Great Religions of the WorldHarper & Brothers, 1901 - 300 pagini |
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Pagina 34
... caste . we are entirely unwarranted in supposing the system we now call the caste system to have exist- ed in its present form when Buddha arose , in the sixth century before Christ , in the valley of the Ganges . On the contrary , the ...
... caste . we are entirely unwarranted in supposing the system we now call the caste system to have exist- ed in its present form when Buddha arose , in the sixth century before Christ , in the valley of the Ganges . On the contrary , the ...
Pagina 35
... caste , " the only course then open to any man of sense - that is to say , he strove to influence public opinion ( on which such ob- servances depend ) by a constant inculcation of reasonable views . Thus , in the Amagandha Sut- ta it ...
... caste , " the only course then open to any man of sense - that is to say , he strove to influence public opinion ( on which such ob- servances depend ) by a constant inculcation of reasonable views . Thus , in the Amagandha Sut- ta it ...
Pagina 40
... Caste distinctions were , little by little , built up into a completely organized system . The social suprem- acy of the Brahmins by birth became accepted everywhere as an incontrovertible fact . But the flood of popular superstition ...
... Caste distinctions were , little by little , built up into a completely organized system . The social suprem- acy of the Brahmins by birth became accepted everywhere as an incontrovertible fact . But the flood of popular superstition ...
Pagina 41
... caste is ignored during the festival , and that the very name of the idol is really nothing but a misunderstood ancient epithet - the Pali word ' Jagan - natha ' ( Lord of the World ) -of the great thinker and reformer of India . We ...
... caste is ignored during the festival , and that the very name of the idol is really nothing but a misunderstood ancient epithet - the Pali word ' Jagan - natha ' ( Lord of the World ) -of the great thinker and reformer of India . We ...
Pagina 45
... caste in Japan , a caste devoted almost exclusively to the ancient paganism , the Shinto faith of their ancestors , this activity and zeal of the Buddhists is noteworthy . In China , in this as in other respects , all is silent ; or ...
... caste in Japan , a caste devoted almost exclusively to the ancient paganism , the Shinto faith of their ancestors , this activity and zeal of the Buddhists is noteworthy . In China , in this as in other respects , all is silent ; or ...
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Pagina 289 - And not for them only do I pray, but for them also who through their word shall believe in me ; that they all may be one, as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee ; that they also may be one in us ; that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
Pagina 171 - Then they that gladly received his word were baptized ; and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls ; and they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
Pagina 270 - He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation; for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities — all things were created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
Pagina 270 - Son of his love ; in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins: who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and unto him; and he is before all things, and in him all things consist.
Pagina 53 - It is the spirit of truth in the hearts of believers which cannot rest, unless it manifests itself in thought, word, and deed, which is not satisfied till it has carried its message to every human soul, till what it believes to be the truth is accepted as the truth by all members of the human family.
Pagina 70 - Coast and from our own settlements — cannibalism and human sacrifice and the burial of living infants — disappear at once and for ever. Natives who have hitherto lived in a state of nakedness, or nearly so, begin to dress, and that neatly ; natives who have never washed before begin to wash, and that frequently ; for ablutions are commanded in the Sacred law, and it is an ordinance which does not involve too severe a strain on their natural instincts. The tribal organisation tends to give place...
Pagina 48 - If I were to take the results of my philosophy as the standard of truth, I would be obliged to concede to Buddhism the pre-eminence over the rest. In any case it must be a satisfaction to me to see my teaching in such close agreement with a religion which the majority of men upon the earth hold as their own; for it numbers far more adherents than any other.
Pagina 186 - It will be part of the citizen's daily life : more social than personal, more civic than domestic, more practical than mystical. It will give ample scope to the personal, the domestic, even the mystical side of human nature, within the control of reason and the claims of active duty. Religion will thus mean the guidance of right living by the light of personal and social duty as taught by a systematic Sociology. Its creed will be a synthetic Philosophy, resting on the general body of positive science....
Pagina 300 - The common welfare urgently demands a return to Him from whom we should never have gone astray ; to Him who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, — and this on the part not only of individuals but of society as a whole.
Pagina 128 - Saoshyant and his helpers, when he shall restore the world, which will (thenceforth) never grow old and never die, never decaying and never rotting, ever living and ever increasing, and master of its wish, when the dead will rise, when life and immortality will come, and the world will be restored at its wish...