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...Enchanting, powerful, horrific, beautiful, wise, deadly, compassionate, seductive. Women in Buddhist story and image are all these things and more. She takes the signs of the ancient goddess – the lotus, the sacred grove, the serpent, the sacrifice – and uses them in astonishing new ways. Her story is one of sufferi...

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...’s Play 11 Perception, Symbol, Myth 12 On Using Jung 13 The Dhamma of Gender 14 Mythic Fact, Historic Fiction 15 The Other First Bhikkhuni 16 A Buddhist Femme Fatale 17 The Weaving of the Web 18 Fears of the Future 19 The Flood 20 The Serpent 21 The Deepest Taboo 22 How to Kill a Dead Nun 23 A Very Grievous Text 24 The Hero Departs 25 The Hero Wakes 26 The ...

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...The Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta is the most influential scripture in Buddhist meditation. It is the foundation text for the modern schools of ‘vipassanā’ or ‘insight’ meditation. The well-known Pali discourse is, however, only one of many early Buddhist texts that deal with mindfulness. This i...

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...Foreword: The Vipassananāvādā 1 The Meaning of ‘Buddha’ 1.1 The Ambiguity of Tradition 1.2 The Death of Myth 2 The GIST 1​—​Three Strata of Early Texts 2.1 Before the Buddha 2.2 The First Discourses 2.3 The Gāthā Theory 2.4 The Earliest Collection 2.5 The First Abhidhamma 2.6 Some Problems 3 The GIST 2​—​The Agreement of the Three Strata 3.1 The Seeds of the Sa...

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...at schism? Chapter 8 Dharmagupta: the Greek missions 8.1 Dharmaguptaka & ‘Moggallāna’ 8.2 Dhammarakkhita: some other stories 8.3 Dharmaguptaka texts & doctrines Chapter 9 The Mūlasarvāstivādins of Mathura 9.1 Mathura in the Suttas 9.2 Mathura & schism 9.3 Soṇaka & Sāṇaka 9.4 The dragons of Kaśmīr Conclusion Appendix A Chronology Appendix B Asoka & the Fi...

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...th century during the Ming Dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en. The novel is a fictionalized account of the legendary pilgrimage to India of the Buddhist monk Xuanzang, and loosely based its source from the historic text Great Tang Records on the Western Regions and traditional folk tales. The monk travelled to the "Western Regions" during the Tang Dynasty, to obtain ...

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..., those stories took on a life of their own. Eventually the real man is buried under a mountain of beautiful fantasies and magical tales. Scholars in Buddhist studies have never lost sight of the historical Buddha. There is a beautiful story to tell about the real man but the materials never quite made it to the mass market because academic books are generally hard to read...

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...Table of Contents Abbreviations for Pali Canon Texts | i An Author’s Request | ii Foreword | viii Chapter One: Spread of Dhamma to Kosala | 1 Chapter Two: Establishing the Nun Order | 19 Chapter Three: Sangha Quarrels at Kosambi | 37 Chapter Four: Middle Age – Succe...

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...in 3 vols. : James Darmesteter & L. H. Mills. ~, IS, 24, 37, 47. PAHLAVI TEXTS, in 5 vols. : E. W. West. 6, g. THE QUR'AN, in 2 vols. : E. H. Palme... ...g. 10. THE DHAMMAPADA : F. Max Miiller; SUTTA-NIPATA : V. Fausboll. II. BUDDHIST SUTTAS : T. W. Rhys Davids. 12,26,4 1 ,43,44. THE SATAPATHA-BRAHM... ... THE SATAPATHA-BRAHMA~A, in 5 vols. : Julius Eggeling. 13, 17,20. VINAYA TEXTS, in 3 vols. : T . W. Rhys Davids & H ermann Oldenberg. . 19· THE FO... ...ield. 4fl. THE VEDANTA-SUTRAS with Ramanuja's Sribha~ya: G. Thibaut. 49. BUDDHIST MAHAYANA TEXTS: E . B. Cowell, F. Max Milller & J. Takakusu. 50.... ...DANTA-SUTRAS with Ramanuja's Sribha~ya: G. Thibaut. 49. BUDDHIST MAHAYANA TEXTS: E . B. Cowell, F. Max Milller & J. Takakusu. 50. INDEX : M. Winter... ...VOLUMES OF THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST VOL. VOL. VOL. 1 Upanishads. 16 Texts of Confucian- 32 Vedic Hymns. 2 Sacred Laws of ism. 33 Minor Law-Boo... ...Vedic Hymns. 2 Sacred Laws of ism. 33 Minor Law-Books. Aryas. 17 Villaya Texts. 34 Vedlinta-SGtras. 3 Texts of Confucian- 18 Pahlavi Texts. ~:}Mi\... ...2 Atharva ·veda. 10 (ii) Sutta-Nipata. 25 Laws of Manu. 43} Satapatha- 11 Buddhist Suttas. 26 Satapatha- 44 Brahmalla. 12 Satapatha- Brahmana. 45 Ga... ..., and Mohammed, 6, xli sq. ed, 15, Iii n.; quotes Milindapanha, AbbhQ.na, Buddhist t.t., when unlaw- 35, xxvi; 36, xvii. ful, 17, 268 sq., 270 sq., ...

