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.
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,
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
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
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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