Buddhism and Christianity: A Parallel and a ContrastScott, Archibald
Religion
Buddhism and Christianity: A Parallel and a Contrast
Scott, Archibald
Buddhism -- Relations -- Christianity; Christianity and other religions -- Buddhism
Samyutta-ka-Nikâya, quoted by Oldenberg, _Buddha, etc._, p. 217.
Footnote 186:
_Bouddha et sa Religion_, p. iii, Introduction.
Footnote 187:
“The Modern Buddhist,” published in the volume called _The Wheel of
the Law: Buddhism illustrated from Siamese Sources_, by H. Alabaster;
London, 1876.
Footnote 188:
Dr. Westcott, _Social Aspects of Christianity_, p. 12; Aristotle,
_Ethic._, i. 1; iv. 3.
Footnote 189:
“The Modern Buddhist,” Alabaster, _Wheel of the Law_, p. 73; Spence
Hardy, _Eastern Monachism_, pp. 5, 339; Gogerly’s translation of the
Brahmajala Sutta in Digha Nikâya, _Journal of Ceylon Asiatic Society_,
1846.
Footnote 190:
Preface to Müller’s Dhammapada, p. xxx, old ed.
Footnote 191:
Note at pp. 31, 32 of Dhammapada in vol. x. of _Sacred Books of the
East_. Frankfurter, App. _Bamp. Lect._ 1881, p. 349.
Footnote 192:
Rhys Davids, _Buddhism_, p. 95; Spence Hardy, _Manual of Buddhism_, p.
388; Oldenberg, _Buddha, etc._, quoting Bhikkuni Samyutta, p. 258;
Colebrooke’s _Essays_, vol. i. p. 417, Cowell’s edition; Sabbasava
Sutta, 10, 11, 12: _Sacred Books of the East_, vol. xi.
Footnote 193:
_Life of Gaudama_, first ed., p. 321 note; Rangoon, 1866.
Footnote 194:
Max Müller, introd. to Buddagosha’s Parables, p. xxx, ed. 1870.
Footnote 195:
The first traces of this belief are found, it is said, in the
Upanishads, Brihadáranyaka, iii. 2. 1, _Sacred Books of the East_,
vol. xv. p. 126; Dhammapada, v. 1. 127, _ibid._ vol. x. Part i. 3. 35.
Footnote 196:
Rhys Davids, Hibbert Lectures, p. 94; also his _Manual of Buddhism_,
pp. 100, 106.
Footnote 197:
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought; it is founded
on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or
acts with an evil thought (or polluted mind), suffering follows him as
the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the wain” (Dhammapada,
1). “Not in the sky, not in the midst of the sea, not if we enter the
cleft of the mountains, is there known a spot in the whole world where
a man might be freed from an evil deed” (Dhammapada, 127; _Sacred
Books of the East_, vol. x.).
Footnote 198:
“L’athéisme devenu religion et recouvert du manteau des vertus
chrétiennes.”—Wassilief, _Buddhism_, introd. by E. Laboulaye, p. viii.
Footnote 199:
Professor Dods, _Mohammed, Buddha, and Christ_, p. 171.
Footnote 200:
Nagasēna’s figure used in controverting the idea of the separate
existence of the soul.—Milindapanha, p. 25, quoted by Oldenberg,
_Buddha_, p. 254; Hardy, _Manual_, p. 425; Rhys Davids, _Buddhism_, p.
96.
Footnote 201:
Oldenberg, _op. cit._, 221.
Footnote 202:
_Phaedo_, Jowett’s Introd., i. 407, ed. 1875.
Footnote 203:
Preface to English translation of the Lalita Vistara; Calcutta.
Footnote 204:
Sutta Nipâta; _Sacred Books of the East_, vol. x. pp. 33, 80.
Footnote 205:
_Buddha, etc._, pp. 274-284; Rhys Davids, _Buddhism_, pp. 111-123.
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