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Page 170
... edicts , to have grasped this first among Buddhist principles . He not only professed and enjoined re- gard for animal life , but instituted hospitals , as he says , throughout India for brutes as well as for men , and planted the herbs ...
... edicts , to have grasped this first among Buddhist principles . He not only professed and enjoined re- gard for animal life , but instituted hospitals , as he says , throughout India for brutes as well as for men , and planted the herbs ...
Page 184
... edicts . Their history is probably this . They were origin- ally formulated , with the other five of the group called the ten precepts , for the guidance of the monks . As lay disciples increased around the Community , these were ...
... edicts . Their history is probably this . They were origin- ally formulated , with the other five of the group called the ten precepts , for the guidance of the monks . As lay disciples increased around the Community , these were ...
Page 186
... edicts . In the earliest group he says that he not only has withdrawn his patronage from sacrifices , but has reduced to a minimum the supplies for the royal table . At a later date he had given up eating meat altogether . But the fact ...
... edicts . In the earliest group he says that he not only has withdrawn his patronage from sacrifices , but has reduced to a minimum the supplies for the royal table . At a later date he had given up eating meat altogether . But the fact ...
Page 254
... edicts of the many ' female mendicants . ' This is indisputable evidence of the existence of the institution in his day . In the account of Mahinda , the converter of Ceylon , and his sister Sanghamitta , the bearer of the Bo - branch ...
... edicts of the many ' female mendicants . ' This is indisputable evidence of the existence of the institution in his day . In the account of Mahinda , the converter of Ceylon , and his sister Sanghamitta , the bearer of the Bo - branch ...
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... Edicts . But the veracity of the chronicles is an inference from their agreement with the Edicts , and it is in the Edicts alone that we obtain first - hand contemporary evidence . These Edicts were carved in stone in the second and ...
... Edicts . But the veracity of the chronicles is an inference from their agreement with the Edicts , and it is in the Edicts alone that we obtain first - hand contemporary evidence . These Edicts were carved in stone in the second and ...
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