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... character to have been ascribed to him then , if they had not taken place ; so that if it was openly declared by his contemporaries , by those who had lived with him in the same monastery , that he had been repeatedly visited by Sekra ...
... character to have been ascribed to him then , if they had not taken place ; so that if it was openly declared by his contemporaries , by those who had lived with him in the same monastery , that he had been repeatedly visited by Sekra ...
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... character that there can be no mistake about the place of their birth . There are other things that tend to throw suspicion on the authority of the Pitakas . Among these I may reckon as one of the most prominent , the number of the ...
... character that there can be no mistake about the place of their birth . There are other things that tend to throw suspicion on the authority of the Pitakas . Among these I may reckon as one of the most prominent , the number of the ...
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... character as necessarily to involve the rejection of the Pitakas as the rule of faith . We are told that , in the first century after Buddha there were no sects formed ; but this statement is disproved by the names of some of the ...
... character as necessarily to involve the rejection of the Pitakas as the rule of faith . We are told that , in the first century after Buddha there were no sects formed ; but this statement is disproved by the names of some of the ...
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... character ; thus , charity is inculcated , not by the command ' to give , ' but by the prohibition ' to take , ' save when the gift be offered as alms . " - Schlagintweit's Buddhism in Tibet . the folly of what he was doing , and ...
... character ; thus , charity is inculcated , not by the command ' to give , ' but by the prohibition ' to take , ' save when the gift be offered as alms . " - Schlagintweit's Buddhism in Tibet . the folly of what he was doing , and ...
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... ) These sentences might have been written expressly to illus- trate the origin and character of Buddhism , so true are they to its principles and teachings . loathsome ; when he had marked well the way in xlii INTRODUCTION .
... ) These sentences might have been written expressly to illus- trate the origin and character of Buddhism , so true are they to its principles and teachings . loathsome ; when he had marked well the way in xlii INTRODUCTION .
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Page 175 - Behold, I shew you a mystery ; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump ; for the trumpet shall sound ; and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is...
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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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