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... also met other saints belonging to other faiths such as Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Yogis, Siddhs, etc. The writings of several saints, which conf... ...as beyond their grasp, the Universe being limitless. According to Semantic texts like Qur’an, there are eighteen thousand worlds but there is only f...

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...ll bring it. Muslims wait for Mahdi, who will present it to us. Hindus and Buddhists wait for Kalki Avatar ... Prophets and clairvoyants vision this K... ... Oneness is, we wished to know WHY Oneness is. So, with the last triad of texts, we started to search for the real reason of God ’s Oneness. And soon... ...he real Bliss. So, “bliss” we shall know through the next three triads of texts level two of our Bliss knowledge. C reation of “bliss”. In ...

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...w.new-life.net/chrtms10.htm http://www.isleofavalon.co.uk/GlastonburyArchive/2000/texts- p3/m22_jeez.html http://www.biblequestions.org/Archives... ...edu/history/classes/Sources/UmmaLagash.ht ml http://www.earth-history.com/Ancient-texts/Sumer/sumer- iinscription-umma-lagash.htm Rigor Mortis ... ... January 28, 1687, following the death of his only and beloved son, became a devout Buddhist. He criminalized the killing of all land animals, and t...

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...nd that out and tell you, nobody else. Not those people who interpret the texts; all that is totally unrelated. Only such a man can talk. And such a... .... They talked of the void. They talked of emptiness. You know, the whole Buddhist philosophy is built on the foundation of that no mind. Yet they ha...

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...Although historically marginalized, Buddhist nuns are taking their place in modern Buddhism. Like the monks, Buddhist nuns live by an ancient system of monastic law, the Vinaya. This work investigates various areas of uncertainty and controversy in how the Vina...

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...Introduction 0.1 The Nature of Vinaya 0.2 Vinaya in Context 0.3 Bhikkhunis in History 0.4 The Vinaya Texts 0.5 Schools 1 A Question of Interpretation 1.1 What can we expect from Vinaya? 1.2 The Scope of Vinaya 1.3 The Layers of Text 1.4 What is a Tradition? 2 Principles to be Respected 2.1 Garudhamma 1 2.2 Garudhamm...

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..., those stories took on a life of their own. Eventually the real man is buried under a mountain of beautiful fantasies and magical tales. Scholars in Buddhist studies have never lost sight of the historical Buddha. There is a beautiful story to tell about the real man but the materials never quite made it to the mass market because academic books are generally hard to read...

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...Abbreviations for Pali Canon texts | i Map | ii Author’s request | iii Foreword | ix Life as a Layman | 1 From Home to Homelessness | 29 Enlightenment: Nibbana! Release! | 55 Legend of the Seven Weeks | 89 Unveiling Dhamma | 119 Spreading Dhamma...

