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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CONTENTS.
CHAP.
PAGE 17. Reasons for the exposure of corpses . . . . 38 18. How the corpse and bones are to be disposed of . . 43 19. Whether departed souls can see Adharmazd and Aharman 20. Where the souls of the righteous and wicked go . 46 21. The Daitih peak, the Kinvad bridge, and the two paths
of departed souls . . . . 22. Whether the spirits are distressed when a righteous man dies 50 23. How the life departs from the body .
I . 51 24. Where a righteous soul stays for the first three nights
after death, and what it does next . . . . 53 25. Where a wicked soul stays for the first three nights after
death, and what it does next. . . . 55 26. The nature of heaven and its pleasures . 27. The nature of hell and its punishments . . . . 57 28. Why ceremonies in honour of Srôsh are performed for
the three days after a death . . . . . 58 29. Why Srôsh must be reverenced separately from other angels 60 30. Why three sacred cakes are consecrated at dawn after the
third night from a death . . . . . . 61 31. How a righteous soul goes to heaven, and what it finds
and does there . . . . . . . 63 32. How a wicked soul goes to hell, and what it finds and
suffers there . . . . . . . . 70 33. The position and subdivisions of hell . . . . 34. The two ways from the Dâîtih peak ; that of the righteous
to heaven, and that of the wicked to hell. . . 76 35. The continuance of mankind in the world till the resur
rection . . . . . . . . . 76 v 36. The preparers of the renovation of the universe , . 77 37. The contest of the good and evil spirits from the creation
till the resurrection, and the condition of creation after
the resurrection . . . . . . . 80 38. The effect of doing more good works than are necessary
for attaining to the supreme heaven. . . . 120 39. Reasons for wearing the sacred thread-girdle . . . 122 40. On the sacred shirt and thread-girdle, grace before and
after eating, and cleansing the mouth before the after
grace . . . . . . . . . 133 41. The sin of apostasy, and how to atone for it . . 136 42. The good works of him who saves others from apostasy 139
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