Text of Confucianism Part 02

SR No.: 007676
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Legge
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1882
Total Pages: 2405
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 43 MB

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FO-SHO-HING-TSAN-KING.
III, 14.
As being fit to accept the righteous law; but now they both were dead. Then next he thought of the five men, that they were fit to hear the first sermon. 1196
Bent then on this design to preach Nirvana?, as the sun's glory bursts thro' the darkness, so went he on towards Benares, the place where dwelt the ancient Rishis; 1197
With eyes as gentle as the ox king's, his pace as firm and even as the lion's, because he would convert the world he went on towards the Kasi ? city; 1198
Step by step, like the king of beasts, did he advance watchfully through the grove of wisdom (Uruvilva wood). 1199
Varga 15. TURNING THE LAW-WHEELS Tathagata piously composed and silent, radiant with glory, shedding light around, with unmatched dignity advanced alone, as if surrounded by a crowd of followers. 1200
Beside the way he encountered a young Brahman“, whose name was Upaka"; struck with the
1 To preach the law of perfect quietude (quiet extinction; that is, quietness or rest, resulting from the extinction of sorrow).
. That is, Benares.
. Concerning this expression, which means 'establishing the dominion of truth,' see Childers, Pali Dict., sub voce pavatteti.
A Brahmakarin, a religious student, one who was practising a life of purity.
o Called 'Upagana' by Burnouf (Introd. p. 389), and in the Lalita Vistara an Agivaka (hermit), (Foucaux, 378). For some useful remarks on this person's character, see Études Buddhiques (Leon Féer), pp. 15, 16, 17.
So I construe"kih ki;' it means taken by,' or 'attracted by'
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