Buddhism in Tíbet. With an account of the Buddhist systems preceding it in India. With atlas of 20 plates |
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Buddhism in Tíbet. with an Account of the Buddhist Systems Preceding It in ... Emil Schlagintweit No preview available - 2013 |
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adore the Buddha adore the Tathāgata Amitabha ancient Arhat astrologers attained Beng Bhután Bodhisattvas Brahmans brothers Buddhist Burnouf called century ceremonies Ceylon Chapter Chinese Choichong Chortens colour Compare contained Critical diss Csoma Cunningham cycle cyclic animals Dalai Dalai Lama deities Dharanis Dhyani Buddhas doctrine dogma Dorje Dragsheds Eastern Monachism evil spirits existence figures Foe koue Gnári Khórsum gods gyalpo Hímis Hinayana Hodgson images implored India inscription Journ Kanjur king Klaproth Körös Ladák Lamas legends Lhássa Lotus Lungta Mahāyāna Mebas meditation Mém metempsychosis monastery Mongolian Morg mystical Nirvana Nouv objects obtained original padme hum Pallas Pāramitās perfect Buddha Petersb Phurbu Plate prayers priests religion religious rites Sakya Sakyamuni Samvriti Sanskrit Schiefner Schmidt sect sentences Shinje Sikkim sins Srongtsan Gampo Ssanang Ssetsen symbol Tantras Tathāgata temples Tíbet Tibetan Characters Tibetan language translation Tsonkhapa Ueber utter this name Vajrapani Vajrasattva Wassiljew
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Page 23 - On account of ignorance, merit and demerit are produced; on account of merit and demerit, consciousness; on account of consciousness, body and mind; on account of body and mind, the six organs of sense; on account of the six organs of sense, touch (or contact); on account of contact, desire; on account of desire, sensation (of pleasure or pain); on account of sensation, cleaving (or clinging) to existing objects; on account of clinging to existing objects, renewed existence (or reproduction after...
Page 222 - ... sculptures. In reference to the terminology used in the bodily dimensions a few words will be sufficient in explanation. By vertex is to be understood the junction of the principal cranial bones coinciding with the whirl of the hair. The diameter antero-posterior is the line connecting the central part of the forehead with the junction of the head and neck. The distances from the crown of the head to the trochanter, and from the trochanter to the ground, give together the total height of the...
Page 279 - I muet further observe that Csoma was misinformed, when he speaks of the difference between the commencement, of the Chinese and the Indo-Tibetan cycle as one of three years instead of two, saying that " the Tibetans give the designation of first to the fourth year of the Chinese cycle."— I may still draw the attention to another deviation, which is easily made by Europeans when counting the years in the cycles. In calculating the difference between any given year and the first of the respective...
Page 337 - See also about this tope: Cunningham, Prinsep. A description, with drawings, of the ancient stone pillar at Allahabad, called Bhim ten's Gada or Club, with accompanying copies of four inscriptions engraved in different characters upon its surface. Journ. &c. Vol. III., p. 105. See also for other papers on this pillar: Hodgson, Mill, Prinsep, Troyer, Tumour.
Page 298 - ... Khorsum has the form of a square; round a tortoise in the centre are grouped three times the twelve cyclic animals; in the first series each is repeated once, in the two other series they are repeated five times, to constitute the number of sixty. As a curious deviation from the list of the animals given above, I have to mention that, instead of the ox, we meet an elephant. Between the two spaces filled with the animals are traced the 180 compartments, tinted with the colour of the Mebas and...
Page 70 - Huc believes this stranger to have been a European missionary, and connects the resemblance of the religious service in Tibet to the Roman Catholic ritual with the informations which Tsonkhapa might have received from this Roman Catholic priest. We are not yet able to decide the question as to how far Buddhism may have borrowed from Christianity; but the rites of the Buddhists enumerated by the French missionary can for the most part either be traced back to...
Page 101 - We find an account of this glorious region of Amitabha in many religious books.1 Sukhavati is declared to be a large lake, the surface of which is covered with lotus-flowers (Padmas), red and white, with perfumes of rare odour. These flowers form the couches for pious men, whose virtues were the cause of their growth, while yet sojourners upon earth. Such men, after being purified from their sins, soar up into their lotus-flowers. The inhabitants of this paradise are moved to earnest devotion by...
Page 367 - The Mahavansi, the Rajaratnacari, and the Rajavali, forming the sacred and historical books of Ceylon; also a collection of tracts illustrative of the doctrines and literature of Buddhism. Translated from the Singhalese.
Page 100 - Hue and Gabet, had seen some coloured lithographs representing our Saviour Jesus Christ, and various episodes of Bible history. The Lama alleged against the creed of these missionaries, that it does not afford final emancipation. According to the principles of their religion, he said, the pious are rewarded with a re-birth among the servants of the supreme God, when they are obliged to pass an eternity in reciting hymns, psalms, and prayers, in his glory and honour. Such beings, he argued, are consequently...
Page 346 - As. Soc. January, 1836. A Disputation respecting Caste by a Buddhist, in the form of a series of Propositions supposed to be put by a Saiva and refuted by the Disputant. Journ. R. As. Soc., Vol. III. On the extreme resemblance that prevails between many of the Symbols of Buddhism and Saivism.