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Página 20 - CIVILIZATION, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.
Página 32 - ... the belief in a divine power, the acknowledgment of sin, the habit of prayer, the desire to offer sacrifice, and the hope of a future life...
Página 30 - ... conducted sacrifice. And we know that afterwards, in the Brahmanas, this conception was carried to great lengths. So also we have evidence of a mystic power, independent of the gods, in the words, the verses, that accompany the sacrifice. It is no contradiction of this that we find this mystic power itself afterwards deified and becoming, indeed, in the course of centuries of speculation, the highest of the gods.
Página 28 - Veda. It is confirmed by the discovery in later Vedic books, especially in the manuals of domestic rites, of customs and beliefs, that must evidently go back to the Rig Veda period (though not referred to in that collection); and even of one or two such cases that certainly go back to an earlier period still. We have...
Página 30 - ... garment may improve his character. Many of them may be classed under one or other of the various meanings given by anthropologists to the ambiguous and confusing word " magic " : the " magic " of names, or numbers, or propinquity, or likeness. or association. or sympathy, and so on. Many will also be found in the long list of practices from which it is said in the Silas (one of the very earliest of our Buddhist documents, earlier than the Pitakas though incorporated in them) that the Samana Gotama...
Página 30 - ... rendered such austerity possible was originally often regarded as due to the inspiration of a spirit. But it is, so far as I know, never mentioned that the supernormal effects of the austerity were due to the spirit from whom the inspiration came. The effects were due to the austerity itself. Very often indeed there was no question of any deity's help in the determination to carry out the self-torture — just as in the case of the pujaris at the ghats in modern India.
Página 44 - III. 8; Pug. 43. See navanga). — 2. the story of any previous birth of the Buddha, esp. as an animal. In this sense the word is not found in the 4 Nikayas, but it occurs on the Bharhut Tope (say, end of 3rd cent. BC), and is frequent in the Jataka book.
Página 49 - ... viz., calm, lull, cp. nivata. In verbal compn. nis-f-vl (see vayati) refers only to the (non-) emittance of an odour, which could never be used for a meaning of " being exhausted"; moreover, one has to bear in mind that native commentators themselves never thought of explaining nibbana by anything like blowing (vata). but always by nis+vana.
Página 86 - Commentary, Yamaka Commentary (1912). Translation of Ledi Sadaw's Dissertation on the Yamaka (1914). The Earliest Rock Climb (1901). Index to Samyutta (1904).
Página 38 - A. 140. [As the word abhidhamma standing alone* is not found in Sn. or S. or A., and only once or twice in the Dialogues, it probably came into use only towards the end of the period in which the 4 great Nikayas grew up.] -katha discourse on philosophical or psychological matters, MI 214, 218; A. III. 106, 392. See dhammakatha. OGHA [Non-Vedic; Buddh. Sk. ogha, eg, Divy 95 catur-ogh

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