The Dhammapada: A Collection of Verses : Being One of the Canonical Books of the BuddhistsFriedrich Max Müller |
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... mind . Considering that the account of Mahâsena's reign , the first of the Seven Kings , terminates in the middle of a chapter , at verse 48 , while the whole chapter is called the Sattarâgiko , ' the chapter of the Seven Kings , ' he ...
... mind . Considering that the account of Mahâsena's reign , the first of the Seven Kings , terminates in the middle of a chapter , at verse 48 , while the whole chapter is called the Sattarâgiko , ' the chapter of the Seven Kings , ' he ...
Page xvii
... mind , and has certainly proved a stumbling- block to myself . Turnour thought that the author of the commentary on the Mahâvamsa , the Vamsatthappakâsinî , was the same as the author of the Mahâvamsa , viz . Mahâ- nâma . The date of ...
... mind , and has certainly proved a stumbling- block to myself . Turnour thought that the author of the commentary on the Mahâvamsa , the Vamsatthappakâsinî , was the same as the author of the Mahâvamsa , viz . Mahâ- nâma . The date of ...
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... mind nothing shows so well the historical character both of the Kullavagga and of Buddhaghosa in the Introduc- tion to his commentary on the Digha - nikâya , as that the former , in its account of the First Council , should know only of ...
... mind nothing shows so well the historical character both of the Kullavagga and of Buddhaghosa in the Introduc- tion to his commentary on the Digha - nikâya , as that the former , in its account of the First Council , should know only of ...
Page xxxvii
... mind in dealing with early Buddhist history , but which , for the present at least , admit of no definite solution . The same remark seems to me to apply to the calcula- tions of another eminent Sanskrit scholar , Professor Kern 2 . He ...
... mind in dealing with early Buddhist history , but which , for the present at least , admit of no definite solution . The same remark seems to me to apply to the calcula- tions of another eminent Sanskrit scholar , Professor Kern 2 . He ...
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... mind all dates beyond Kandragupta are as yet purely tentative , resting far more on a chronological theory than on actual tradition ; and though I do not doubt the historical character of the Council of Vaisâlî , I look upon the date ...
... mind all dates beyond Kandragupta are as yet purely tentative , resting far more on a chronological theory than on actual tradition ; and though I do not doubt the historical character of the Council of Vaisâlî , I look upon the date ...
Common terms and phrases
Abhidhamma Agita amongst Arhat ask thee Asoka assembly of Bhikkhus attributes still remain bestow oblations Bhagavat dwelt Bhikkhu leaves birth Brâh Buddha Buddhaghosa Buddhist Burnouf cause of loss Childers cloth Comp conquered death delight Dhamma Dhammapada Dîpavamsa dispute doubt Dyad Dyad duly Edition ended evil existence Extra fcap Fausböll fool free from desire fruits one fruit further shore Gatila gods gone hell houseless Keniya king Kosala let one know let one wander let the Brâhmana living Magadha Mahâvamsa Mâra Master further spoke mind Muni Nirvâna offer origin of pain outcast overcome Pâli Paribbâgaka passion phassa rhinoceros Sabhiya Sakyas Samana Samana Gotama Sanskrit Sela sensual pleasures sexual intercourse snake quits stanzas Sugata Sundarikabhâradvâga tassa Tathagata tell things thou art thoughtful tion Tipitaka translation truth understanding upadhi venerable Gotama verse Vinaya virtue and holy wander rightly Whosoever wise words world perfect knowledge worn out skin Yakkha
Popular passages
Page 3 - All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts.
Page 42 - Looking for the maker of this tabernacle, I shall have to run through a course of many births, so long as I do not find (him); and painful is birth again and again. But now, maker of the tabernacle, thou hast been seen; thou shalt not make up this tabernacle again. All thy rafters are broken, thy ridge-pole is sundered; the mind, approaching the Eternal (visankhara, nirvana), has attained to the extinction of all desires.
Page 47 - Look upon the world as a bubble, look upon it as a mirage : the king of death does not see him who thus looks down upon the world.
Page 9 - EARNESTNESS is the path of immortality (Nirvana), thoughtlessness the path of death. Those who are in earnest do not die, those who are thoughtless are as if dead already.
Page 5 - For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule.
Page 60 - Let a wise man blow off the impurities of his self, as a smith blows off the impurities of silver, one by one, little by little, and from time to time.
Page 44 - Men who have not observed proper discipline, and have not gained wealth in their youth, perish like old herons in a lake without fish.
Page 45 - Self is the lord of self, who else could be the lord? With self well subdued, a man finds a lord such as few can find.
Page 66 - Muni, and is a Muni thereby; he who in this world weighs both sides is called a Muni.
Page 21 - Old English Drama. Marlowe's Tragical History of Dr. Faustus, and Greene's Honourable History of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. Edited by AW Ward, MA, Professor of History and English Literature in Owens College, Manchester.