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Title: Buddha and the gospel of Buddhism
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish, 1877-1947
Subjects: Buddha and Buddhism
Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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s it not surely worth thy while, and allthat thou canst ever do ? Behmen, Dialogues? Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you. You must travel itfor yourself . Walt Whitman. You cannot step twice into the same waters, for fresh waters are everflowing in upon you. Herakleitus. Vraiement comencent amours en ioye et fynissent en dolours. Merlin. By a man without passions I mean one who does not permit good andevil to disturb his internal economy, but rather falls in with whateverhappens, as a matter of course, and does not add to the sum of hismortality. Chuang Tau. Profound, O Vaccha, is this doctrine, recondite, and difficult of compre-hension, good, excellent, and not to be reached by mere reasoning, subtile,and intelligible only to the wise ; and it is a hard doctrine for you to learn,who belong to another sect, to another faith, to another persuasion, toanother discipline, and sit at the feet of another teacher. 1 Majjhima Mkaya, Sutta 72 BUDDHA AND THEGOSPEL OF BUDDHISM
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PART I : THE LIFE OF THE BUDDHA His Birth THE name Buddha, * the Knower, the Enlightened,the Wake/ is the appellation by which thewandering preaching friar Gautama became bestknown to his disciples. Of this man we are able to saywith some certainty that he was born in the year 563 B.C.and died in 483 B.C. He was the heir of a rulinghouse of the Sakyas, whose little kingdom, a rich irrigatedplain between the Nepalese foot-hills and the river Rapti,lay to the north-east of the present province of Oudh.To the south-west lay the larger and more powerfulkingdom of the Kosalas, to whom the Sakyas owed anominal allegiance. The Buddhas personal name wasSiddhattha, his family name Gautama, his fathers nameSuddhodana, his mothers Maya. It is only in laterlegend that Suddhodana is represented as a great king;most likely he was in fact a wealthy knight and land-owner. Siddhatthas mother died seven days after his birth,and her sister Mahajapati, another wife of Suddhodana,filled the place of mothe

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