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The Maha-Bodhi and the United Buddhist World May 1923

1923

By him these relics of the Holy one were enshrined in the Bodhisattva chapel at the Dharmarajika stupa in the district of Tanuva at Takshasila for the bestowal of perfect health upon the great king king of kings the divine Kushana for the veneration of all Buddhas for the veneration of the private Buddhas for the veneration of Arhats. [...] Bengal was a thorough going Buddhist country during the period when the kings of the Pala dynasty reigned but with the extinction of that dynasty and owing to the persecutions of the Sena line of kings and of the invasion of the country by Musulman invaders both Buddhism and Brahmanism received a set back ; and the religion of love and purity of the Tathagata ceased to exist but not before Ben [...] From the time of theREVIEW 195 subjugation of Bengal by the Musulman invaders until the time of the annexation of the country by the British the history of Bengal and also of the Gangetic valley is a veritable blank During the Moslem period India forgot its Aryan history and institutions and was forced to accept the ur-aryan Semitic traditions of Arabia making the people to become Musulmanized in [...] The supremely patriotic duty of peretrat;ng into the long neglected realms of the past history of India has been undertaken by the author of the work under notice and it is a pleasure to think that at last a scion of a noble family has appeared who has the capacity and the means to accomplish the noble work of rescuing the long lost literature of the land sacred to the Buddhists. [...] the cause of the perennial series of misery in existence.""I98 THE MAHA-BODH1 AND THE UNITED BUDDHIST WORLD to make the book and the Purpose of the students to hear its contents.
philosophy religion
Pages
46
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120309
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
161-161 unknown view
Home is not Home
161-161 H. W. B. Moreno view
Indolgy
162-166 Sylvain D.Litt view
Lord Ronaldshay and Buddha’s Relic
166-168 unknown view
Bodhidharma or the Wisdom-Religion
169-178 Alice Cleather view
Some Excavations and Discoveries
178-187 unknown view
One Religion for the World
187-189 Sheo Narain view
Buddhist Sites in Bengal
189-191 unknown view
The Buddha Society Bombay
191-193 unknown view
Review
194-196 unknown view
Nyaya-Vindu with Dharmottaracharyya’s Commentary
197-200 unknown view

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