Curiosities of Superstition, and Sketches - W. H. Davenport Adams

could not suffer. But whence comes birth or continued existence?... We have no room, however, to dwell o ...

and transitory; 2nd. That all existence is the result of passion; 3rd. That, therefore, the extin ...

philosopher, but would hardly have been regarded as likely to attract the masses. We suppose the explanation ...

complied, and performed the required miracles; but at the same time he exclaimed, “Great King ...

thought, such as has been enjoined by several philosophical or religious systems; —such as was revived in ...

These, too, faded away in the fourth stage, along with memory, and all sense of pain; and before the neoph ...

nor with nature, which it does not know better. Nothing remained but to annihilate the soul ...

of myth and legend. His relics came to be worshipped, and reliquary towers for their preservation were ever ...

companions lost heart. But Hiouen-thsang was made of sterner stuff. His mother had often told him how, befor ...

he no longer regarded as of value. In this resolution he persisted for three days, and the Khan, afraid th ...

Of the Musur-dabaghan mountains he says:— “The crest of these heights rises to the sky. Since the beginning ...

circumference of the cities, the number of their inhabitants, the products of the soil, the articles of trad ...

dim patch of light. But it passed away. With mingled joy and pain he continued to pray, and again he saw a ...

his design, he crossed the peninsula from east to west, ascended the Malabar coast, reached the Indus, and afte ...

said, “is still the soul of the administration;” and he preferred to devote his remaining years to the stud ...

palace or convent; a body so impure as mine should be separated from it by a great distance.’ “On hea ...

I see an immense lotus-flower, charming in its freshness and purity.’ “He had another dream on the seventeenth day ...

Lou-men-t’o-lo-ni-king (Chat moukhi dhârani).” He had ministered to the wants of upwards of twenty thousand perso ...

again in the midst of the multitude who surround you.” The Master of the Law, after having long fixed hi ...

affectionate benevolence and tender pity, the fervour of his zeal or his inviolable attachment to the practices o ...