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...permission of Eranos Foundation, Ascona, Switzerland. Edward Conze (tr.), Buddhist Scriptures, Penguin Classics, Harmondsworth, 1959. © Edward Conze,... ...quotations in this book are translations of the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts by the author, as also are quotations from Plato. TABLE OF CONTENTS ... ...f Buddhism Since Gautama The Essence Of Buddhism The Concept Of The Buddha Buddhist Yoga Zen Buddhism And Jung Christianity 59 Origins How Much Does H... ...of India had THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION x been popularized in the West, with Buddhist and Hindu doctrines being widely known—even though for the most pa... ...a prior experience of what they refer to. As examples I would point to the Buddhist teachings of nirvana and karma, and the Christian doctrines of the... ...efs in common. Jews, Christians, Muslims, Parsees, and perhaps the bulk of Buddhists align themselves with this viewpoint. Yet others feel religion to... ...occupation, and the New Testament which consists of writings selected from texts composed by Christians during the first two centuries AD. Details of ... ... RELIGIOUS DIMENSION 68 frequently refers to God as “Father,” and in many texts the specific phrase “son of God” is applied to Jesus. In a Semitic la... ...HRISTIANITY 69 perhaps even inviting interpretation of many New Testament texts, it runs counter to what eventually became the overriding conviction ...

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... to http://www.amtb.org.sg/2/2_10/2_10_1/2_10_1.htm, a link in the Dallas Buddhist Association (http://www.amtb-dba.org/English/index.html), to find... ...aiwan or Singapore websites, where there are plenty of English versions of texts and videos of Buddhism, to request the standard translation. “What ... ...ld fast in my mind. It is not until recent years, when I came across some Buddhist classics, that I began to realize: 1. Everyone has goodluck and b... ...r Zhong Daolong using the traditional “discipline, meditation and wisdom” Buddhist perspective. However, its implementation calls for a new social en... ...e disaster of human beings, and is willing to begin a new life in the pure Buddhist land, he should avoid all temptations (however tempting), such as... ...nable) “In fact, this belief of ‘it is’ is always critical (Buddhism). In Buddhist saying, all such beliefs are created by ourselves.” The point is:...

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... Power of sorcerers 103 * From tradition to belief in development 104 Buddhist religion Buddhism of the village community 107 From local reli... ... of morality that existed in the Christian villages of the past or in the Buddhist communities of this book. Never has so much information and resear... ... before, but today one cannot say that, and such dishonesty is contrary to Buddhist morality. Improvements in the roads and in villagers' community sp... ...ed to adapt to Thai society, they speak the Thai language and also observe Buddhist customs. It is often said that the Chinese immigrants were mostly ... ... calendars, but some have acquired carved teak plaques depicting national (Buddhist) themes and blending in with the style of the carved furniture. A ... ...ved. In the chapel at the cremation site, the monks hold a service, recite texts appropriate to the occasion, and bless the departed. The service ends...

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...roastrians believe in a single God. This is called monotheism. The purist Buddhists would not believe in a special god, but some Buddhist sects do a... ...also made of the Bible, of the works of Josephus and of all other ancient texts. Sometimes it is a question as to whether the authors to which the wr... ...t of Yahweh, God or Allah. And they speak of their experiences just as do Buddhists or Hindus who have united with the oneness of nature. These saint... ... you. Throw in 2/3rds of a billi on Hindus and a third of a billion Buddhists and you have most of the world categorized. The Jews, for all the... ...world. The places of worship like the Greek temples on the Acropolis, the Buddhist shrines at Ankor, the magnificent Christian cathedrals and the in... ...—―Why haven‘t the states of the West adopted the peaceful approach of the Buddhists or the Jains. War would certainly not be an option. But using the... ...cred scriptures of Baha'u'llah of the Bahai faith, and perhaps the ‗ruti‘ texts of Hinduism which were whispered by the wind to Brahmin priests and... ...enice 900 years after the Prophet lived. ―But there are many other texts that are sometimes even more important than the holy scriptures for ... ... -- ―If the Bible was correctly handed down from Moses until the written texts we have first appeared about 2000 years ago, the verb used was ratsa...

