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... doctrines , yet the people as a whole have no respect for the Buddhist Church , and habitually sneer at Buddhist priests.'1 ' In Japan , ' writes a well - qualified observer , ' Buddhism is every- where mixed up with Shintoism , and ...
... doctrines , yet the people as a whole have no respect for the Buddhist Church , and habitually sneer at Buddhist priests.'1 ' In Japan , ' writes a well - qualified observer , ' Buddhism is every- where mixed up with Shintoism , and ...
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... doctrine , as it was in place , a Northern ' council , and that it may have given authority and permanence to that development . It was not apparently by Kanishka that Buddhism was sent to China , but his work was very likely a ...
... doctrine , as it was in place , a Northern ' council , and that it may have given authority and permanence to that development . It was not apparently by Kanishka that Buddhism was sent to China , but his work was very likely a ...
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... 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- selves to his rules . By ...
... 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- selves to his rules . By ...
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... doctrine , to later writings in which he is beginning to be the object of the believers ' admir- ation for his own sake . Contrast the language of the Maha Vagga with such a passage as that in Maj . Nik . 22 where Gotama says : [ Those ...
... doctrine , to later writings in which he is beginning to be the object of the believers ' admir- ation for his own sake . Contrast the language of the Maha Vagga with such a passage as that in Maj . Nik . 22 where Gotama says : [ Those ...
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... doctrines of all the Buddhas , ' of which , in this age , Gotama was the teacher . Even such biographies as do exist are only partial and supplementary . And the oldest of them has no external claim in its existing form to an antiquity ...
... doctrines of all the Buddhas , ' of which , in this age , Gotama was the teacher . Even such biographies as do exist are only partial and supplementary . And the oldest of them has no external claim in its existing form to an antiquity ...
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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.