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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 114 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=7mm, Gew.=177gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of t… More...

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 114 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=7mm, Gew.=177gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IV. SENTENCES OF SCRIPTURE. AVIONG so many words afloat ascribed to the saint, it is impossible to tell what are authentically his, but there is one portion of the Buddhistic Canon, a little book called the Dhammapadam, or Footprints of the Law, whose sentences are considered with great probability to be from his lips. It was found in Ceylon not many years since, written in the Pali language (the Pali was the popular language of Magadha), and was published, with Latin translation, by Doctor Fausboll, at Copenhagen, in 1855. Portions of it were also rendered into English by D. J. Gogerly, a missionary (in the Ceylon Friend, 1840, ), "The Buddhist scriptures seem to have been written ? the main portions of them at least ? originally both in Sanscrit (which in the time of Buddha and probably one or two hundred years before him had ceased to le a spoken language) and in Pali. The originals of the texts which are held by the Thibetans and Chinese are nearly all in .the former, the originals in possession of the Singhalese, Birmese, etc., are in the latter. Consult Burnouf, Inlrod. pp. 15, 16; Koeppen, I., p. 186. and the whole has recently appeared in English, from the accomplished pen of Prof. Max Mliller. The inculcations in that book are of the noblest; there is trace of the morbid element, of disparagement and renunciation, such as one finds in all Buddhism, but there are exalted views of duty, ethical precepts that fall not below the New Testament standard. We give here some of them as samples, only adding that those who wish to find more must refer to the little volume itself. The rendering is taken mostly from Fausboll or Max Miiller, in a few instances, from Gogerly. 1. Mind is the root; actions proceed from the mind. If any one speak or act from a corrupt mind...<

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Charles De Berard Mills, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books, , The-Indian-Saint-Or-Buddha-And-Buddhism~~Charles-De-Berard-Mills, 999999999, The Indian Saint; Or, Buddha And Buddhism, Charles De Berard Mills, 145888399X, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

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