Chapter 19

314.The bowl was “turned down” in relation to him, and his house became an unlawful resort.—Kullavagga,v.20. 3;Sacred Books of the East,vol.xx.

315.Sir Monier Williams states that though votaries did not confess to monks, the four days were observed by them.—Buddhism,p.84.

316.Oldenberg,Buddha, etc.,p.162 note.

317.Mahavagga,vi.24. 1-6.

318.Kullavagga,vi.1-5;ibid.vi.4. 10.

319.Mahâparanibhâna Sutta,ii.33. 35.

320.1 Corinthiansxiv.

321.“Das Christenthum ist das allerveränderlichste; das ist sein besonderer Ruhm.”—Rothe,Stille Stunden,p.357.

322.Actsxxviii.13; Rom.xv.24; 2 Tim.iv.10; 1 Peteri.1.

323.Greg. Nyss.Op.iii.574.

324.Keim,Rom und Christenthum,p.417.

325.Uhlhorn,Conflict of Christianity,pp.54, 90.

326.Neander,Church History,vol.i.pp.10, 40.

327.Orig.cont. Cels.iii.44-54; Tatian,c.33; Minut. Felix,Octav.8. 12; Tertull.Apolog.37et passim.

328.Newman,Grammar of Assent,pp.460seq.

329.Kullavagga,iv.14. 25; alsoibid.vii.1. 5;Sacred Books of the East,vol.xx.

330.E.Burnouf,Science of Religions,p.288, notes the analogy between Pryadarsi and “a man greatly beloved” in Danielix.23.

331.SeeLotus de la bonne Loi,App.x.p.659seq.: Prinsep’strans.,Jour. Asiat. Soc. Beng.vol.vii.pp.219seq.;Prof.H. H.Wilson’s,vol.xii.ofJour. Asiat. Soc. Beng.pp.153seq.

332.Wheeler,History of India,vol.iii.p.214.

333.T. W.Rhys Davids,Handbook of Buddhism,p.225.

334.Dipavamso,chap.viii.

335.T. W.Rhys Davids,Handbook of Buddhism,p.259.

336.Buddhist Records of the Western World,trans.byProf.Beal,vol.i.; Fo-Kwo-ki,chap.xxii.p.xlix,vol.ii; Hiuen Tsiang,B.vi.pp.13, 14.

337.Lassen,Indische Alterth.vol.ii.p.1078;vol.iv.p.741.

338.Dr. Beal,Buddhism in China,p.61; Dr. Edkins,Chinese Buddhism, Preface,p.i.

339.Buddhism in Tibet,E.Schlagintweit,pp.61-75.

340.Comparative Progress of Ancient and Modern Missions.

341.Dr. Maclear,Gradual Conversion of Europe,pp.6-12.

342.Nouveau Journ. Asiat.pp.106, 137, 139.

343.Dr. Edkins,Chinese Buddhism,pp.84, 207.

344.“It may be safely asserted that no Aryan race, while existing in anything like purity, was ever converted to Buddhism, or could permanently adopt its doctrines.”—Fergusson,Tree and Serpent Worship,p.67. The old Turanian race, far from being savage, or even barbarous, not only laid the basis of Chinese civilisation, but seems to have been also the first civiliser of Western Asia, and the first to spread art and science along the southern coasts of Europe. The Iberian, Etruscan, Phœnician, Hittite, even Egyptian monuments, are now acknowledged to be relics of this mighty race, which must have sent horde after horde over Asia and Europe long before the historic advance westwards in the thirteenth centuryA.D.; its latest invasion of India may have been represented, not by Scythian ancestors of Buddha, but the Sikhs.—Conder, “Early Races of Western Asia,”Journ. Anthrop. Inst.August 1889,pp.30-43.

345.Sir Monier Williams,Buddhism, Introduction; Eitel,Lectures on Buddhism.

346.Sir Monier Williams,Buddhism,pp.114, 156.

347.Wassilief,Le Bouddhisme, etc.,pp.14, 18.

348.Dêvadatta’s Five Points (Kullavagga,vii.3. 14, 15) all insist upon a more ascetic rule than the Sangha practised.

349.Stanley,Eastern Church,pp.45, 50.

350.Turnour, “Pali Bud. Annals,”Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng.vol.vi.p.729; Wassilief,Le Bouddhisme, etc.,p.18.

