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Amitabha 00 - A Story of Buddhist Theology
17.09.2025 12:08
This is a short story set in the first century CE during the height of Buddhism in India. Carus uses the story as a frame to discuss Buddhist...
Amitabha 02 - THE ORDINATION
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Soon after the time of Açoka, the great Buddhist emperor of the third century before Christ, India became the theater of protracted invasions and...
Amitabha 03 - THE GOD PROBLEM
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Buddhism had gained ascendency in India without exterminating the more ancient creeds, and there were many devoutly religious people who had only a...
Amitabha 03 - THE NOVICE
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Charaka the novice lived with his brethren in peace, and his senior, the venerable Subhûti, was proud of his learned disciple, for he was patient,...
Amitabha 04 - KEVADDHA'S STORY
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"There was a priest in Benares, a man of Brahman caste, learned in all the wisdom of the Vedas, not of the common type of priests but an honest...
Amitabha 05 - THE CONFESSION
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The young novice spent his days in study and his nights in doubt. He followed with interest the recitations of his instructor on the philosophy of...
Amitabha 06 - GANDHARA
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As the night was far advanced, the royal messenger allowed his horses a short rest in the Vihâra, and set out with Charaka at an early hour the...
Amitabha 07 - KING KANISHKA
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During the preparations for war against Magadha there came tidings from the Parthian frontier that the troops of Gandhâra had gained a decisive...
Amitabha 08 - MAGADHA
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War is always deplorable, but sometimes it cannot be avoided. And if that be the case, far from shunning it, a ruler, responsible for the welfare of...
Amitabha 09 - AÇVAGHOSHA
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Buddha's birthday was celebrated with greater rejoicing than usual in the year following king Kanishka's invasion, which took place in the fifth...
Amitabha 09 - AMITÂBHA
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One evening when King Kanishka together with his friend Charaka enjoyed the company of Açvaghosha, the youthful ruler of Gandhâra turned to the...
Amitabha 10 - THE CONSPIRACY
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Açvaghosha held daily conversations with Kanishka, in which not only his friends Charaka and the king of Magadha, but also Princess Bhadraçrî, his...
Amitabha 11 - THE MAN-EATING TIGER
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Protestations of fidelity and admiration greeted King Kanishka from all sides when he retired to his private rooms after having shaken hands with the...
Amitabha 12 - THE BUDDHIST ABBOT AND THE BRAHMAN
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While King Kanishka stayed at the summer palace to witness the tiger hunt, a Buddhist abbot came to the royal palace and requested an interview with...
Amitabha 13 - THE PARABLE OF THE ELEPHANT
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Açvaghosha saw that every eye was intent upon him, and so he told the story of the white Elephant. He said:
"There was a noble and mighty...
Amitabha 14 - THE DOUBLE WEDDING
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Charaka found by degrees and not without difficulties his mental equilibrium, which his friend Kanishka seemed to possess naturally. He unburdened...
The Life of Buddha by Andre Ferdinand Herold
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The Life of Buddha
by Andre Ferdinand Herold
[1922]
tr. from the French by Paul C....
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