[3] “They had within themselves the possession of a power by which all objective truth could be presented to their intellectual vision. They, therefore, partook of what in other systems would be regarded as divinity.”—_Eastern Monachism_. Spence Hardy. [4] “They have been divided into existing and non-existing, real and unreal, by those who had wrong notions; other laws also, of permanency, of being produced, of birth from something already produced, are wrongly assumed.”—_Saddharma-Pundarika_. H. Kern. [5] “But, O Bhagavat, there will not arise in them any idea of a self, of a being, of a living being, of a person, nor does there exist for them any idea of no-idea. And why? Because, the idea of a self is no-idea, the idea of a being is no-idea, the idea of a living being is no-idea, the idea of a person is no-idea. And why? Because, the blessed Buddhas are freed from all ideas.”—_The Vagrakkhedika_. Max Müller. [6] ... “For birth and death End hence for me and those who learn my Law.”—_The Light of Asia_. Sir Edwin Arnold. [7] “As the Buddhist strove to reach a state of quietism or holy meditation in this world, namely the state of the perfect disciple or Arhat; so he looked forward to an eternal calm in the world to come, Nirvana. Buddha taught that this end could only be attained by the practice of virtue.”—_The Indian Empire_. Sir William Hunter. [8] “The heart of it is love, the end of it Is peace and consummation sweet.”—_The Light of Asia_. Sir Edwin Arnold. [9] The first of six _Paramita_—charity, morality, endurance, energy, contemplation, wisdom—or means of attaining to Nirvana. “What the Tathagata preaches as the _Prajna-Paramita_, that was preached also by innumerable Blessed Buddhas. Therefore it is called the _Prajna-Paramita_,”—_The Vagrakkhedika_. Max Müller. [10] “An ancient kingdom S.E. of Kos’ala, a nursery of heretical sects, the present Calingapatah, a town in the northern Circars (Lat. 18° 15 N., Long. 85° 11 E.).”—_Handbook of Chinese Buddhism_. Eitel.