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...That the gods are inside of us is something that sacred Hindu and Egyptian texts state explicitly. Homer tells us that primary beauty brings with ... ... perfection instead is for Jews and Christians, or Illumination is for the Buddhists. Its purpose is to develop the human artistic ability to create... ... Homer was not a prophet, he was a poet. The Hindus who created the sacred texts of the Upanishad were also poets. A poet is not a historian and he ... ...e God of the Hebrews and beauty. It is not mentioned. We do not know what Buddhist thought says about the search for beauty. Wisdom is mentioned, b... ... books of Buddha speak of religious teachings that over time became sacred texts, Homer’s poems are not religious texts, they are not sacred to anyo... ...ople appreciate them. They are, however, also books of wisdom, just as the Buddhist texts and the Bible are. I consider my hypotheses as a way to in... ...eciate them. They are, however, also books of wisdom, just as the Buddhist texts and the Bible are. I consider my hypotheses as a way to interpret H... ...inter ... and again spring” A Film by Kim Ki Duk To examine Buddhist thought I won’t use books written on this topic. Instead I will ... ...ng”. This author illustrates the existence of two realities, as seen in Buddhist thought and on the type of interpretation I know how to make of ...

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...iti it was decreed that if Sudras were going to even hear the Vedas (the holy texts of the Brahmins) being uttered, molten lead had to be poured int... ...yar in order to make people realize the idiocy of idol worship. He convened a Buddhist Conference at Erode. In 1954, he left for Burma to attend the... ...st Conference at Erode. In 1954, he left for Burma to attend the World 112 Buddhist Conference where he once again met Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. When ... ...ted: Am I the one doing all this? Or, is it the Brahmins? Observe this. The Buddhists and Jains eradicated the cruelty of Brahmins and said people... ...dia and they teach Vedas, Sastras and the ceremonial recitation of the sacred texts. Tradition and law also accept it. Great men like Jayavelu, Mu... ... Aryan myths—the puranas that is Ramayana, Bharatam, Bhagavata, etc.— as his texts and quotes from these. We dare to think that these slippery pura... ...ruppan, Madan, Madurai Veeran, and Pechi etc. The creation of Hindu religious texts Devaram and Prabandam was only to destroy and ruin the principle... ...endence the security will remain as it is. Muslims, Adi Dravidas, Christians, Buddhists are all Dravidas. Their religion and their religious activit... ...rocess. Because of the Hindu-Muslim riots, the Scheduled Caste Minister, MLA, Buddhist, Jain, Muslim, Christian everyone will become one religion. T...

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...d priests from all religions, including Catholics, Nestorians, Armenians, Buddhists, and Muslims. Kublai Khan‘s reign spawned numerous development... ...lped oversee the Bible project as well as the more profitable printing of texts, such as Latin grammars and papal indulgences (the forgiveness of si... ...ecrets of double-entry bookkeeping. 19 In editing and publishing such texts, moreover, printers passed on to others the lessons they had to lear... ...onks, became immersed in a new culture of capitalism when they took their texts to print shops. Meanwhile, printers‘ connection with ... ...d Carnegie Self-teaching laboratories G.I. Bill of Rights makes college texts affordable US #1 World power 21ST CENTURY Age of Cyberspace Di...

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...d priests from all religions, including Catholics, Nestorians, Armenians, Buddhists, and Muslims. Kublai Khan‘s reign spawned numerous developments ... ...lped oversee the Bible project as well as the more profitable printing of texts, such as Latin grammars and papal indulgences (the forgiveness of si... ... secrets of double-entry bookkeeping. 19 In editing and publishing such texts, moreover, printers passed on to others the lessons they had to lear... ...onks, became immersed in a new culture of capitalism when they took their texts to print shops. Meanwhile, printers‘ connection with the ―divine art... ...d Carnegie Self-teaching laboratories G.I. Bill of Rights makes college texts affordable US #1 World power 21ST CENTURY Age of Cyberspace Di...

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...ositions of power, and preserving untouched and unchanged its sacred obsolete texts. Hiding the fact that the basic principles it preserves have bee... ...ed flags of their rulers in the soil. And by reading certain official sacred texts before a small handful of European witnesses, they suddenly inst... ...European misery was attributed to the secret evils contained in these ancient texts left over from the hated and despised Roman Empire. But then… t... ...d despised Roman Empire. But then… the Church began preserving these ancient texts and copying them down. Not even knowing what they were copying ... ...will fail. If you leave your family at an early age, and study under famous Buddhist sages, and practice Buddhism all your life; you will not beco... ...hist sages, and practice Buddhism all your life; you will not become a famous Buddhist sage. Only one… one token person will ever gain that token ... ...ake voluntary vows of poverty and chastity… and practice voluntary hardship. Buddhist Taoist, Shintoist monks in the East practiced it long before ... ...ual teaching still does not work … then what the fuck is it good for? The Buddhist ethic is based upon pure cynicism. The ultimate achievement o... ...me exact type of insanity. This kind of mental madness has been practiced by Buddhist masters for over 7,000 years. So sitting and staring at noth...