351.The beginning of the dissensions is related in Kullavaggavii.with much legendary adornment. There too, invii.5, and in Mahavagga,x.1. 6, the distinction is drawn between “dissension” and “schism,” and the woe predicted for the breaker-up of the Sangha when it was at peace: “He is boiled for a kalpa in Niraya, doomed for so long to a penance of misery.” The reconciler of a divided Sangha was made happy for a kalpa in heaven.

352.T. W.Rhys Davids,Handbook of Buddhism,p.182.

353.Beal,Chinese Buddhism,p.101: “a worship of association and memory.”

354.Agni. Indra, Sūrya; Kern,Buddhismus,vol.ii.p.156; Sir Monier Williams,Buddhism,p.175.

355.“A being whose essence (sattva) has become intelligence (bodhu) derived fromself-enlighteningintellect, and who has only once more to pass through human existence before attaining Buddhahood.”—Eitel,Sanskrit-Chinese Dict.,p.26; Sir Monier Williams’Buddhism,p.98.

356.Wassilief,Le Bouddhisme, etc.,pp.124seq.; Burnouf,Le Lotus de la bonne Loi,p.302.

357.Nâgârdjuna, the Nagasēna of the Milindipanha, was the chief representative, if not founder, of one of the Mahāyāna Schools. He has been regarded as a mythical personage, and the name has been supposed to be the generic one of various authors and doctors of the system. For an account of Hināyāna and Mahāyāna doctrine, with its subdivisions, see Wassilief,Le Bouddhisme, etc.,pp.9seq., 118seq.; Schlagintweit,Buddhism in Tibet,pp.19-57. Nâlanda must have been a very important centre in Buddhist times.—Fergusson,Tree and Serpent Worship,p.79.

358.Dr. Edkins says about 190A.D.

359.Burnouf,Introd. à l’histoire du Bud. Ind.vol.i.pp.220, 224 (Paris, 1844); also Burnouf,Le Lotus de la bonne Loi,chap.xxiv.pp.261-268; also AppendixIII.pp.498-511 (Paris, 1852).

360.Müller, Gifford Lectures,Natural Religion,p.543; Dr. Beal,Buddhism in China,p.123; Sir Monier Williams,Buddhism,p.195.

361.Hodgson,Illustrations of the Literature and Religion of the Buddhists,p.30; Burnouf,Introduction, etc.,pp.116-121; also in note atp.118, quoting Hodgson.

362.Though strong affinities exist between Gnosticism and Buddhism, which may indicate later connection, in their origin they appear to have been quite distinct. The methods, aims, and terminology of Gnosticism, all betoken derivation from purely Western sources. It is quite possible that Gnosticism may have given Adi-Buddha to the East, but the question of their relations is still undetermined. See Weber,Hist. Ind. Lit.p.309; Obry’sNirvana, etc.,p.161; Bishop Lightfoot, Essay on the Essenes (Epistle to Colossians),p.157;Home and Foreign Review,vol.iii.pp.143seq.(1863).

363.Sir Monier Williams,Buddhism,p.203; Dr. Beal,Chinese Buddhism,p.128; Dr. Eitel,Lectures,p.98.

364.Kullavagga,v.21. 4;Sacred Books of the East,vol.xx.

365.Introd.§vi.p.558:“La plume se refuse à transcrire des doctrines aussi misérables quant à la forme, qu’odieuses et dégradantes pour le fond.”

366.Âryasanga, founder of the Yôgacharya or contemplative system of Mahāyāna (circa400A.D.). For an account of his doctrine, see Wassilief,Le Boudd.pp.288seq., and Schlagintweit,Bud. in Tibet,pp.39seq., 46seq.; Rhys Davids,Buddhism,p.207seq.

367.A writer in theNineteenth Century, October 1889, professes to describe the testimony of the only reporter who has written of Lhása since Huc and Gabet were expelled from it forty-five years ago. According to this witness, the Church is now actually in grip of the State, though nominally dominant. Of five members of the Council of the Grand Lama four are laymen, superior military officers, with the Regent at their head. Till the Grand Lama is eighteen years of age, the Regent is supreme, and for sixty years, not a single Grand Lama, chosen as an infant, has survived his eighteenth birthday!!

