Eastern Monachism: an Account of the Origin, Laws, Discipline, Sacred Writings, Mysterious Rites, Religious Ceremonies, and Present Circumstances, of the Order of Mendicants Founded by Gótama Budha, (compiled from Singhalese MSS. and Other Original Sources of Information); with Comparative Notices of the Usages and Institutions of the Western Ascetics, and a Review of the Monastic System |
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... recluse , preparatory to his reception of the supreme Budhaship . Five days after his birth he received the name of Sidhártta , but he is more commonly known by the name of Sákya or Gótama , both of which are patronymics . When five ...
... recluse , preparatory to his reception of the supreme Budhaship . Five days after his birth he received the name of Sidhártta , but he is more commonly known by the name of Sákya or Gótama , both of which are patronymics . When five ...
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... recluse . In the forest of Uruwela he remained six years , passing through a course of ascetic discipline ; but as the austerities he practised led to no beneficial result , he reduced his daily allowance of food to a pepperpod , or ...
... recluse . In the forest of Uruwela he remained six years , passing through a course of ascetic discipline ; but as the austerities he practised led to no beneficial result , he reduced his daily allowance of food to a pepperpod , or ...
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... recluse ; but the name is not to be taken in its modern acceptation , as implying a state of degradation . The bar to admission does not arise from the inferiority of the condition , as even the outcast is received ; but as the peculium ...
... recluse ; but the name is not to be taken in its modern acceptation , as implying a state of degradation . The bar to admission does not arise from the inferiority of the condition , as even the outcast is received ; but as the peculium ...
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... recluse has to reflect that by the step he has taken he has sent the barbed arrow into the heart of an affectionate mother , or stricken to premature age a father whose eye is ever filled with the gushing tear , as he looks around upon ...
... recluse has to reflect that by the step he has taken he has sent the barbed arrow into the heart of an affectionate mother , or stricken to premature age a father whose eye is ever filled with the gushing tear , as he looks around upon ...
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... recluse , he may at first , and in his youth , be charmed by the honour he receives , so as to be more than reconciled to his situation ; and should there be , at a subsequent period , a painful sense of the constraint under which he ...
... recluse , he may at first , and in his youth , be charmed by the honour he receives , so as to be more than reconciled to his situation ; and should there be , at a subsequent period , a painful sense of the constraint under which he ...
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abbot afterwards Alban Butler allowed alms alms-bowl Ananda ancient Anuradhapura appear ascetic asceticism attained nirwána become bhikshu birth bó-tree body Brahmans Budhists called cause ceived Ceylon church cloth colour dágoba death declared déwas dhyána disciples earth enter Evesham evil desire exercise existence feet forest four garments give given Gótama Budha India kalpas kasina kind king live Maha manner means meditation mendicant merit Méru Milinda mind mode Moggaliputta-tissa monastery monastic monks Nágaséna nimitta novice observed offering Pali pass paths Pátimokkhan performed persons Pitakas possession precepts present priest priestess priesthood priests of Budha principal professed rahat Rajagaha Rathapála received recluse regarded relics religion residence robe sacred sage samádhi sangha Sanskrit seen similar Singhalese sorrow sramana stanzas superior supposed supreme Budha Sútra temple things thought tion tree truth village Vishnu whilst wihára Winaya Wisudhi Margga Sanné word worship