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Buddhism and Christianity: A Parallel and a Contrast

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231. Dhamma-Kakka-ppavattana Sutta, 6, note; Sacred Books of the East, vol.xi.p. 148.
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232. Dhammapada, 239; ibid.vol.x.p. 1.
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233. Akankheya Sutta; Sacred Books of the East, vol.xi.p. 210.
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234. If the legends are to be followed, he believed in the miraculous power which resulted from it (see Mahâparanibhâna Sutta, i. 33, and iii. 22; also Mahavagga, i. 20. 24), but he condemned the exercise of that power for self-glorification or for paltry gain (Kullavagga, v. 8. 2; also vii. 1, 2, 3; Sacred Books of the East, vols. xi. xii. xiii.).
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235. See Gough, Philosophy of the Upanishads, pp. 267, 268.
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236. Oldenberg, Buddha, etc., p. 314.
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237. Sir Monier Williams, Buddhism, p. 35.
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238. Saint-Hilaire, Le Bouddha, etc., p. 162.
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239. Mr. Alabaster, Wheel of the Law, preface, p.xvi.
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240. Eitel, Lectures on Buddhism, pp. 59-70; Saint-Hilaire, Le Bouddha, p. 156.
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241. Jackson’s Bampton Lectures, The Doctrine of Retribution, p. 284; Caird’s Philosophy of Religion, Croall Lectures, pp. 259 seq.
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242. Saint-Hilaire, Le Bouddha, p. xxiii; Hardy’s Eastern Monachism, p. 312.
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243. “Prefix the name of God to this Declaration” (of the Rights of Man), said Abbé Grégoire to the National Assembly in 1789, “or you leave it without foundation, and make right the equivalent of force.” The Assembly refused, but events soon confirmed his judgment.—Baring Gould, Development of Belief, vol. ii. p. 88.
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244. Sangha, originally an assembly (of disciples gathered around a Hindu sage). In Buddhism, the entire fraternity (like the Order of Francis or Dominic).—Sir Monier Williams, Buddhism, p. 176.
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245. Robertson Smith, Prophets of Israel, p. 275.
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246. Kullavagga, vi. 2, 3, 4; Sacred Books of the East, vol. xx..
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247. Weber, Indian Literature, p. 306.
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248. Dhammapadda, 141; Sacred Books of the East, vol.x. Part i.; Pâtimokkha Sekhiyá Dhammâ, 1, 2, 3, 4; ibid. vol. xiii. p. 59.
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249. Mahâparanibhâna Sutta, iii. 65; Sacred Books of the East, vol. xi.
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250. Kuenen, Hibbert Lectures, p. 279.
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251. Mahavagga, i. 11; Sacred Books of the East, vol. xiii.
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253. Ibid.viii. 27. 5; ibid. vol. xvii.; Kullavagga, vi. 1. 3; ibid. vi. 9. 2; ibid. vol. xx.
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254. Kuenen, Hibbert Lectures, pp. 251 seq. The doctrine that it bore nobler fruit is expressly contradicted by some. See Âpastamba, pres. ii. pat. ix. khan. 23; also pres. ii. pat. ix. k. 24. 15; Sacred Books of the East, vol. ii. pp. 156, 159.
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255. The way of “Works”—ceremonial and sacrificial religion; the way of “Faith”—devotion (heart) to the deities without works; the way of “Knowledge,” or true enlightenment.—Sir Monier Williams, Buddhism, p. 95.
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256. Saint-Hilaire, Le Bouddha, etc., p. 152.
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257. Not without protest, however, by fathers and doctors of the Church. See Hermas, Simil.v.; Clem. Strom.iii.; Tertullian, De Jejunio, p. 123 seq.; De Pallio, p. 181 seq.
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258. Gieseler, Eccles. Hist.vol.i.pp. 289 seq.; Neander’s Church Hist. vol. iii. pp. 305 seq.
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260. Montalembert, Monks of the West, vol.i.p. 319; Neander’s Church History, vol. iii. pp. 338, 339.
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261. Cassian, Collationes, ii. 5-8; De Instit. Monachi, x.; De capitalibus vitiis, quoted by Farrar, Lives of the Fathers, vol. ii. p. 224; Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, ii. 510.
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262. Monks of the West, vol.i.p. 27.
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263. Sutta Nipâta, 75-81; Sacred Books of the East, vol. x. p. ii.
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264. Theod. Eccles. Hist. lib. iv. cap. 26.
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265. “They prayed for the whole world.”—Chrysost. H. 78, In Johannem.
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266. Oldenberg, Buddha, etc., pp. 317, 318.
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267. Mahavagga, viii. 15; Sacred Books of the East, vol. xvii.
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268. “I am not aware of any instances in which the pariah of the age is mentioned as a member of the Order.” “According to Buddhist dogmatics, a good Sudra or Vaisya could only hope to be re-born as a Kshatrya, and this clearly indicates that the distinctions of castes had by no means vanished or become worthless in Buddha’s consciousness” (Buddha, etc., p. 156).
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269. Mahavagga, i. 39. 76; Sacred Books of the East, vol. xiii.
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270. Christianity does not, as Goethe averred, “prefer what is despised and feeble,” but as in God’s eyes nothing is despised and abject, so, in fellowship with the Father, Christ cherished the maimed and lame and blind, though hated of the soul of the natural man, and this disposition will ever be a “mark” or “note” of the true Church of Christ.

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