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Buddhist Essays

1908

Now follows the narrative of the conversion of various persons mostly people of high social and intellectual standing and of entire schools of philsophy and therewith the thread of the Buddha's course of life is broken off at least so far as it is given in the Mahavagga a part of the first book of the Pali canon. [...] " At that time " says the Sarhyuttaka Nikaya " at the celebration of Uposatha ' on an evening of the full moon at the annual final assembly of the disciples before the time of wandering began the Exalted One sat surrounded by the company of his disciples in the open air. [...] The first three of these Truths contain the philosophy of the teaching ; the last the morality of the teaching as seen through the spectacles of this philosophy. [...] The consciousness of this added to the facts of birth and death have in the thought of India led"2 4 BUDDHIST ESSAYS I I to the doctrine of the transmigration of the soul. [...] The deed however can only cease when the cause of the deed ceases namely the delight of the senses in objects the attachment to such objects ; hence in the attachment of the senses we have found the source of all sorrow.
philosophy religion
Pages
359
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.146607
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i-vii Paul Dahlke, Bhikkhu Sīlācāra view
I. The Life of the Buddha
1-19 Paul Dahlke, Bhikkhu Sīlācāra view
II. A Brief Survey of the Leading Doctrines of Buddhism
20-38 Paul Dahlke, Bhikkhu Sīlācāra view
III. Some Characteristics of Buddhism
39-63 Paul Dahlke, Bhikkhu Sīlācāra view
IV. Pessimism and Sorrow
64-82 Paul Dahlke, Bhikkhu Sīlācāra view
V. Nibbana
83-100 Paul Dahlke, Bhikkhu Sīlācāra view
VI. God
101-111 Paul Dahlke, Bhikkhu Sīlācāra view
VII. Kamma the Judge of the World
112-129 Paul Dahlke, Bhikkhu Sīlācāra view
VIII. Morality in Buddhism
130-151 Paul Dahlke, Bhikkhu Sīlācāra view
IX. Charity
152-158 Paul Dahlke, Bhikkhu Sīlācāra view
X. Knowledge
159-193 Paul Dahlke, Bhikkhu Sīlācāra view
XI. After Death
194-205 Paul Dahlke, Bhikkhu Sīlācāra view
XII. The Specific in Buddhism
206-216 Paul Dahlke, Bhikkhu Sīlācāra view
XIII. The Law of the Middle Path
217-225 Paul Dahlke, Bhikkhu Sīlācāra view
XIV. Asceticism
226-241 Paul Dahlke, Bhikkhu Sīlācāra view
XV. Women
242-249 Paul Dahlke, Bhikkhu Sīlācāra view
XVI. Beginning and End—the Two Riddles of the World
250-286 Paul Dahlke, Bhikkhu Sīlācāra view
XVII. Miracle
287-295 Paul Dahlke, Bhikkhu Sīlācāra view
XVIII. The Elements
296-314 Paul Dahlke, Bhikkhu Sīlācāra view
XIX. A Brief Survey of the Historical Development of Buddhism
315-348 Paul Dahlke, Bhikkhu Sīlācāra view
XX. The World-Mission of Buddhism
349-352 Paul Dahlke, Bhikkhu Sīlācāra view

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