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...e 5 must scientificize the art in this technical century; - impersonal texts personalized; - electrical shock; - translation from the impossible... ...e laugh at them in disregard. I'm ashamed to affirm that I create lyrical texts, I hide them. People neither read nor listen to lyrical texts anymor... ...cognoscible God", who is present without being made known, an echo of the Buddhist paradox of presence-absence grounded by Nâgârjuna. While Hegel (... ...lued paraconsistent system as his First Degree Entailment semantics; The Buddhist logic added a fifth value to the previous ones, ‘none of these’ (c...

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...dedicated the last few months to ploughing through reams of anti-Semitic tracts and texts. Steeped in more or less nauseating verbal insanity and sh... ...ligious law, or any other widely accepted law - says is a crime. Legal systems and texts often conflict. Murderous blood feuds are legitimate accor... ...were perfectly in accord with a literal interpretation of certain divinely-inspired texts, millennial scriptures, apocalyptic thought systems, and ... ...up to 4000 print pages). The user gains access to libraries containing hundreds of texts, adapted to be downloaded, stored and read by the specific... ... evidence the real conditions of existence. This is a "symptomatic reading" of TWO TEXTS: "It divulges the undivulged event in the text that it rea... ...o similar to "paramartha satya" (the "ultimate truth") in the Madhyamika school of Buddhist thought. The ultimate truth cannot be expressed verball...

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...dedicated the last few months to ploughing through reams of anti-Semitic tracts and texts. Steeped in more or less nauseating verbal insanity and sh... ...ligious law, or any other widely accepted law - says is a crime. Legal systems and texts often conflict. Murderous blood feuds are legitimate accor... ...were perfectly in accord with a literal interpretation of certain divinely-inspired texts, millennial scriptures, apocalyptic thought systems, and ... ...up to 4000 print pages). The user gains access to libraries containing hundreds of texts, adapted to be downloaded, stored and read by the specific... ... evidence the real conditions of existence. This is a "symptomatic reading" of TWO TEXTS: "It divulges the undivulged event in the text that it rea... ...o similar to "paramartha satya" (the "ultimate truth") in the Madhyamika school of Buddhist thought. The ultimate truth cannot be expressed verball...

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...ependence Museum; mountain climbing; free English lessons, and visits to his Buddhist temple and congregation. Soon Sang Huin was spending every night... ...ng a drama of an ancient Korean period linked with reverberating melancholic Buddhist melodies. Toward 6 o'clock, he was still there--and for his exce... ...riptures or some dogmatic premises that were also claimed as infallible, the Buddhist and the Moslem were threats for an American Christian no less th... ...m it. Daydreaming is one of many defense mechanisms not listed in psychology texts. It's used by children when old things like Recla don't know how t... ...e vanquished from the kingdom. They refused to stand outside begging like a Buddhist mendicant at 6:00 a.m. in Laos. They were the making of a more ... ...o revive him with a real personality. Michael was not inclined to befriend a Buddhist this lifelessly innocuous and bereft of money and status so she ...

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... halted amazed. In the entrance hall stood the larger figures of the Greco Buddhist sculptures done, savants know how long since, by forgotten workmen... ...s and slabs crowded with figures that had encrusted the brick walls of the Buddhist stupas and viharas of the North Country and now, dug up and labell... ... few in the world who still have the secret of the conventional brush pen Buddhist pictures which are, as it were, half written and half drawn. But t... ... Buddha, but, borne by his own thoughts, slid into Tibetan and long droned texts from a Chinese book of the Buddha’s life. The gentle, toler ant folk... ...id Father Victor, when he had talked without a break for ten minutes. ‘His Buddhist friend has levanted after taking my name and address. I can’t quit... ... ’ He paused, with a puzzled smile. ‘What am I? Mussalman, Hindu, Jain, or Buddhist? That is a hard knot.’ ‘Thou art beyond question an unbeliever, an... ...t they recognized the big hat, the clicking rosary, and the rare Chi nese texts for great authority; and they respected the man beneath the hat. ‘We ... ...nd all needs.’ And so he petted and comforted Kim with wise saws and grave texts on that little understood beast, our Body, who, being but a delusion,... ... shifted thee and lifted thee and slapped and twisted thy ten toes to find texts flung at my head? Somewhere a mother must have borne thee to break he...

