Charlotte Krause her Life and Literature

SR No.: 001785
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shreeprakash Pandey
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith
Publication Year: 1999
Total Pages: 674
Language: English, Hindi, Gujarati
Classification: Book_English, Biography, & Articles
File Size: 11 MB

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Dr. Charlotte Krause : Her Life & Literature
from the nakedness of their monks. Gośāla Mankhaliputta, as the Jainas call him, or, according to the Buddhists, ‘Makkhaliputta', was their famous teacher in the sixth century B.C. As his predecessors, Nanda Vaccha and Kissa Sankicha are named by the Buddhists, whereas Jaina tradition says that he had a pupil of Mahāvīra, for six years.
In contradistinction to all the Non-vedic Darśanas treated before, the Ājivika system believes in metempsychosis, and in another world. It knows of 3000 Hells, of regions of demons and of Piśācas, and of Heavens. The souls are divided into six categories of different 'Colour', which seem to correspond to the six Leśyās to Jaina philosophy. Man is said to pass through seven stages of development, before reaching Mokşa. In the first period, that of the first seven days, the individual is able to remember its former experiences in a dim way, weeping in the remembrance of former sufferings, and smiling while remembering its former joys. The last stage is that of the passionless, omniscient ascetic. Salvation promises boundless happiness.
The Ājivikas deny the freedom of will, and, therewith, all personal responsibility for one's actions, since they believe everything to depend on Niyati, the necessity resulting from Karma. This is why they consider good and evil as worthy of praise and condemnation not per se, but only relatively, with reference to their producing good or bad Karma. Perfection is to be aimed at only as an instrument of Salvation. 2. Buddhism
Buddhism had to undergo a stranger and more vivid inner development and a more eventful history than any other of the Indian philosophical systems. It claims the noble shape of Gautama Buddha or Śākya Muni, the 'Tathāgata', not as its founder, but as its last great promulgator. The history of his life, which is fixed around 550 B.C., is well-known to all educated people today. And so are his chief teachings.