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and Hervaelor . . . but I must remark, in reference to the latter, that through the indications contained in the Skalholt Saga, the American savants have been able to find upon the shores of the Potomac the tomb of a woman who fell by the arrows of the Skrellings in 1051."

How it is that the propagandism of the Buddhist missionaries has been so successful, and the work of other missionaries so fruitless, would be an interesting inquiry. To this rule there is one exception-the missionary labours of the higher Christianity, before it was tainted and stiffened by contact with the lower. Asia, Africa, Europe, America were in turn assailed by the untiring beggars of Buddha; and with the philosophic Greek and the painted savage they seem to have been equally successful. By missionary work I mean of course moral persuasion, and not religious changes effected by the faggot and the scimitar.

It is evident that until the earliest Buddhism can be detached from the later Buddhism, the living from the dead, such inquiry will be premature.

Majestic and calm amid the overturned priestly tyrannies that his effort has compassed, sits the great figure of Buddha, careless alike of idolatry and misrepresentation. If this little work has shown the great Muni in a truer light, my labour has not been in vain.

INDEX.

ÂDI-BUDDHA, supreme God in
Nepal and Tibet, 13, 14, 15
Aditi, the Vedic universal mother,
5, 6

Aditya, the son of Earth, 10
dityas, the Seven, II
Agni, the Son of Man, 10
Agnosticism of early Buddhism dis-
proved, 27, 28, 47, 48, 122-127
Akasa, symbol of God, 18; the fifth
element, 140

Alexandria, important position of,
198

America, Buddhism in, 241 et seq.
Amravati, Swastica attitude, 246
Amida Butz, Japanese Amitâbha,
17

Amirta Nanda Bandhya, denies
atheism, 14; importance of his
esoteric revelations, 20; the higher
Buddhism, 94; Nirvriti the same
as Nirvâna, 123, 124
Amitâbha, the "Merciful Father,"
Supreme Buddha in Northern
Buddhism, 13, 14
Amrita, immortal beverage, 103
Ananda, 170

Anointed Chakravartin. See Chak-
ravartin.

Aquarius, Kumbha in Buddhism, 9
Aries, a horse in Buddhism, 9
Architecture, 183

Arûpaloca, the heavens where forın
ceases, 51

Asas, 231 et seq.
Asaland, 230

Asclepias acida, connected with
soma worship, 8
Asgard, 230

Asioi identified with the Asas, 230
Asita visits Buddha, 76
Asoka, 58; his inscriptions, 58;
extensive rule, 58; ideas about
God, 59; ideas about a future
life, 61; his paradise the Vedic

paradise, Swarga, 62; the metem-
psychosis not in the inscriptions,
62; animal sacrifice forbidden,
63; becomes a monk, 160
Asura pierced by Buddha, 85
Atheism of early Buddhism dis-
proved, 13, 14, 15

Avalokiteshwara, patron saint of
Tibet, 128

Avatâras in the Vedas, 12; in Bud-
dhism, 12

Bactria, 1, 3
Balder, 238, 239

Bali, ancestor-worship of Ceylon, 45
Baptism, the Buddhist rite of, 55;
ceremonies in Nepal, 56, 57;
Tibet, 57; unknown in Southern
Buddhism, 57; Japanese, 57;
Chinese, 57; Buddha's mystic,
100, 101
Beal, Professor S., 13; "Merciful
Father," 14; Chinese Liturgy,
14, 21, 22; on the Sûla-maņi, 47;
Chinese cosmology, 49, 53; on
Wung Pub, 70, 71; Buddhist
pilgrims, 88; Suddhâvasa Devas,
91; Buddha's baptism, 100; im-
portance of the mention of the
heaven of Brahma in the Chinese
Dhammapada, 116, 117; Chinese
Dhammapada, chap. xi. ; account
of the Buddha with the descending
dove, 225, note

Bhagavat, God Almighty, title ap-
plied to Buddha, 120; also to
Vishnu and Siva, 120
Bhagavad Gîtâ, cited, II
Bhikshu, beggar, 132

Bigandet, Bishop, 190 et seq.
Bimbasâra advised to slay the infant
Buddha, III

Bloody sacrifice, Buddha's special
aversion, 144

Bodhi, awakening of the spiritual

life of the individual, 5, 47, 142

Borri, Father, 17
Brahma, knowledge of, aim of early
mystics, 5; God in Southern
Buddhism, 18; means light, 18
Brahmacharin, Buddha a, 5
Brahmanas, Buddha's disciples
called, 116
Buddha. See Sakya Muni
Buddha, the supreme, 17, 18, 20,