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...considerable freedom, but Origen is already hope- lessly in the net of the texts. The writer of St. John’s gospel was a free man, but Origen was a sup... ...at he speaks of as renascent or modern religion; he is neither atheist nor Buddhist nor Mohammedan nor Chris- tian. He will make no pretence, therefor... ...monstrated by a free use of miracles. Only one great religious system, the Buddhist, seems to have resisted the temptation to secure for its divinity ... ...e at last extinct. If that is not the very “resignation” he imputes to the Buddhist I do not know what it is. He believes that an individual which has...

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...eternally against that Being of silence and darkness beyond the stars. The Buddhists made the Lord Buddha the leader of men out of the futility and co... ...les.” Old Likeman began to speak and had a fit of coughing. “Some of these texts—whuff, whuff—like a conjuror’s hat— whuff—make ‘em—fit anything.” A m... ...these brief dicta with- out serious exertion, he found them very congenial texts, but there were insuperable difficulties in the problem why Likeman s... ...tle Testament to verify them. After some slight trouble he located the two texts. The first, from Philippians, ran in the old version, “He that hath b... ...come apart from the great world of faith, Catholic, Islamic, Brahministic, Buddhistic, that grows now to a common consciousness of the near Advent of ...

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...A collection of essays on the Hindu/Buddhist view of humankind's place in the universe. As the author says in his introduction: in these papers, it may be hoped, western readers will have an opportunity of coming into touch with the ancient spirit of India as r...

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...—”Cosmic conscious- 8 The V arieties of Religious Experience ness”— Yoga— Buddhistic mysticism— Sufism— Christian mystics— Their sense of revelation—... ..., who follows the con- ventional observances of his country, whether it be Buddhist, Christian, or Mohammedan. His religion has been made for him by o... ...urse, the Buddha himself stands in place of a God; but in strict- ness the Buddhistic system is atheistic. Modern tran- scendental idealism, Emersonia... ...riences. The sort of appeal that Emersonian optimism, on the one hand, and Buddhistic pessimism, on the other, make to the individual and the son of r... ...uality of preciousness to those which we shall erelong see that Ilrahmans, Buddhists, Christians, Mohammedans, twice-born people whose religion is non... ...victim of verbal automatisms, both motor and sen- sory. These were usually texts of Scripture which, [80] My extracts are from the French translation ... ...asive and powerful 161 William James that if I had not clung to scripture-texts like ‘The eter- nal God is my refuge,’ etc., ‘Come unto me, all ye th... ... have been even slower. For years together he was alternately haunted with texts of Scripture, now up and now down, but at last with an ever growing r... ...nd overpowering impressions of the meaning of suddenly presented scripture texts, the melting emotions and tumultuous affections con- nected with the ...

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... to be sure.” “And why live? The Schopenhauers, the Hartmanns, and all the Buddhists, say that the greatest happiness is Nir- vana, Non-Life; and they... ... great and dangerous intimacy between a man and a woman under certain pre- texts. One must make himself the laughing stock of ev- erybody, if he desir...

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...ple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away,—means, teach- ers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into the pre... ...d, or Jeremiah, or Paul. We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts, on a few lives. We are like children who repeat by rote the sentence... ...t additional incident in the plot, rises naturally into poetry. Among many texts take the following. The Roman Martius has conquered Ath- ens,—all but... ...r the surface of the water. But this is flat rebellion. Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in ev- ery ...

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... Home, where one might meet one’s friends, and in learning by heart Slavonic texts with the priest. This was a lofty, mysterious religion connected wi... ...II — Chapter 18 767 What relation to this revelation have the beliefs of the Buddhists, Mohammedans, who preached and did good too! It seemed to him t... ... called the church. Well, but the Jews, the Mohammedans, the Confucians, the Buddhists—what of them?” he put to himself the question he had feared to ...