368.Buddhism, however, introduced into Tibet the benefits of the art of writing, the reduction of its language to an alphabet, and grammar; and not only the sacred literature represented by the collection of the Kandjur, but the very miscellaneous literature of the Tandjur. Several of its Buddhist missionaries and the kings who favoured them were really great men. Kublai Khan and the first Lamistic Pope Phags-pa, 1259-94, rendered lasting service to the cause of civilisation. See Köppen’sDie Lamaische Hierarchie und Kirche, beingvol.ii.of his celebrated and most laborious work,Die Religion des Buddha;T. W.Rhys Davids,Art.Lamaism,Encyc. Brit.vol.xiv.; Sir Monier Williams,Buddhism,pp.262-302.

369.The most recent and reliable information as to this perverted form of Buddhism—if it is to be called Buddhism, for it seems to be no more Buddhism than Vandoux worship can be called Christianity—will be found in the works ofT. W.Rhys Davids; Sir Monier Williams,Buddhism; Babu Sarat Chunder Das, “Religious Hist. of Thibet,”Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng.1881;Life and Works of Alex. Csoma de Koros, Th. Duka, Lond. 1885;E.Colborne Baber,Travels and Researches in Western China; Bushell’s “Hist. of Thibet,”Journ.R.A.S.vol.xii. 1878-79.

370.An invocation of Avalôkitês’vara, who is believed to have delivered it to the Tibetans.—Klaproth,Fragments Bouddhiques,p.27; Hodgson,Illustrations,p.171; Charles Loring Brace,Gesta Christi,p.455.

371.Schlagintweit,Buddhism in Tibet,pp.227-272.

372.Chinese Review,vol.xi.p.162; Beal,Buddhism in China,p.233.

373.Once when a heathen asked Hillel to show him the whole Jewish religion in a few words, he replied, “Do not unto others what thou wouldst not should be done unto thee.” Kuenen’sReligion of Israel,p.243 (quotes Talmud, Sabbath, 31a.)

374.See Isaiahxxxii.5, 6. Socrates says inPhaedo, “to use words wrongly and indefinitely is not merely an error in itself; it also creates evil in the soul.” A vast amount of mischief is done by the misapplication of good adjectives to bad subjects. All true reformers, with Confucius, labour for a rectification of names.

375.Shu King, Shi King,Pref.andIntrod.pp.1-27, by Dr. Legge;Sacred Books of the East,vol.iii.

376.Mémoire sur la Vie et les Opinions de Lao-tsze.

377.Translation of the Tâo-teh-King, under the title,Le Livre de la Voie et de la Vertu.

378.μέθοδος, Prof. Douglas,Confucianism and Taoism,p.189.

379.It is very interesting to find, so long before Christianity, and so far from its cradle, this fundamental rule in Christian morals. In the Book of Proverbs its enunciation may have preceded that in the Tao-teh-King in point of time; but its being uttered at the end of the world, along with the “golden rule” of Confucius, prove how essentially one are the moral instincts of humanity.

380.Dr. Legge’s Preface tovol.iii.ofSacred Books of the East,p.xxi; alsoArt.Lao-tsze,Encyc. Brit.vol.xiv.

381.Dr. Edkins,Chinese Buddhism,pp.128, 202; Beal,Introduction to Fa-Hian,p.27.

382.Douglas,Confucianism,p.84; Beal,Buddhism in China,p.235; Edkins,Chinese Buddhism,p.333.

383.In the whole range of the Catacombs no crucifix, and only very few crosses have been found, and these generally in a disguised form. The communion of the early Church was with Christ risen and triumphant; it was only when the spirit and fervour of worship declined that it made so much of the crucifixion.—Northcote and Brownlow’s Abridgment of De Rossi’sRoma Sotterranea; Smith and Cheetham,Dict. of Christian Antiq., Art.Catacombs,pp.294seq.; Witherow,Catacombs,pp.260, 281.

384.The efficiency ofrelic-worshipmay be said to have been established as early as the fourth century. Julian compares the churches to whited sepulchres, full of dead men’s bones. Development ofimage-worshipproceededpari passuwith the erection of fine churches and their adornment with painting and sculpture. There were all along strong protests from individual bishops, and even prohibitions by Councils, but the fashion was too strong for their fulminations. Even in the eighth century the iconoclastic reformation of Leo the Isaurian was too late. His zeal, moreover, was wrongly directed. He assailed high art, and condemned only the truly fine paintings, sparing the ruder and more ancient productions, and leaving untouched the worship of and disgraceful traffic in relics, real and spurious. It is not to be wondered at that in opposition to all this Gregory in the West became the champion of art as an aid to devotion.—Milman,Lat. Christianity,vol.ii.p.152.

