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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directions which Buddha had declared the right ones; 1530
Never yet so great a miracle as this! the priests shone in the streets of Srâvasti! Tathagata, seeing the divine shelter, with all his holy ones resorted to the place to rest ?; 1531
No followers there to bow in prostrate service, his followers rich in wisdom only. The nobleman reaping his reward, at the end of life ascended up to heaven, 1532
Leaving to sons and grandsons a good foundation, through successive generations, to plough the field of merit. 1533
VARGA 19. INTERVIEW BETWEEN FATHER AND SON. · Buddha in the Magadha country (employing himself in) converting all kinds of unbelievers? (heretics), entirely changed them by the one and self-same law he preached, even as the sun drowns with its brightness all the stars. 1534
Then leaving the city of the five mountains - with the company of his thousand disciples, and with a
1 The expression to rest' may also mean 'to observe the rainy season rest,' if the ordinance of Wass had been enacted at this time.
"I tau,' different persuasions. It was during Buddha's stay near Ragagriha that different rules for the direction of the Order' were framed. See Romantic Legend, p. 340 seq. There is no reference in our text to the stately march of Buddha to Kapilavastu, or of the different messages sent to him, as related by Bigandet, p. 160, and in Hardy's Manual of Buddhism, pp. 198, 199, also Romantic Legend, p. 349.
* Yih-mi-fx, one-taste law.' • That is, Râgagriha; the city surrounded by five mountains.
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