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Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)

Religion

Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.

Name: Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.
Author: Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)

Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)

Idols and images -- Worship; Mythology; Religions

3. To dwell in a pleasant land,
       Good works done in a former birth,
       Right desires in the heart:
         This is the greatest blessing.

    4. Much insight and education,
       Self control and pleasant speech,
       And whatever word be well-spoken:
         This is the greatest blessing.

    5. To support father and mother,
       To cherish wife and child,
       To follow a peaceful calling:
         This is the greatest blessing.

    6. To bestow alms and live righteously,
       To give help to kindred,
       Deeds which cannot be blamed:
         These are the greatest blessings.

    7. To abhor and cease from sin,
       Abstinence from strong drink,
       Not to be weary in well-doing:
         These are the greatest blessings.

    8. Reverence and lowliness,
       Contentment and gratitude,
       The hearing of the Law at due seasons:
         This is the greatest blessing.

    9. To be long-suffering and meek,
       To associate with the tranquil (_i. e._, Buddhist monks),
       Religious talk at due seasons:
         This is the greatest blessing.

    10. Self-restraint and purity,
        The knowledge of the Noble Truths,
        The realization of Nirvāna:
          This is the greatest blessing.

    11. Beneath the stroke of life’s changes,
        The mind that shaketh not;
        Without grief or passion, and secure:
          This is the greatest blessing.

    12. On every side are invincible
        They who do acts like these,
        On every side they walk in safety,
          And theirs is the greatest blessing.




                            CHAPTER XXVIII.

             THE GROWTH OF BUDDHISM--THE BUDDHIST ORDER OF
                              MENDICANTS.

                  What proud Emperors
    Carved his sweet words upon the rocks and caves;
    And how--in fullness of the times--it fell
    The Buddha died, the great Tathagato,
    Even as a man ’mongst men, fulfilling all:
    And how a thousand thousand crores[5] since then
    Have trod the Path which leads whither he went
    Unto NIRVANA where the Silence lives.
                EDWIN ARNOLD, IN THE “LIGHT OF ASIA.”


Buddhism is a missionary system. It has spread far beyond the land
of its birth, all over Asia. The methods of its spread were entirely
different from those of Mohammedanism, while they somewhat resembled
those of Christianity. To-day Buddhism numbers about two-fifths of the
world’s population among its adherents. It is still in vigorous life.
It has been propagated mainly through the _Sangha_, or Buddhist
Order of Mendicants. The dates usually assigned for the entrance of
Buddhism into other lands are as follows: Into Ceylon, 250 B.C.; into
China, 65 A.D.; into Corea, 372 A.D.; into Burmah, 450 A.D.; into
Japan, 552 A.D.; into Thibet, about 625 A.D.; and into Siam, 638 A.D.
While some of these have been questioned, no good reason has yet been
given for accepting any others.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Opening the text

Religion

Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.

Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)

Idols and images -- Worship; Mythology; Religions

3. To dwell in a pleasant land,
       Good works done in a former birth,
       Right desires in the heart:
         This is the greatest blessing.

    4. Much insight and education,
       Self control and pleasant speech,
       And whatever word be well-spoken:
         This is the greatest blessing.

    5. To support father and mother,
       To cherish wife and child,
       To follow a peaceful calling:
         This is the greatest blessing.

    6. To bestow alms and live righteously,
       To give help to kindred,
       Deeds which cannot be blamed:
         These are the greatest blessings.

    7. To abhor and cease from sin,
       Abstinence from strong drink,
       Not to be weary in well-doing:
         These are the greatest blessings.

    8. Reverence and lowliness,
       Contentment and gratitude,
       The hearing of the Law at due seasons:
         This is the greatest blessing.

    9. To be long-suffering and meek,
       To associate with the tranquil (_i. e._, Buddhist monks),
       Religious talk at due seasons:
         This is the greatest blessing.

    10. Self-restraint and purity,
        The knowledge of the Noble Truths,
        The realization of Nirvāna:
          This is the greatest blessing.

    11. Beneath the stroke of life’s changes,
        The mind that shaketh not;
        Without grief or passion, and secure:
          This is the greatest blessing.

    12. On every side are invincible
        They who do acts like these,
        On every side they walk in safety,
          And theirs is the greatest blessing.




                            CHAPTER XXVIII.

             THE GROWTH OF BUDDHISM--THE BUDDHIST ORDER OF
                              MENDICANTS.

                  What proud Emperors
    Carved his sweet words upon the rocks and caves;
    And how--in fullness of the times--it fell
    The Buddha died, the great Tathagato,
    Even as a man ’mongst men, fulfilling all:
    And how a thousand thousand crores[5] since then
    Have trod the Path which leads whither he went
    Unto NIRVANA where the Silence lives.
                EDWIN ARNOLD, IN THE “LIGHT OF ASIA.”


Buddhism is a missionary system. It has spread far beyond the land
of its birth, all over Asia. The methods of its spread were entirely
different from those of Mohammedanism, while they somewhat resembled
those of Christianity. To-day Buddhism numbers about two-fifths of the
world’s population among its adherents. It is still in vigorous life.
It has been propagated mainly through the _Sangha_, or Buddhist
Order of Mendicants. The dates usually assigned for the entrance of
Buddhism into other lands are as follows: Into Ceylon, 250 B.C.; into
China, 65 A.D.; into Corea, 372 A.D.; into Burmah, 450 A.D.; into
Japan, 552 A.D.; into Thibet, about 625 A.D.; and into Siam, 638 A.D.
While some of these have been questioned, no good reason has yet been
given for accepting any others.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.

Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.

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