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Abhidharma according alms Ananda ascetic Asoka attained Atthakatha B. H. Hodgson believe Bhagavat Bimbisāra Bodhimanda Bodhisatwa Brahmans Buddha Buddhist Buddhist faith Buddhist priests Burnouf called cause Ceylon China Chinese pilgrim Christian convent Council death disciples doctrine Edict existence Fa-Hian give gods Hiouen Hiouen-Thsang honour human hundred idea India island Kapilavastu king kingdom learned legend less Little Vehicle Magadha Mahānāma Mahavansa Maitreya Master meditation Memoirs mendicants mentions monks moral Moreover Nālanda never Nirvana novice palace Pāli pious Piyadasi possess present prince Rājagriha reached received reign relics religion religious remained Revata robe sacred books Ṣākya-muni salvation Sanskrit sects seventh century Siddhartha Sinhala Sinhalese priests Spence Hardy Sramana Stanislas Julien statue stūpas Sūtras Tathāgata teaching thēra thou thousand Thsang translated transmigration travelled tree truth Turnour Tushita Vaiṣāli venerated vihāras Vinaya virtue whole wisdom worship writings
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Page 326 - I go for refuge to the Buddha. " ' I go for refuge to the Law. " ' I go for refuge to the Order.
Page 98 - Of all things proceeding from cause, the cause of their procession hath the Tathagata explained. The great Sramana has likewise declared the cause of the extinction of all things."2 Tathagatha and 1 Concerning the four truths see: Csoma" Notices," in As. Res., Vol. XX., pp. 294, 303; Burnoufs "Introduction,
Page 331 - ... if he is a human being, a man, and a freeman; if he is out of debt; if he is free from the king's service ; if he has the consent of his parents; if he has attained the age of twenty years ; and if he is provided with the priestly requisites. He is then asked his own name, and the name of his upadya (the priest by whom he is presented for ordination). These things being ascertained, the moderator commands him to advance; and the candidate, addressing...
Page 383 - Lord," inquired the sovereign, " Of what religion was the deity of felicitous advent ? " Each, according to his own faith, propounded the ' ' sassata," and other creeds (as the religion of Buddha).
Page 99 - It is difficult to comprehend how men not assisted by revelation could have soared so high and approached so near to the truth. * * * Besides the five great commandments not to kill, not to steal...
Page 99 - To cease from all wrong-doing, To get virtue, To cleanse one's own heart, — This is the religion of the Buddhas.
Page 198 - without the sincerity of your faith, and the energy of your prayers,. you would not have obtained such a miracle.' The history of superstitions is full of such hallucinations ;. and over-excited imaginations,like that of Hiouen-Thsang, are too ready to receive them, if circumstances permit. The countries the pilgrim travelled through have at all times been given up to the wildest dreams, and when he sees the traces of the Buddha's footsteps, on a large stone on the north bank of the Subhavastu...
Page 375 - Mahakassapa was, at that time, the chief. This high priest having performed the funeral obsequies over the body and sacred relics of the divine teacher ; and being desirous of perpetuating his doctrines for ever, on the seventh day after the lord of the universe, gifted with the ten powers, had demised ; recollecting the silly declaration of the priest...
Page 238 - India is bounded by a great sea ; on the north it is protected by snowy mountains (Himalayas). It is broad at the north and narrow in the south; its shape is like that of a half-moon.' It would have been more correct had he said : 'the shape of a triangle.
Page 220 - HioucnThsang hastened thither to complete his pious mission. Twelve monks were allotted to him, well versed in the explanations of the holy books and the treatises of the Great and Little Vehicle, to revise the translations, correct the style, and write out fair copies under his dictation ; these monks had been carefully chosen from amongst the most talented in the principal convents of the neighbourhood.