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 ... Western Ascetics, and a Review of the Monastic System |
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... ancient city of Anuradhapura , in Ceylon , A. D. 420. In this interval there was ample space for the invention of the absurd legends that are inserted therein relative to Budha and his immediate disciples , as we may learn from the ...
... ancient city of Anuradhapura , in Ceylon , A. D. 420. In this interval there was ample space for the invention of the absurd legends that are inserted therein relative to Budha and his immediate disciples , as we may learn from the ...
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... ancient church . By the Chinese the word is written Cha men and Sang men , and is said by Klaproth to mean " celui qui restreint ses pensées , ou celui qui s'efforce et se re- streint . " It is probable that the epithet Samanean , as ...
... ancient church . By the Chinese the word is written Cha men and Sang men , and is said by Klaproth to mean " celui qui restreint ses pensées , ou celui qui s'efforce et se re- streint . " It is probable that the epithet Samanean , as ...
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... ancient , venerable . When any one embraced the priesthood he was said to be prawarjika , from wraja , to abandon , one who has abandoned the world , answering to a name of the ancient monks , àπoražaμevoi , apotactates , re- nouncers ...
... ancient , venerable . When any one embraced the priesthood he was said to be prawarjika , from wraja , to abandon , one who has abandoned the world , answering to a name of the ancient monks , àπoražaμevoi , apotactates , re- nouncers ...
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... ancient Saxon word , in use before the introduction of Christianity ; and if we look away from its original meaning to its conventional use , it may represent the sacerdos of the Latins , the iɛpevç of the Greeks , the of the Hebrews ...
... ancient Saxon word , in use before the introduction of Christianity ; and if we look away from its original meaning to its conventional use , it may represent the sacerdos of the Latins , the iɛpevç of the Greeks , the of the Hebrews ...
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... ancients of the west is presented ; individual speculation is almost entirely discountenanced , and the bare reading . of the record too commonly usurps the place of hortatory teaching . The apostle Paul tells us that the priest is ...
... ancients of the west is presented ; individual speculation is almost entirely discountenanced , and the bare reading . of the record too commonly usurps the place of hortatory teaching . The apostle Paul tells us that the priest is ...
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abbot afterwards Alban Butler allowed alms alms-bowl Ananda ancient Anuradhapura appear ascetic asceticism attained nirwana become bhikshu birth bó-tree body Brahmans Budhists called cause ceived Ceylon church cloth colour dágoba death declared déwas dhyána disciples earth enter 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 monarch monastery monastic monks Nágaséna nimitta nirwána novice observed offering Pali pass paths 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