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The popular life of Buddha, containing an answer to the 'Hibbert lectures' of 1881 [Lectures on the origin and growth of religion, as illustrated by ... of Indian Buddhism, by T.W. Rhys Davids]
Arthur Lillie
Paperback. RareBooksClub.com 2012-05-10.
ISBN 9781231229705
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...the various heretical faiths sustained by hypocrisy and fraud, which unravelled the doctrinal issue of the sixty-two heterodox sects, and shook the earth together with its ten thousand component parts." When Ananda had explained all about this Sutra, the earth rocked. "All the thirteen Sutras, " says the narrative, "were then rehearsed in the prescribed forms."1 1 Tumour, Journ. Beng. As. Soc, vol. vi. p. 521. I shall show by-and-by that the Brahmajala Sutra is the chief armoury of Dr. Rhys Davids. From it he has derived his "original Buddhism, " the "Buddhism of the Little Vehicle." From it, too, he has derived his notion that Buddha denied the existence of the "soul" and of "anything of any sort that exists in any manner after death." The doctor is evidently not aware that the Brahmajala Sutra was a prominent work of the Great Vehicle. This is made patent by the Chinese books.1 It is called Fan Kang. As its special object, according to Buddhaghosa, was to triumph over heterodox sects (who believed in soul and a future life), it is highly probable that it really was made a prominent book at the convocation which, under Kaniska, first made official the teachings of the "Carriage that drives to the Great Nowhere." Fa Hian fully supports his brother pilgrim, Hwen Thsang. He says, very positively, that the disciples of the Little Vehicle worshipped the saints of the past, Kasyapa, Sakya Muni, Ananda, Sariputra, etc. He says, as explicitly, that the disciples of the Great Vehicle worshipped the Bodhisatwas, Manjusri, and Avalokitesvara.2 In a storm, when leaving Ceylon, the worthy pilgrim sent up a prayer to this last being, and the ship escaped. Dr. Rhys Davids confesses that the " A
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