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... records rather than to set them aside , I have been compelled to doubt whether we have evidence which can be called historical for the centuries before B.C. 260 , and to assign to the era of Asoka an immense importance , as that in ...
... records rather than to set them aside , I have been compelled to doubt whether we have evidence which can be called historical for the centuries before B.C. 260 , and to assign to the era of Asoka an immense importance , as that in ...
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... records may be trusted , it was carried direct from India , but at the earlier date ( to Ceylon ) from an India in which Buddhism was still but little altered from its primitive form ; 3 at the later 1 The Southern Buddhism may be ...
... records may be trusted , it was carried direct from India , but at the earlier date ( to Ceylon ) from an India in which Buddhism was still but little altered from its primitive form ; 3 at the later 1 The Southern Buddhism may be ...
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... records from the beginning onward , and the system exhibited by the oldest books of the Pitakas . The points which characterise the Northern Buddhism , in distinction from the Buddhism of the Pitakas , have never existed in Ceylon.1 But ...
... records from the beginning onward , and the system exhibited by the oldest books of the Pitakas . The points which characterise the Northern Buddhism , in distinction from the Buddhism of the Pitakas , have never existed in Ceylon.1 But ...
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... record the history of Buddhism in India . up to Asoka's time , thenceforward leave India to continue that history in Ceylon . Such light as there is comes from a very different quarter . The Scythians , who swept over North - west India ...
... record the history of Buddhism in India . up to Asoka's time , thenceforward leave India to continue that history in Ceylon . Such light as there is comes from a very different quarter . The Scythians , who swept over North - west India ...
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... this period , part was , no doubt , the record from actual memory of what Gotama had said and done ; a larger in 1 Mahâparinibbâna Sutta , p . 112 . part was the composition , by generations of his followers GENERAL HISTORICAL SKETCH 23.
... this period , part was , no doubt , the record from actual memory of what Gotama had said and done ; a larger in 1 Mahâparinibbâna Sutta , p . 112 . part was the composition , by generations of his followers GENERAL HISTORICAL SKETCH 23.
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