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Author: Eugene Watson Burlingame
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Category : Buddhist legends
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Twenty-six stories selected from the author's larger work, Buddhist parables.
Author: Eugene Watson Burlingame
Publisher:
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Category : Buddhist legends
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Book Description
Twenty-six stories selected from the author's larger work, Buddhist parables.
Author: Eugene Watson Burlingame
Publisher:
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Category : Buddhist legends
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Twenty-six stories selected from the author's larger work, Buddhist parables.
Author: Eugene Watson Burlingame
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Category : Buddhist legends
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Author: Eugene Watson Burlingame
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465548645
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
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THESE stories are said to have been related by Gotama Buddha for the purpose of conveying to his hearers moral and religious lessons and the lessons of common sense. Gotama Buddha was born nearly twenty-five centuries ago in the city of Kapila, in Northeast India. Kapila was the principal city of the Sakya tribe, and his father was king of the tribe. Gotama was his family name. Buddhameans Awakened or Enlightened, that is to say, awakened or enlightened to the cause and the cure of human suffering. The Buddhist Scriptures tell us that when Gotama was born, the angels rejoiced and sang. An aged wise man inquired: “Why doth the company of angels rejoice?” They replied: “He that shall become Buddha is born in the village of the Sakyas for the welfare and happiness of mankind; therefore are we joyful and exceeding glad.” The wise man hastened to the king’s house, and said: “Where is the child? I, too, wish to see him.” They showed him the child. When he saw the child, he rejoiced and was exceeding glad. And he took him in his arms, and said: “Without an equal is he! foremost among men!” Then, because he was an old man, and knew that he was soon to die, he became sorrowful and wept tears. Said the Sakyas: “Will any harm come to the child?” “No,” replied the wise man, “this child shall one day become Buddha; out of love and pity for mankind he shall set in motion the Wheel of Religion; far and wide shall his religion be spread. But as for me, I have not long to live; before these things shall come to pass, death will be upon me. Therefore am I stricken with woe, overwhelmed with sorrow, afflicted with grief.” Seven days after Gotama was born, his mother died, and he was brought up by his aunt and step-mother. When he was nineteen years old, he married his own cousin. For ten years he lived a life of ease, in the enjoyment of all the comforts and luxuries which riches and high position could give him. When he was twenty-nine years old, a change came over him.
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Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Author: Blair Hurley
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393651606
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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A spellbinding confession of what it means to abandon one life for another, The Devoted asks what it takes, and what you’ll sacrifice, to find enlightenment. Nicole Hennessy’s life revolves around her Zen practice at the Boston Zendo, seeking solace in the tenets of Buddhism to the chagrin of her Irish Catholic family. After a decade of grueling spiritual practice under her Master’s tutelage, living on a shoestring budget as a shop clerk, Nicole has become dangerously entangled with her mentor. As Nicole confronts her past—a drug-fueled year spent fleeing her family’s loaded silences and guilt-laden "Our Fathers"—and reinvents herself in New York City, her Master’s intoxicating voice pursues her, an electrifying whisper on the other end of the phone. Somehow, he knows everything. In deft, soaring prose that bristles with psychological and erotic tension, Blair Hurley crafts a thrilling exploration of Nicole’s ecstatic quest for spirituality.
Author: British Museum. Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts
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Category : Pali literature
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Author: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 850
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Has appendices.
Author: Clifford Smyth
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 946
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Category : Catalogs, Publishers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1694
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