The Saddharma-pundarîka, Or, The Lotus of the True Law

Coperta unu
Scribner's, 1901 - 454 pagini

Din interiorul cărții

Termeni și expresii frecvente

Pasaje populare

Pagina 129 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Pagina 129 - Kassapa, as if a potter made different vessels out of the same clay. Some of these pots are to contain sugar, others rice, others curds and milk; others still are vessels of impurity. There is no diversity in the clay used; the diversity of the pots is only due to the moulding hands of the potter who shapes them for the various uses that circumstances may require.
Pagina 125 - For the depraved as for those who observe the rules of good conduct; for those who hold sectarian views and unsound tenets as for those whose views are sound and correct. 26. I preach the law to the inferior (in mental culture) as well as to persons of superior understanding and extraordinary faculties ; inaccessible to weariness, I spread in season the rain of the law. 27. After hearing me, each according to his faculty, the several beings find their determined place in various situations, amongst...
Pagina 300 - The Tathagata, who so long ago was perfectly enlightened, is unlimited in the duration of his life; he is everlasting. Without being extinct, the Tathagata makes a show of extinction, on behalf of those who have to be educated.
Pagina 377 - Buddhas4 equal to the sands of the Ganges in those worlds all shouted their applause, (and exclaimed) : Well done, well done, young man of good family, that is the real heroism which the Boddhisattvas Mahasattvas should develop ; that is the real worship of the Tathagata, the real worship of the law.
Pagina 54 - I reveal the law in its multifariousness with regard to the inclinations and dispositions of creatures. I use different means to rouse each according to his own character. Such is the might of my knowledge.
Pagina 213 - Dharmaparyaya; who by that book shall feel veneration for the Tathagatas, treat them with the respect due to Masters, honour, revere, worship them; who shall worship that book with flowers, incense, perfumed garlands, ointment, powder, clothes, umbrellas, flags, banners, music, &c., and with acts of reverence such as bowing and joining hands...
Pagina 188 - Sramanas, and for the sake of protecting the six classes of lives they observed, blamed, repented, confessed, and did penance according to their sins. On a bed of Kusa-grass they rejected all food, and their bodies dried up by the last mortification of the flesh, which is to end in death.
Pagina 258 - ... the ideas, the thoughts of their minds, the food, doings, desires, the open and secret deeds of all the living beings in the whole world; he the Arhat, for whom there is no secret, knew and saw all conditions of all living beings in the world, what they thought, spoke, or did at any moment.
Pagina 415 - Gina., on springing into existence by apparitional birth, are sitting in the undefiled cups of lotuses. 32. And the Chief Amitabha himself is seated on a throne in the pure and nice cup of a lotus, and shines as the 6"ala-king 4.

Informații bibliografice