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... FOUR TRUTHS , ETC .: Note on the Eight - Fold Way , IIO IX . MORAL SYSTEM : Note on Transmigration , X. THE VICES , • XI . THE VIRTUES , XII . THE PRECEPTS , 133 148 159 I CHAP . XIII . SPECIAL MORAL RULES OF THE COMMUNITY 182.
... FOUR TRUTHS , ETC .: Note on the Eight - Fold Way , IIO IX . MORAL SYSTEM : Note on Transmigration , X. THE VICES , • XI . THE VIRTUES , XII . THE PRECEPTS , 133 148 159 I CHAP . XIII . SPECIAL MORAL RULES OF THE COMMUNITY 182.
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... four or five hundred millions who are said to be , if not all Buddhists , yet all in some degree affected by Bud- dhism , the whole Southern group counts only thirty millions , while the Buddhists of Ceylon are less than two millions ...
... four or five hundred millions who are said to be , if not all Buddhists , yet all in some degree affected by Bud- dhism , the whole Southern group counts only thirty millions , while the Buddhists of Ceylon are less than two millions ...
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... four hundred millions . But in looking at such a list , and finding the whole of China reckoned as Buddhist , one necessarily asks , Where are the Confucianists and the Taoists ? Is it a mistake to suppose that these are numerous in ...
... four hundred millions . But in looking at such a list , and finding the whole of China reckoned as Buddhist , one necessarily asks , Where are the Confucianists and the Taoists ? Is it a mistake to suppose that these are numerous in ...
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... four signs , the sleeping babe , the flying horse , and the rest . One feature which has been woven into that legend does occur in the Maha Vagga , -the scene of the sleeping women in their uncomely disorder , but it occurs not in ...
... four signs , the sleeping babe , the flying horse , and the rest . One feature which has been woven into that legend does occur in the Maha Vagga , -the scene of the sleeping women in their uncomely disorder , but it occurs not in ...
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... four great gods - guardians of the four quarters of the world - provided four stone bowls , and in these the Buddha accepted and ate the offering . The two merchants then enrolled themselves as his disciples , ' taking refuge ' in the ...
... four great gods - guardians of the four quarters of the world - provided four stone bowls , and in these the Buddha accepted and ate the offering . The two merchants then enrolled themselves as his disciples , ' taking refuge ' in the ...
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