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... Mahindo , who introduced Buddhism into the island in 307 B.C. There was thus an interval of more than 200 years , during which the sacred canon , according to the Buddhists them- selves , was preserved in the memory alone . It was trans ...
... Mahindo , who introduced Buddhism into the island in 307 B.C. There was thus an interval of more than 200 years , during which the sacred canon , according to the Buddhists them- selves , was preserved in the memory alone . It was trans ...
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... is away from the province of history , and we must pitch our tents in dreamland before we can receive it as true . As Mahindo is said to have translated the Pitakas into the vernacular Singhalese , we may suppose Xxxviii INTRODUCTION .
... is away from the province of history , and we must pitch our tents in dreamland before we can receive it as true . As Mahindo is said to have translated the Pitakas into the vernacular Singhalese , we may suppose Xxxviii INTRODUCTION .
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... Mahindo , son of the then reign- ing monarch of India , B.C. 307 , who came through the air , with six other persons , " instantaneously , " and alighted at Mihintalla , near Anuradhapura ; and that not long after * We learn from a ...
... Mahindo , son of the then reign- ing monarch of India , B.C. 307 , who came through the air , with six other persons , " instantaneously , " and alighted at Mihintalla , near Anuradhapura ; and that not long after * We learn from a ...
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... Mahindo to have retained in his memory the whole of the Text and the Commen- taries , would have been almost as great a miracle as the mode by which he is said to have reached Ceylon . If Mahindo brought any part of the Pitakas , he ...
... Mahindo to have retained in his memory the whole of the Text and the Commen- taries , would have been almost as great a miracle as the mode by which he is said to have reached Ceylon . If Mahindo brought any part of the Pitakas , he ...
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... Mahindo . We learn from the Mahawanso that in the year 432 A.D. , nearly a thousand years after the death of Buddha , a Hindu priest , Réwato , was the means of the conversion of a Brahman , called Buddhaghóso , " the voice of Buddha ...
... Mahindo . We learn from the Mahawanso that in the year 432 A.D. , nearly a thousand years after the death of Buddha , a Hindu priest , Réwato , was the means of the conversion of a Brahman , called Buddhaghóso , " the voice of Buddha ...
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Page 67 - The profoundly wise priests had heretofore orally perpetuated the Pali Pitakattaya and its ArthakathS (commentaries). At this period these priests, foreseeing the perdition of the people (from the perversions of the true doctrines) assembled ; and in order that the religion might endure for ages, recorded the same in...
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