| 1880 - 1028 Seiten
...beings believed ' ' be actually existing. It is a homage rendered to ideas, and it is only supposed fo be reflex in its effects. Their worship is useful...world in any other mode, need not pray or worship Mall.' (Pp. 69, 60.) So, then, the three religions address themselves to different parts of man's nature:... | |
| Congregational union of England and Wales - 1858 - 776 Seiten
...setting forth a multitude of facts. Referring to the metaphysical side of their religion, he says : — " It appeals to the imagination, and deals in subtle...any other mode, need not pray or worship at all." The third system, or Taouism, is materialistic. According to the Taouists, the soul is only a purer... | |
| John Joseph Halcombe - 1881 - 590 Seiten
...denies matter entirely. Buddhist worship is a homage rendered to ideas, reflex in its effects, and useful as a discipline, but not effectual as prayer....need not pray or worship at all. These three systems, the moral, the metaphysical, and the material, co-exist without being mutually destructive. They rest... | |
| Frank Stockton Dobbins, Samuel Wells Williams, Isaac Hollister Hall - 1883 - 832 Seiten
...Most of the personages adored by the Buddhists are known to be nothing but f1ctitious impersonations of some of these ideas. The Buddhist worship is not..."These three systems, occupying the three corners of a triangle—the moral, the metaphysical and the material —are supplemental to each other, and are... | |
| Frank Stockton Dobbins - 1897 - 802 Seiten
...Most of the personages adored by the Buddhists are known to be nothing but fictitious impersonations of some of these ideas. The Buddhist worship is not...effects. Their worship is useful as a discipline, but not effertual as prayer. The Buddhist, if he can obtain abstraction of mind from the world in any other... | |
| James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Louis Herbert Gray - 1919 - 932 Seiten
...Buddhist worship, except among the simple-minded in China, is but ' a homage rendered to ideas and is only supposed to be reflex in its effects. Their...useful as a discipline, but not effectual as prayer. ' Prayer is not absolutely necessary to the Buddhist.' But the common man or woman in China, like the... | |
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