21

Buddhas of the past, importance of,
47, 48

Buddhaghosa, his testimony against
modern agnosticism, 24
Burnouf, Eugène, caste system
rampant at the date of Buddha's
reformation, 5; meaning of the
head of a Buddha, 24; believes
the stúpa to be an originality of
Buddha, 32; relic-worship, 38;
on the Sûla-mani, 47; Dhauli
edict, 67; Brahmacharya, 118;
Nirvana Sûtra, 125; Avalokitêsh-
wara, 129; "twelve observances,"
132; miracle and preaching, 138;
fruit of good and evil actions,
144; house of Brahma, 148;
Prince Kunâla, 158; the Pro-
digal Son, 167; Vasavadatta, 171
Caste system prior to Buddhism, 5
Ceylon scriptures pronounced the

most authentic Buddhist litera-
ture, 68; theory examined, 68,
69

Chaitya, 35

Chakravartin, 77

Ch'hattra. See Umbrella
Christianity, higher, 217, 218
Christianity, lower, tries to com-
bine two antagonistic ideas, gnos-
ticism and the lower Judaism,
208
Colebrooke, Henry, Essay on the
Vedas, I; importance of, I;
triune nature of Vedic divinity,
6; pole star, a of Draco, 7;
Nacshatras, 8; on Capila, 12;
on the Seven Rishis, 12; Brahma,
all-pervading light, 18; on the
Gâyatrî, 18; on the Ch'hetri, or
sepulchral tumulus of Brahmin-
ism, 32; trees, flags, mounds,
erected to the dead, 33; on the
Yagur Veda, 33; ritual of the
dead, 33; hymns to the Pitri or
ancestors, 34; other rites, 34;
on the Brahmin cosmology, 50;

on the Paurânica Sânc'hya, 54;
Bhagavat, God Almighty in
Saivism and Vaishnavism, 120;
Dharma, pure ethics, 148; justi-
fication by faith in Brahminism,
183; parallel between Buddhist
and Greek philosophies, 185
Cosmology, Buddhist, disproves
agnostic theory, 49-52 et seq.
Cross, pre-Christian, 7
Davids, T. W. Rhys, Buddhists
ignore the existence of the soul,
vii.; Buddhism agnostic atheism,
15; influence of Christian thought
on Buddhism, 15; Buddhism of
the South, 15, 24; high authority
of the Cingalese Life of Buddha,
68; the Southern Canon, 68;
position examined, 69, 70; im-
probability of the Buddhaghosa
story, 69; necessity of examining
the theory that gnostic Buddhism
is derived from Christianity, 185
Danḍapâni, 82
D'Eichthal, 243

Dhammapada, Buddha's views on
God, immortality, &c., selected
from, 149 et seq.

Dharma, second person of Buddhist
triad, 20, 21; feminine principle,
20; pure ethics, 148
Dickson, Pâtimokkha, 6

Divo Vriksha, sacred tree of the
Rig-Veda, 8

Draco, a of the sky, origin of the
serpent symbol, 7

Dutch Governor, Ceylon Buddhists
reply to, on God, 16; ou immor-
tality, 125
Eddas, 237

Elephant symbol, importance of,
71; in America, 247

Essenes, parallel between Buddhists
and, 190-196

Fasting, Buddha's forty-seven days
and nights', 100
Feeding Buddha, 44
Fergusson, James, 183, 184
Flabellum or fan in the early
Church, 180

Foucaux, Philippe Édouard, denies

Buddhist nihilism, viii.; his
translation of the Lalita Vistara
the best legendary Life, 70; di-
gest of it, 70-113; Nirvriti and
Nirvâna identical, 124

Freemasonry, Buddhist, 133-138

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Mantra, 26
Manu, II

Mâra tempts Buddha, 100-104
Marichi, ray of light, 22; confused
with Virgin Mary, 22
Mâtra, mother, and also matter, 21
Mâya, 70

"Mercy and not sacrifice," keynote
of the higher Judaism and the
higher Christianity, 207, 208
Mexican Buddha, 244

Milman, Dean, holds that the
Therapeuts were sprung from
the contemplative and indolent
fraternities of India, 185
Mithuna, Gemini, 10
Mystic societies, 133-138
Nacshatras, 8

Nairañjana, IOI

Nanda and Upananda, the two male
and female serpents of the sky, 75
Nandana grove, 10
Nepâl, supreme god of, 15
Nirîswara Sânk'hya, 54
Nirvâna, meaning discussed, 122;
important evidence of Pânini, 123
Nirvanapura, city of Nirvâna, 51, 123
O'M, monogram of the triad, 2
Omito Fo. Chinese Amitâbha, 17
Origines Bouddhiques de la Civili-
sation Americaiue, G. d'Eichthal,
243

Orkneys, 239, 240

Oung Gyee denies atheism, 18;
Gautama, god, 18; baptism not
in Southern Buddhism, 55
Padmapâni, 22

Pâli v. Sanskrit, 68

Pânini, his important evidence on
the meaning of Nirvâna, 123
Palâsa, Mâya's tree, 74
Pastor of Hermas, 12
Paurânica Sanc'hya, 54
Pfoundes, Mr., 17, 57
Picts' houses, 2, 239
Pisces, 9

Pitri, 34

Prajnâ, 5, 20, 21

Pravriti, 50

Purusha, 10

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