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1Google This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world’s books discoverable online. It has survived long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain. A public domain book is one that was never subject to copyright or whose legal copyright term has expired. Whether a book is in the public domain may vary country to country. Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that’s often difficult to discover. Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book’s long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you. Usage guidelines Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible. Public domain books belong to the public and we are merely their custodians. Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying. We also ask that you: + Make non-commercial use of the files We designed Google Book Search for use by individuals, and we request that you use these files for personal, non-commercial purposes. + Refrain from automated querying Do not send automated queries of any sort to Google’s system: If you are conducting research on machine translation, optical character recognition or other areas where access to a large amount of text is helpful, please contact us. We encourage the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help. + Maintain attribution The Google “watermark” you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search. Please do not remove it. + Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal. Do not assume that just because we believe a book is in the public domain for users in the United States, that the work is also in the public domain for users in other countries. Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can’t offer guidance on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed. Please do not assume that a book’s appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world. Copyright infringement liability can be quite severe. About Google Book Search Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Google Book Search helps readers discover the world’s books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web at http: //books.google.com/ B 3 021 322 oo ha #yy “a
2Google Book Search helps readers discover the world’s books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web at http: //books.google.com/ B 3 021 322 oo ha #yy “a Digitized by Google Digitized by Google —T ee OO er THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST UNIVE etl y Ca: teat. ‘ (21) a London HENRY FROWDE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE AMEN CORNER THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST TRANSLATED BY VARIOUS ORIENTAL SCHOLARS AND EDITED BY F. MAX MULLER VOL. XXI @rford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1884 [All rights reserved } vo SES SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA THE LOTUS OF THE TRUE LAW TRANSLATED BY H. KERN @rford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1884 [AU rights reserved] uD > MWIAG y, 2A CONTENTS. PAGR INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . ix Carter 1. Introductory . . . . : . I » 2. Skilfulness . +... . . . . . 30 ” 3. A Parable . . . . . . . 60 » 4. Disposition . . . . . . . 98 ” 5. On Plants . . . . . 118 » 6. Announcement of Future Destiny . . . 142 » 7% Ancient Devotion . 153 ” 8. Announcement of the Future Destiny of the ' Five Hundred Monks. . . . Igt » 9. Announcement of the Future Destiny of Ananda, R4hula, and the Two Thousand Monks . . . . . . . 205 » 10. The Preacher. . . . . . 213 » 11. Apparition of a StQpa . . . . . 224 » 12 Exertion . . . . . . . 255 » 13. Peaceful Life . . 262 » 14. Issuing of Bodhisattvas from the Caps of the Earth . . . . 281 » 15. Duration of Life of the Tathagata | . . 298 » 16. Of Piety. . Zul » 17. Indication of the Meritoriousness of Joyful Acceptance . . . 328 » 18. The Advantages of a Religious Preacher - 336 », 19. Sadaparibhfita . . . 354 » 20. Conception of the Transcendent Pow er of the Tathagatas . . Lot - 363 » 21. Spells . . . . 370 » 22. Ancient Devotion of Bhaishagyaraga . . 376 Vili CONTENTS. PAGE CuapTeR 23. Gadgadasvara 393 » 24. The All-sided One 406 » 25. Ancient Devotion . . 41g » 26. Encouragement of Samantabhadra 431 » 27. The Period 440 InpEx 443 Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets adopted for the Translations of the Sacred Books of the East 451 INTRODUCTION. THE Saddharma-puzdarika is one of the nine Dharmas which are known by the titles of—1. Ash¢asahasrika Pragnaparamita ; 2. Ganda-vyhha; 3. Dasabhimisvara; 4. Samadhi-raga; 5. Lankavatéra; .6. Saddharma-puzdartka ; ¥. Tathagata-guhyaka ; 8. Lalita-vistara; 9. Suvarva-prabhasa.
3THE Saddharma-puzdarika is one of the nine Dharmas which are known by the titles of—1. Ash¢asahasrika Pragnaparamita ; 2. Ganda-vyhha; 3. Dasabhimisvara; 4. Samadhi-raga; 5. Lankavatéra; .6. Saddharma-puzdartka ; ¥. Tathagata-guhyaka ; 8. Lalita-vistara; 9. Suvarva-prabhasa. These nine works, to which divine worship is offered, embrace (to use the words of the first investigator of Nepalese Buddhism’) ‘in the first, an abstract of the philosophy of Buddhism?; ‘in the seventh, a treatise on the esoteric doctrines; and in the seven remaining ones, a full illustration of every point of the ordinary doctrine and discipline, taught in the easy and effective way of example and anecdote, interspersed with occasional instances of dogmatic instruction. With the exception of the first, these works are therefore of a narrative kind; but interwoven with much occasional speculative matter.’ As to the form, it would seem that all the Dharmas may rank as narrative works, which, however, does not exclude in some of them a total difference in style of composition and character. The Lalita-vistara e.g. has the movement of a real epic, the Saddharma-puzdarika has not. The latter bears the character of a dramatic performance, an undeveloped mystery play, in which the chief interlocutor, not the only ' B. H. Hodgson, Essays on the Language, Literature, and Religion of Nepal and Tibet, p. 13; cf. p. 49. 3 As the Perfect Pragia is she who has produced all Tathagatas, the mother of all Bodhisattvas, Pratyekabuddhas, and Disciples (see Cowell and Eggeling, Catalogue of Buddhist Sanskrit Manuscripts, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, New Series, VIII, p. 3), we must infer that the work is chiefly intended to set forth the principia rerum. It begins with chaos (pradh4na or prag#4) ; and hence its place at the commencement of the list. We may, perhaps, best designate it as an abstract of mystic-natural or materialistic philosophy. x SADDHARMA-PUNDARI{KA. one, is SAkyamuni, the Lord. It consists of a series of dialogues, brightened by the magic effects of a would-be supernatural scenery. The phantasmagorical parts of the whole are as clearly intended to impress us with the idea of the might and glory of the Buddha, as his speeches are to set forth his all-surpassing wisdom. Some affinity of its technical arrangement with that of the regular Indian drama is visible in the prologue or Nidana, where Mafgusrtf at the end prepares the spectators and auditors—both are the same—for the beginning of the grand drama, by telling them that the Lord is about to awake from his mystic slumber and to display his infinite wisdom and power.
