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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

The most important of all Asoka’s missionary enterprises was that
which he sent to Ceylon. “Tissa, the delight of the gods,” was at this
time king of Ceylon. To him, Asoka’s own son, Mahinda, was sent as a
Buddhist missionary. Mahinda had been for twelve years a member of
the Sangha, or order of mendicants. One year after the great council
of the thousand monks, he started for Ceylon. He took with him a band
of monks and copies of the Tripitakas, the Buddhist Bible, which had
just been adopted by the Patna council. He took also copies of the
commentaries upon these.

  [Illustration: ROADWAY TO A BUDDHIST TEMPLE IN CEYLON.]

Tissa received Mahinda with great favor, and soon became a zealous
worker in the new religion. At Mahinda’s suggestion, Tissa built the
Thuparama Dagaba in the city of Anurādha-pura. This relic-house was
said to have contained the right collar-bone of Gautama Buddha. Near
the Dagaba the king built a beautiful monastery. On this hill the
missionary Mahinda spent most of his after life. He had his study cut
out of the solid rock, and steps cut in the rock. Before his view
spread out the great plains and beautiful forests of Ceylon. Within
the cave there still exists the stone couch on which he rested. In
this lonely, cool and quiet rock-chamber, the great teacher of Ceylon
sat, thought, wrote, more than 2,000 years ago. Mahinda’s sister came
over shortly after her brother, to instruct some of the king’s female
relations, who wished to become nuns. She brought with her a branch of
the sacred Bo-tree, the tree under which Gautama Buddha had fought and
won the battle of his life, and where he gained the Buddha-hood.


                     THE SACRED BO-TREE OF CEYLON.

This branch was planted near the Dagaba, and, as it has always been
tended with great care, it still grows there. This is the tree upon
which Whittier has founded his poem, “The Cypress-tree of Ceylon;” of
which Ibn Batuta, the celebrated Mussulman traveler of the fourteenth
century, has spoken. “It was,” says Ibn Batuta, “held sacred by the
natives, and its leaves were said to have fallen only at certain
intervals; he who had the happiness to find and eat one of them was
restored, at once, to youth and vigor.” Sir Emerson Tennent, who wrote
about 1860, says of it:

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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

The most important of all Asoka’s missionary enterprises was that
which he sent to Ceylon. “Tissa, the delight of the gods,” was at this
time king of Ceylon. To him, Asoka’s own son, Mahinda, was sent as a
Buddhist missionary. Mahinda had been for twelve years a member of
the Sangha, or order of mendicants. One year after the great council
of the thousand monks, he started for Ceylon. He took with him a band
of monks and copies of the Tripitakas, the Buddhist Bible, which had
just been adopted by the Patna council. He took also copies of the
commentaries upon these.

  [Illustration: ROADWAY TO A BUDDHIST TEMPLE IN CEYLON.]

Tissa received Mahinda with great favor, and soon became a zealous
worker in the new religion. At Mahinda’s suggestion, Tissa built the
Thuparama Dagaba in the city of Anurādha-pura. This relic-house was
said to have contained the right collar-bone of Gautama Buddha. Near
the Dagaba the king built a beautiful monastery. On this hill the
missionary Mahinda spent most of his after life. He had his study cut
out of the solid rock, and steps cut in the rock. Before his view
spread out the great plains and beautiful forests of Ceylon. Within
the cave there still exists the stone couch on which he rested. In
this lonely, cool and quiet rock-chamber, the great teacher of Ceylon
sat, thought, wrote, more than 2,000 years ago. Mahinda’s sister came
over shortly after her brother, to instruct some of the king’s female
relations, who wished to become nuns. She brought with her a branch of
the sacred Bo-tree, the tree under which Gautama Buddha had fought and
won the battle of his life, and where he gained the Buddha-hood.


                     THE SACRED BO-TREE OF CEYLON.

This branch was planted near the Dagaba, and, as it has always been
tended with great care, it still grows there. This is the tree upon
which Whittier has founded his poem, “The Cypress-tree of Ceylon;” of
which Ibn Batuta, the celebrated Mussulman traveler of the fourteenth
century, has spoken. “It was,” says Ibn Batuta, “held sacred by the
natives, and its leaves were said to have fallen only at certain
intervals; he who had the happiness to find and eat one of them was
restored, at once, to youth and vigor.” Sir Emerson Tennent, who wrote
about 1860, says of it:

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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