ISBN: 9780217693585

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1884. Not illustrat… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1884. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... chapter xviii. the future hope: nirvana. So much has been said on the subject of Nirvana, that little can be added to the information we already possess. Dr. Edkins, in a paper written for an Oriental Congress, has given us the following account of a conversation he held with a Buddhist priest sixty years of age, of good repute as a learned scholar, and reported to be the best-read monk in either of the eight monasteries which are found together in one nook of the western hills, ten miles from Peking. Do you think there is a future life or not? We neither say there is or is not. Do not some men at death become sheep, and others, horses? I do not say they will. There is one thing that is really important. It is good conduct, good morality. Virtuous conduct, he added, is the basis of all religion. As for dogmas, they are true for those who accept them. What then of Nirvana, is it death or something different from death? No, he said, it is not death, for it signifies the absence of birth and death. What is your view of the dogma of the non-reality of existing things? Things are proved, he said, to be not real by their destructibility. You burn them, they are reduced to ashes. You say you are an Englishman: you think of England and you are there. There is no reality in your thought. You are deluded if you think there is reality in it. He was very distinct, Dr. Edkins continues, on the point that definite belief is a fault. It is sticking to form. It is cho yii siang was his expression. This is literally sticking to form. The moment you form ideas too pronounced on the existence of a future life, or the Nirvana, or on the non-reality of existing things, you cease to become a consistent Buddhist. This priest belonged to the Lin-tsi branch of ... Samuel Beal, Books, Religion and Spirituality, Buddhism in China Books>Religion and Spirituality This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Society for promoting Christian knowledge in 1884 in 287 pages; Subjects: Buddhism; Buddha and Buddhism; Buddha (The concept); Religion / Buddhism / General; Religion / Buddhism / Rituals & Practice; Religion / Buddhism / Tibetan; Religion / Hinduism / General; Religion / Buddhism / Zen;<

ISBN: 9780217693585

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1884. Not illustrat… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1884. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... chapter xviii. the future hope: nirvana. So much has been said on the subject of Nirvana, that little can be added to the information we already possess. Dr. Edkins, in a paper written for an Oriental Congress, has given us the following account of a conversation he held with a Buddhist priest sixty years of age, of good repute as a learned scholar, and reported to be the best-read monk in either of the eight monasteries which are found together in one nook of the western hills, ten miles from Peking. Do you think there is a future life or not? We neither say there is or is not. Do not some men at death become sheep, and others, horses? I do not say they will. There is one thing that is really important. It is good conduct, good morality. Virtuous conduct, he added, is the basis of all religion. As for dogmas, they are true for those who accept them. What then of Nirvana, is it death or something different from death? No, he said, it is not death, for it signifies the absence of birth and death. What is your view of the dogma of the non-reality of existing things? Things are proved, he said, to be not real by their destructibility. You burn them, they are reduced to ashes. You say you are an Englishman: you think of England and you are there. There is no reality in your thought. You are deluded if you think there is reality in it. He was very distinct, Dr. Edkins continues, on the point that definite belief is a fault. It is sticking to form. It is cho yii siang was his expression. This is literally sticking to form. The moment you form ideas too pronounced on the existence of a future life, or the Nirvana, or on the non-reality of existing things, you cease to become a consistent Buddhist. This priest belonged to the Lin-tsi branch of ... Samuel Beal, Books, Religion and Spirituality, Buddhism in China Books>Religion and Spirituality, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 021769358X

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