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... monasteries , that these existed before Gotama intro- duced them . If these are facts , they must be learnt from other sources . It is therefore with only a limited degree of accuracy that we can construct from Buddhist books a picture ...
... monasteries , that these existed before Gotama intro- duced them . If these are facts , they must be learnt from other sources . It is therefore with only a limited degree of accuracy that we can construct from Buddhist books a picture ...
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... monastery or district , or that of one , or of many very learned elders , there is but one test . The sentences and syllables of the dogma under discussion are to be carefully taken and placed beside the sacred text and compared with ...
... monastery or district , or that of one , or of many very learned elders , there is but one test . The sentences and syllables of the dogma under discussion are to be carefully taken and placed beside the sacred text and compared with ...
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... monastery in Colombo used to express his longing for more education in this way : ' I must at any cost get rid of this ignorance . ' What then is the knowledge which is sought ? It would be an utter mistake to think of Buddhism as ...
... monastery in Colombo used to express his longing for more education in this way : ' I must at any cost get rid of this ignorance . ' What then is the knowledge which is sought ? It would be an utter mistake to think of Buddhism as ...
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... monasteries . When and at what date they began to be kept we have at present no means of saying ; but the records which the chronicles of the fifth century embody certainly contain — as we shall presently see - genuine material , from a ...
... monasteries . When and at what date they began to be kept we have at present no means of saying ; but the records which the chronicles of the fifth century embody certainly contain — as we shall presently see - genuine material , from a ...
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... monastery of the Asokáráma , which had been built by king Dhammasoka , the third convocation was finished in the space of nine months.'1 It is not mentioned in his Edicts . The last one is addressed , it is true , to the Community of 1 ...
... monastery of the Asokáráma , which had been built by king Dhammasoka , the third convocation was finished in the space of nine months.'1 It is not mentioned in his Edicts . The last one is addressed , it is true , to the Community of 1 ...
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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.