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The life or legend of Gaudama, the Buddha of the Burmese, volume 2

The life or legend of Gaudama, the Buddha of the Burmese, volume 2

by Paul Ambroise Bigandet

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Author
Bigandet, Paul Ambroise, 1813-1894
Title
The Life or Legend of Gaudama, the Buddha of the Burmese (Volume II)
Credits
Produced by ellinora, Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Language
English
LoC Class
BL: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Religion: General, Miscellaneous and Atheism
Subject
Gautama Buddha
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 59673
Release Date
June 3, 2019
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.CONTENTS. — LEGEND OF THE BURMESE BUDDHA CALLED GAUDAMA. — CHAPTER I.
  2. 2.CHAPTER II.
  3. 3.CHAPTER III.
  4. 4.CHAPTER IV.
  5. 5.CHAPTER V.
  6. 6.AN ABSTRACT OF A FEW SMALL DZATS, AND OF TWO PRINCIPAL ONES, CALLED NEMI AND DZANECKA. — THE FOX AND THE LION. — THE JACKAL AND THE HUNTER. — THE PIGEON AND THE HUNTER. — NEMI. — DZANECKA. — REMARKS ON THE SITES AND NAMES OF THE PRINCIPAL PLACES MENTIONED IN THE LEGEND. — THE SEVEN WAYS TO NEIBBAN. — ARTICLE I. OF THE PRECEPTS. — ARTICLE II. OF MEDITATION AND ITS VARIOUS DEGREES. — ARTICLE III. OF THE NATURE OF BEINGS. — ARTICLE IV. OF THE CAUSE OF THE FORM [51] AND OF THE NAME, OR OF MATTER AND SPIRIT. — ARTICLE V. OF THE TRUE MEGGAS OR WAYS TO PERFECTION. — ARTICLE VI. OF THE PROGRESS IN PERFECT SCIENCE. — NOTICE ON THE PHONGYIES, OR BUDDHIST MONKS, SOMETIMES CALLED TALAPOINS. [53] — ARTICLE I. A SHORT PARALLEL BETWEEN THE BRAHMINICAL AND THE BUDDHISTIC RELIGIOUS ORDERS. — ARTICLE II. NATURE OF THE RELIGIOUS ORDER OF PHONGYIES. — ARTICLE III. HIERARCHY OF THE ORDER. — ARTICLE IV. ORDINATION, OR CEREMONIES OBSERVED AT THE ADMISSION INTO THE SOCIETY. — ARTICLE V. RULES OF THE ORDER. — ARTICLE VI. OCCUPATIONS OF THE BUDDHIST MONKS. — ARTICLE VII. RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE OF THE PHONGYIES—RESPECT AND VENERATION PAID TO THEM BY THE LAITY. — ADDENDA. — ON THE WORD “NAT.” — FOOTNOTES

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