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The Spirit of Buddhism. Being an examination-analytical-explanatory and critical of the life of the founder of Buddhism: His religion and Philosophy its influence upon other religions philosophies and on the ancient and modern social and ethical systems social upheavals and revolutionary movements

1929

The spell of the unchanging East may be inimical to material progress but it furnishes a ready material for the exercise of the imagination the reconstruction of a scene and reproduction of the environment which offer the best bacground for the right appreciation of the drama which portrayed the hollowness of human life and unselfishness as its only panacea. [...] It is called the Unconditional the Abstract the Uncreated the Infinite the Eternal the Formless the Invisible. [...] The hands of the Buctctha are held in front of the breast in the attitude of expounding the law (Dharina-chakra-mudra). [...] The figure standing to the right of the Buddha holding a Chauri " in his right hand and a rosary in his left is the Bodhisattva Maitreya the Messiah of the Buddhists. [...] The wheel in front of the base represents the wheel of the law and the two deer the Deer Park (modern Sarnath).
philosophy religion
Pages
613
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.144865
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i Hari Singh Gour view
Frontmatter
i-xxxi Hari Singh Gour view
Chapter I.General Introduction
1-42 Hari Singh Gour view
Chapter II.India Before Buddhism
43-52 Hari Singh Gour view
Chapter III.Faiths and Pfiilosophy in Buddh’s Time
53-76 Hari Singh Gour view
Chapter IV.Life of Buddh
77-96 Hari Singh Gour view
Chapter V.The Great Rfnunclation
97-108 Hari Singh Gour view
Chapter VI.From Buddhhod to Return Home
109-137 Hari Singh Gour view
Chapter VII.From His Return to the End
138-183 Hari Singh Gour view
Chapter VIII. Legendary Life of Buddh
184-191 Hari Singh Gour view
Chapter IX.Later Developments
192-229 Hari Singh Gour view
Chapter X.Buddhist Mythology
230-238 Hari Singh Gour view
Chapter XI.Rules of the Brotherhood
239-273 Hari Singh Gour view
Chapter XII.The Doctrine of Buddhism
274-311 Hari Singh Gour view
Chapter XIII. The Path to Nirvan
312-338 Hari Singh Gour view
Chapter XIV.The Only Way
339-348 Hari Singh Gour view
Chapter XV.The Secret Doctrine
349-373 Hari Singh Gour view
Chapter XVI.His Precepts and Parables
374-412 Hari Singh Gour view
Chapter XVII. Buddhism and Other Faiths
413-449 Hari Singh Gour view
Chapter XVIII. Buddhism and Christianity
450-462 Hari Singh Gour view
Chapter XIX.Buddhism and Modern Thought
463-498 Hari Singh Gour view
Chapter XX.Buddhism and Modern Progress
499-534 Hari Singh Gour view
Chapter XXI.Buddhism as Tthe Universal Religion
535-545 Hari Singh Gour view
Chapter XXII. The Epilogue
546-554 Hari Singh Gour view
Index
555-i Hari Singh Gour view

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