| Asia - 1836 - 624 pages
...: " ' Of all things proceeding from cause, the cause is Tathagata;' or, with the additional word, ' Of all things proceeding from cause ; the cause of their procession hath the Tathagata explained." To complete the dogma, according to the inscription, we must add, ' The great Sramana hath likewise... | |
| Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1856 - 896 pages
...of dfiarmd.'1 Thus interpreting dharma, he considers the literal rendering of the dogma to be : — '"Of all things proceeding from cause; the cause of...procession hath the Tathagata explained. The great Sramana hath likewise declared the cause of the extinction of all things,' — or, as construed with the help... | |
| Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1856 - 542 pages
...of dharmtt.'1 Thus interpreting dliarmd, he considers the literal rendering of the dogma to be: — "'Of all things proceeding from cause; the cause of...procession hath the Tathagata explained. The great Sramana hath likewise declared the cause of the extinction of all things,' — or, as construed with the help... | |
| Christianity - 1872 - 606 pages
...great end of Buddhist piety. An ancient formula discovered on images and in books declares, that " Of all things proceeding from cause, the cause of...likewise declared the cause of the extinction of all things." Whether this formula refers to the Nidanas, or only to the four Truths, it is evident that... | |
| John Russell Amberley (viscount) - Religions - 1876 - 534 pages
...supplement to them. A very ancient formula, discovered not only in books but on images, declares that, " Of all things proceeding from cause, the cause of...procession hath the Tathagata explained. The great Sramnna has likeB UDDHIST ME TA PHYSICS. 143 wise declared the cause of the extinction of all things."... | |
| John Russell Amberley (viscount) - Religions - 1876 - 536 pages
...supplement to them. A very ancient formula, discovered not only in books but on images, declares that, " Of all things proceeding from cause, the cause of their procession hath the Tatbagata explained. The great Sramana has likewise declared the cause of the extinction of all things."... | |
| John Russell Amberley (viscount) - Faith - 1877 - 790 pages
...supplement to them. A very ancient formula, discovered not only in books but on images, declares that, " Of all things proceeding from cause, the cause of...likewise declared the cause of the extinction of all thing'." Whether this formula refers to the four truths, or to the Nidanas, it is impossible to say.... | |
| Charles Staniland Wake - Ethics - 1878 - 542 pages
...formulated, found on ancient Buddhist images, and now recited as a kind of confession of faith : — " Of all things proceeding from cause, the cause of...likewise declared the cause of the extinction of all things." I0p. cit., p. 15. Tathagata and Sramana are epithets of Sakyamuni, the latter apparently expressing... | |
| Jules Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire - Buddha (The concept) - 1914 - 390 pages
...monks constantly repeat it, and it is written on the pedestal of most of the images of the Buddha: ' Of all things proceeding from cause, the cause of...likewise declared the cause of the extinction of all things V The things or effects are suffering and the present life, caused by past sins ; the cause... | |
| Emil Schlagintweit - 1863 - 478 pages
...added here these eight classes of the path, which are suggested to him already in very early Sutras.i The theory of the four truths has been formulated...of the extinction of all things."2 Tathagatha and i Concerning the four truths see: Csoma "Notices," in As. Res., Vol. XX., pp. 294, 303; Burnoufs "Introduction,"... | |
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