such light as there is comes from a very different quarter . The ...
... chronicles themselves , which profess to record the history of Buddhism in India . up to Asoka's time , thenceforward leave India to continue that history in Ceylon . Such light as there is comes from a very different quarter . The ...
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... chronicles ( of the Dipavansa and the 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 ...
... chronicles ( of the Dipavansa and the 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 ...
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... chronicle speaks of 800,000,000 of monks , and of only 96,000 nuns ; ' one nun to more than 10,000 monks . The exception ( known to me : there may be others ) is the book called Therigáthá , or ' Stanzas spoken by female elders . ' The ...
... chronicle speaks of 800,000,000 of monks , and of only 96,000 nuns ; ' one nun to more than 10,000 monks . The exception ( known to me : there may be others ) is the book called Therigáthá , or ' Stanzas spoken by female elders . ' The ...
Page 254
... chronicle . The traditions of Ceylon are in keeping with this . There are , so far as I know , no places named after nuns ; no stories about famous nuns ; none of their dwellings or halls , so far as we know , remain . In the later ...
... chronicle . The traditions of Ceylon are in keeping with this . There are , so far as I know , no places named after nuns ; no stories about famous nuns ; none of their dwellings or halls , so far as we know , remain . In the later ...
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