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| The Servants of the British Raj who Discovered India's Lost Religion | ||
| 作者 | Allen, Charles |
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| 出處題名 | The Middle Way: Journal of the Buddhist Society |
| 卷期 | v.78 n.4 |
| 出版日期 | 2004.02 |
| 頁次 | 240 |
| 出版者 | The Buddhist Society |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.thebuddhistsociety.org/ |
| 出版地 | London, England, UK [倫敦, 英格蘭, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 摘要 | Extracts from The Search for the Buddha: The Men Who Discovered India's Lost Religion by Charles Allen, Carroll & Graf, NY, 2002. In 1797 Dr Francis Buchan, ship's surgeon, botanist-cum-intelligence gatherer for the East India Company produced his own paper 'On the Religion and Literature of the Burmas' which was the first serious account of what he chose to term 'Buddhism' to be written in English. He wrote: The books which contain the history of Godama (Gautama) represent him as a king, who having laid aside the ensigns of royalty, withdrew himself into a solitary place, put on the habit of a Talapoin [Burmese monk]. and gave himself up to the study and practice of virtue. At the age of thirty-five Godama had achieved a state of Niban [Nibbana, which Buchan understood to be a state of divinity.] When we say that Godama obtained the Niban, this is to be understood as a state exempt from the four following evils: conception, old age, sickness and death. Nothing in this world, nor any place can give us an idea of the Niban: but the exemption of the above mentioned evils, and the possession of perfect safety, are the only things of which it consists.' Having achieved this state, Godama had then begun to work miracles and promulgate his religious laws, 'in which employment he spent forty-five years'. As for Godama's doctrines, these consisted chiefly in observing five commandments, abstaining from ten sins, and practising good works, including the giving of alms and something that Buchanan called Bavana [in Sanskrit Bhavana -- 'cultivation', thus meditation], which he defined as remembering that one is liable to vicissitudes, remembering that one is liable to misfortune, and remembering that it is not in one's power to exempt oneself from change and misfortune. In his eightieth year Godama had died of dysentery, brought on by 'an excess in eating pork' presented to him by an admirer. Having lived 'in the practice of every good work, and having conferred salvation on every living creature, he was assumed into the state of Niban.' |
| ISSN | 00263214 (P) |
| 點閱次數 | 781 |
| 建檔日期 | 2009.09.30 |
| 更新日期 | 2020.11.04 |
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