Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 12. köideCambridge University Press for the Royal Asiatic Society, 1880 Most years contain the Proceedings and Annual report of the society. |
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Page 53 - He hath filled the hungry with good things ; and the rich He hath sent empty away. He hath holpen His servant Israel, in remembrance of His mercy ; as He spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.
Page 588 - Studies on the Comparative Grammar of the Semitic Languages, with Special Reference to Assyrian. By Paul Haupt. The Oldest Semitic Verb-Form.— Arab Metrology. II.
Page 165 - Tathagata, and having heard it, shall keep it in mind, and with thoughts undisturbed shall keep it in mind for one, two, three, four, five, six or seven nights, — when that son or daughter of a family comes to die, then that Amitayus, the Tathagata, surrounded by an assembly of disciples and followed by a host of Bodhisattvas, will stand before them at their hour of death, and they will depart this life with tranquil minds.
Page 545 - Nirvana, which means simply going out, extinction; it being quite clear, from what has gone before, that this cannot be the extinction of a soul ? // is the extinction of that sinful, grasping condition of mind and heart, which would otherwise, according to the great mystery of Karma, be the cause of renewed individual existence.
Page 165 - ... comes to die, then that Amitayus, the Tathagata, surrounded by an assembly of disciples and followed by a host of Bodhisattvas, will stand before them at their hour of death, and they will depart this life with tranquil minds. After their death they will be born in the world Sukhavati, in the Buddha country of the same Amitayus, the Tathagata.
Page 173 - belonging merely to the present life,' and the intention of the writer seems to be to inculcate the doctrine of the Mahayana, that salvation can be obtained by mere repetitions of the name of Amitabha, in direct opposition to the original doctrine of Buddha, that as a man soweth, so he reapeth. Buddha would have taught that the kusalamula, the root or the stock of good works performed in this world (avaramatraka), will bear fruit in the next, while here ' vain repetitions
Page 129 - Ajanta, and published them in the fifth volume of this Journal. Mr. Bird, in 1847, published some others in his " Historical Researches on the Origin and Principles of the Buddha and Jaina Religions ;
Page 174 - Buddhism, tried very hard to establish a distinction between the Vaipulya or developed Sutras, and what he calls the simple Sutras. Now, the Vaipulya Sutras may all belong to the Mahayana school, but that would not prove that all the Sutras of the Mahayana school are Vaipulya or developed Sutras. The name of simple Sutra, in opposition to the.Vaipulya or developed Sutras, is not recognised by the Buddhistsjthemselves ; it is really an invention of Burnouf 's.
Page 537 - A sanction is given to those who, because they have suffered outrages, have taken up arms ; and verily, God is well able to succour them : Those who have been driven forth from their homes wrongfully, only because they say
Page 165 - Buddha-country of the Tathagata Amitayus as purified Bodhisattvas, never to return again and bound by one birth only, of those Bodhisattvas also...