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

Akrura and Vasudeva. Amongst the wives of the citizens appeared Devaki, mourning for her son, ...

of the great demon? Two youths, of light and elegant persons, are in the arena, to oppose athletic fiends, heade ...

of the assembly: seize the villain Nanda, and secure him with chains of iron; put Vasudeva to death with ...

thou, who art one with the Supreme, beguile us? Blinded by delusion, I thought thee my son, and for thee, ...

ministering priests what form of penance would expiate the crime. They replied, that they did not know, and ...

Accordingly, Kesidhwaja proceeds to describe the benefits which result from the Yoga or contemplative ...

furnishes to his inquiring guest. Think of him as having a pleased and lovely countenance, with eyes like ...

CHAPTER VI. IN CHINA:—CONFUCIANISM, TAOUISM, AND BUDDHISM. THE creeds in vogue amongst the Chinese may ...

now called Keo-fou Hien, lying to the eastward of the great Imperial canal, in the province of Shang-tung. T ...

sovereigns regarded with alarm the progress of his bold reforms. No doubt they talked about communistic ...

great machine of empire are not absolutely deprived of volition, a rebellious cog- wheel or insignificant pin ...

Also translated as “the Safe Middle Course,” and “the Infallible Medium,” describes the golden mean, ...

course of the work, the laws of the physical world, of the heavens and the earth, the mountains and rivers, of b ...

ancient, national, and official, the best of which every well-educated Chinaman commits to memory. They ran ...

and all over the fields. Some are remarkable for their splendour; but the majority do not differ in appearance, or ...

class, the Ta-sze, includes the Heaven and the Earth, and along with and equal to these, the great Temple ...

predecessors, which, however, are observed only by the mandarins. So numerous are the festivals that were ...

Taou-tih-king, or Book of Reason and Virtue. He died, or as his followers say, ascended to Heaven on a bla ...

The contrast between the system of Lao-tsze and that of Confucius may be indicated in a word: the form ...

Taouism as well as in Buddhism; as other Pagan nations have had theirs in the Orphic mythology, where the ...