Word: buddha
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Story of Buddha," a metrical translation of the Sacred Books, is one of the best pieces in this number. Not only is the matter itself interesting. but the translator has also, by his happy choice of words, added to its beauty. The lines...
Thus would that blessed state of idleness which is the state of the Gods, be encouraged in our midst. O, The happy Nirvana of Buddha, the negation to live of Schopenhauer, be made easy to us infantile pupils in Phil...
...course in Literature at Tokio University which corresponds to the courses in liberal arts in American colleges, the doctrines of Buddha constitute part of the prescribed studies. Since the revolution, however, few of the students has accepted the Buddhist doctrines, and most of them attend the lectures and recitations solely because they are compelled to. Nine-tenths of the students are radical freethinkers, and nearly one-tenth Christians. The works of Mill, Darwin, Buckle, Lecky, Huxley and Herbert Spencer are far better known than the Bible or the Buddhist works. [Cornell...