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Page 39
... preaching to enter Nirvana at once - to be what another development of the idea called ' a Buddha for himself alone ' , ( For a moment the hopes of the world's blessing hung in suspense . But the great lord of all the gods , the supreme ...
... preaching to enter Nirvana at once - to be what another development of the idea called ' a Buddha for himself alone ' , ( For a moment the hopes of the world's blessing hung in suspense . But the great lord of all the gods , the supreme ...
Page 40
... preach ? Who will be able to understand ? ' And he thought at once of his two old friends , ' Alára Káláma and Uddaka Rámaputta , his companions in his earliest asceticism , both men of noble nature . But deities informed him that they ...
... preach ? Who will be able to understand ? ' And he thought at once of his two old friends , ' Alára Káláma and Uddaka Rámaputta , his companions in his earliest asceticism , both men of noble nature . But deities informed him that they ...
Page 42
... preach the doctrine . If you walk in the way I show you , you will ere long have penetrated to the truth , having yourselves known and seen it face to face ; and you will live in the possession ( even in this life ) 2 of that highest ...
... preach the doctrine . If you walk in the way I show you , you will ere long have penetrated to the truth , having yourselves known and seen it face to face ; and you will live in the possession ( even in this life ) 2 of that highest ...
Page 54
... preaching , and finally that he might understand it . Having formally asked to be admitted From this day forth , while life shall last , as a follower who has gone for refuge ' to the Buddha , the king begged for the honour of ...
... preaching , and finally that he might understand it . Having formally asked to be admitted From this day forth , while life shall last , as a follower who has gone for refuge ' to the Buddha , the king begged for the honour of ...
Page 58
... preaching and the death . It would naturally have been in the earlier part of this period1 that Gotama paid the visit to his native place of which we have a brief but somewhat touching account in Maha Vagga , i . 54. In the course of ...
... preaching and the death . It would naturally have been in the earlier part of this period1 that Gotama paid the visit to his native place of which we have a brief but somewhat touching account in Maha Vagga , i . 54. In the course of ...
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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.