Buddhism: Its Historical, Theoretical and Popular Aspects. In Three LecturesLane, Crawford & Company, 1884 - 145 pages |
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Buddhism: Its Historical, Theoretical and Popular Aspects: in Three Lectures Ernest John 1838-1908 Eitel No preview available - 2021 |
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abstract Adi-Buddha ancient appeared Atheism Avalokiteshvara Bôdhisattvas Brahmanism Buddhist canon Buddhist Church Buddhist countries Buddhist dogma Buddhist literature Buddhist morality Buddhist or Tauist Buddhist priests Buddhist religion Buddhist scriptures Burmah and Siam called Cashmere Central Asia century Ceylon Chinese Buddhism Chinese Government Christian Church of China common death deity Dharma dhism dhist disciples divine earth Eastern Asia Emperor evil faith forms of existence hand heaven hell hierarchy human idea India individual influence Kwannon Kwanyin Lama lecture legends living lotos flower Mahayana Mahayana School Manichæan metempsychosis misery modern monasteries monasticism mystic natural Nirvâna Northern Buddhists origin paradise philosophy popular prayer present day priesthood produced reborn religious ritual sacred Samgha Sanskrit sentient Shakyamuni Buddha Shakyamuni Gâutama Buddha Shivaism Singhalese soul Southern spiritual system of morality Tantra Tantra School teaching temple Tibet Tibetan Buddhism tion tradition transmigration Trimurti trinity Triratna truth Tsongkhaba universe whilst whole
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Page 61 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies ; — Hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Page 114 - ... said to his disciple Ananda: " Anauda, when I am gone, you must not think there is no Buddha; the discourses I have delivered, and the precepts I have enjoined, must be my successors, or representatives, and be to you as Buddha."3 89.
Page 27 - Of the latter, not a single ancient manuscript has withstood the ravages of time, nor has any copy of an ancient Buddhist text ever been examined critically by either friend or foe in the searching manner in which all the codices of the New Testament have been tested.
Page 21 - Buddha. At the same time Cabulistan, Gandhara, Cashmere and Nepaul were brought under the influence of Buddhism, and thenceforth every caravan of traders, that left India for Central Asia, was accompanied by Buddhist missionaries. In this way it happened, that as early as 250 BC a number of 18 Buddhist emissaries reached China, where they are held in remembrance to the present day, their images occupying a conspicuous place in every larger temple.
Page 91 - Brahmanism and the wild orgies of nature worship. But this repose is that of a weary wanderer, who is withheld from the prosecution of God's work on this earth by his utter despair of the triumph of justice and truth in actual life.
Page 35 - it took Buddhism three hundred years before it obtained official recognition, and many centuries more before the mass of the people were influenced by it " ; it took the powerful organisation of the Roman Church quite as long to reach its present figures.
Page 34 - Eitel, in concluding his discussion of this point in his ' Lecture on Buddhism, an Event in History,' says: 'It is not too much to say that most Chinese are theoretically Confucianists, but emotionally Buddhists or Taoists. But fairness requires us to add that, though the mass of the people are more or less influenced by Buddhist doctrines, yet the people, as a whole, have no respect for the Buddhist church, and habitually sneer at Buddhist priests.
Page 121 - On the surface of the water there are beautiful lotos-flowers floating, each as large as a carriage-wheel, displaying the most dazzling colours, and dispersing the most fragrant aroma. There are also beautiful birds there, which make delicious enchanting music, and at every breath of wind the very trees on which these birds are resting join in the chorus, shaking their leaves in trembling accords of sweetest harmony...
Page 16 - Buddha, it can be proved, that almost every single tint of this Christian colouring, which Buddhist tradition gives to the life of Buddha, is of comparatively modern origin. There is not a single Buddhist manuscript in existence which could vie, in antiquity and undoubted authenticity, with the oldest codices of the gospels.