385.In protesting against the Mass, the Reformed Churches maintain the universal priesthood, and therefore perpetual sacrifice, of the visible Church. As Christ’s witness on earth, the Church must be always offering itself, in thanksgiving for its own redemption, for the salvation of the world.

386.Fergusson,Tree and Serpent Worship,p.67; Cunningham,Bhilsa Topes,p.130.

387.Dr. Edkins,Chinese Buddhism,p.126; Judgesvi.31.

388.Originally called Bódhitara, but renamed by his teacher Payantara, in token of his religious “insight.” He is said to have brought to China the famous alms-bowl, which all the Buddhas of the Kalpa have used, and will use, and whose final disappearance will indicate that the religion is about to perish. Thus Buddhism has also its San Greal. Bôdiharma is called the “wall-gazing Brahman,” though a Kshatrya, because on his arrival in China he spent nine years in silent meditation.—Eitel,Sanskrit Chinese Dict.p.24.

389.Dr. Edkins,Chinese Buddhism,p.130.

390.Men who have in vain sought God without have happily found Him in the witness of their own conscience and affection, but generally they who conceitedly reject the revelation without them only obscure the seeing faculty within. “When mysticism threw off external authority it went mad, as in the revolutionary pantheism of the Middle Ages. When it incorporated itself more and more in revealed truth, it became a benign power—as on the eve of the Reformation.”—Vaughan,Hours with the Mystics,vol.ii.p.356.

391.“Mysticism,”A.Seth,Encyc. Brit.vol.xvii.pp.129-136.

392.Correctly so, if we are to judge of Mysticism even from its purest phases and its best representatives,e.g.the Quietism of Madame Guyon, the Spiritualism of Swedenborg, the Romanticism ofF.von Hardenberg, better known as Novalis. Even on its speculative or philosophical side, it would not be difficult to cull from the writings of the Cambridge Platonists, and the Idealists of Europe and America, extracts equivalent to the aphorisms of Novalis, that “action is morbid,” “to dream is to overcome,” that “the soul must abandon the actual world if it would discover in the recesses of the mystic night the Queen of Heaven, Eternal Beauty.”—Hymns to Night, Schriften,vol.ii.p.158.

393.Pâtimokkha; Pârâgikâ Dhammâ, 3;Sacred Books of the East,vol.xiii.

394.Beal, Introduction toFa-Hian,p.42. In an important aspect the perversion of Christianity was worse than that of Buddhism. The Buddhist ascetics, though merciless to themselves, never tortured their vanquished opponents. There is no parallel to the Romish Inquisition and some Protestant atrocities in any of the annals of Buddhism.

395.ἡ σωματικὴ γυμνασία, 1 Tim.iv.8.

396.Tylor,Primitive Culture,vol.i.p.440.

397.“Vient enfin le mysticisme de la dernière époque, qui, de même que tous les mysticismes, finit de la manière la plus misérable, et enfante une idolâtrie grossière, ainsi que les stupides pratiques de la sorcellerie”(Laboulaye,Introd.to La Comme’s transl. of Wassilief’sBuddhism,p.xlv). This has often been verified in the religious history of the West, and the fate of many former “spiritual” aspirants to enter or to peer into the Invisible and Unutterable should be a powerful warning to all who are now aiming at surpassing the natural conditions of existence. In endeavouring to transcend humanity, we are likely to fall miserably below it.

398.Chinese Buddhism,pp.370-379.

399.Also Seneca: “We do not love virtue because it gives us pleasure, but it gives us pleasure because we love it.”—De Vit. Beat.c.ix.“In doing good man should be like the vine, producing grapes, and asking for nothing in having done so.”—M.Aurel.v.6 andix.42.

400.Herzog,Encyclop.(Schaff),vol.i.p.334.

401.Eternal Atonement, by Dr.R. D.Hitchcock,p.157.

402.T. W.Rhys Davids, Hibbert Lectures,p.196.

403.Quinet,Le Génie des Religions,p.13.

Transcriber’s Notes:Footnotes have been collected at the end of the text, and are linked for ease of reference.

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