Word: sutra
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...Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics at Oxford University. He has done yeoman service to Hindu philosophy and religion, and has contributed a great deal to the study of religion in general. Among his early works are two volumes on Indian philosophy, and his latest writing is The Brahma Sutra--The Philosophy of Spiritual Life (Harper 1960). His interpretations and criticisms of both Western and Hindu thought are fresh, distinctive, and stimulating...
...month. After living and intermarrying for centuries with the Hindus, Bene Israelites practice many Hindu customs. Most of them eat no beef, in observance of the Hindu prohibition against slaughtering cattle. They break the bangles of a widow when her husband dies, and remove from her neck the mangal sutra (auspicious thread) of black beads that a Hindu wife wears while her husband is alive...
...Buddhist Sutra...
Eighty-four thousand copies of the same sutra, he says, were printed by order of Prince Ch'ien Su, of the Kingdom of Wu-yueh, and deposited in the cavities, made in the bricks user to build the pagoda on West Lake, Hangchow, which in later centuries became to be known as the Lai-Fung Pagoda. Tourists call it the Red Pagoda because of its color...
...structure collapsed, and of the 84,000 copies of the sutra preserved in the bricks, a few hundred were found in still fairly good condition after nearly ten centuries of burial. Only a few other specimens found in Jaman and in Tun-huang are older than these...