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1Google This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world’s books discoverable online. It has survived long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain. A public domain book is one that was never subject to copyright or whose legal copyright term has expired. Whether a book is in the public domain may vary country to country. Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that’s often difficult to discover. Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book’s long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you. Usage guidelines Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible. Public domain books belong to the public and we are merely their custodians. Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying. We also ask that you: + Make non-commercial use of the files We designed Google Book Search for use by individuals, and we request that you use these files for personal, non-commercial purposes. + Refrain from automated querying Do not send automated queries of any sort to Google’s system: If you are conducting research on machine translation, optical character recognition or other areas where access to a large amount of text is helpful, please contact us. We encourage the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help. + Maintain attribution The Google “watermark” you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search. Please do not remove it. + Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal. Do not assume that just because we believe a book is in the public domain for users in the United States, that the work is also in the public domain for users in other countries. Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can’t offer guidance on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed. Please do not assume that a book’s appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world. Copyright infringement liability can be quite severe. About Google Book Search Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Google Book Search helps readers discover the world’s books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web at http: //books.google.com/ B 3 021 322 oo ha #yy “a
2Google Book Search helps readers discover the world’s books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web at http: //books.google.com/ B 3 021 322 oo ha #yy “a Digitized by Google Digitized by Google —T ee OO er THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST UNIVE etl y Ca: teat. ‘ (21) a London HENRY FROWDE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE AMEN CORNER THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST TRANSLATED BY VARIOUS ORIENTAL SCHOLARS AND EDITED BY F. MAX MULLER VOL. XXI @rford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1884 [All rights reserved } vo SES SADDHARMA-PUNDARIKA THE LOTUS OF THE TRUE LAW TRANSLATED BY H. KERN @rford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1884 [AU rights reserved] uD > MWIAG y, 2A CONTENTS. PAGR INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . ix Carter 1. Introductory . . . . : . I » 2. Skilfulness . +... . . . . . 30 ” 3. A Parable . . . . . . . 60 » 4. Disposition . . . . . . . 98 ” 5. On Plants . . . . . 118 » 6. Announcement of Future Destiny . . . 142 » 7% Ancient Devotion . 153 ” 8. Announcement of the Future Destiny of the ' Five Hundred Monks. . . . Igt » 9. Announcement of the Future Destiny of Ananda, R4hula, and the Two Thousand Monks . . . . . . . 205 » 10. The Preacher. . . . . . 213 » 11. Apparition of a StQpa . . . . . 224 » 12 Exertion . . . . . . . 255 » 13. Peaceful Life . . 262 » 14. Issuing of Bodhisattvas from the Caps of the Earth . . . . 281 » 15. Duration of Life of the Tathagata | . . 298 » 16. Of Piety. . Zul » 17. Indication of the Meritoriousness of Joyful Acceptance . . . 328 » 18. The Advantages of a Religious Preacher - 336 », 19. Sadaparibhfita . . . 354 » 20. Conception of the Transcendent Pow er of the Tathagatas . . Lot - 363 » 21. Spells . . . . 370 » 22. Ancient Devotion of Bhaishagyaraga . . 376 Vili CONTENTS. PAGE CuapTeR 23. Gadgadasvara 393 » 24. The All-sided One 406 » 25. Ancient Devotion . . 41g » 26. Encouragement of Samantabhadra 431 » 27. The Period 440 InpEx 443 Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets adopted for the Translations of the Sacred Books of the East 451 INTRODUCTION. THE Saddharma-puzdarika is one of the nine Dharmas which are known by the titles of—1. Ash¢asahasrika Pragnaparamita ; 2. Ganda-vyhha; 3. Dasabhimisvara; 4. Samadhi-raga; 5. Lankavatéra; .6. Saddharma-puzdartka ; ¥. Tathagata-guhyaka ; 8. Lalita-vistara; 9. Suvarva-prabhasa.
3THE Saddharma-puzdarika is one of the nine Dharmas which are known by the titles of—1. Ash¢asahasrika Pragnaparamita ; 2. Ganda-vyhha; 3. Dasabhimisvara; 4. Samadhi-raga; 5. Lankavatéra; .6. Saddharma-puzdartka ; ¥. Tathagata-guhyaka ; 8. Lalita-vistara; 9. Suvarva-prabhasa. These nine works, to which divine worship is offered, embrace (to use the words of the first investigator of Nepalese Buddhism’) ‘in the first, an abstract of the philosophy of Buddhism?; ‘in the seventh, a treatise on the esoteric doctrines; and in the seven remaining ones, a full illustration of every point of the ordinary doctrine and discipline, taught in the easy and effective way of example and anecdote, interspersed with occasional instances of dogmatic instruction. With the exception of the first, these works are therefore of a narrative kind; but interwoven with much occasional speculative matter.’ As to the form, it would seem that all the Dharmas may rank as narrative works, which, however, does not exclude in some of them a total difference in style of composition and character. The Lalita-vistara e.g. has the movement of a real epic, the Saddharma-puzdarika has not. The latter bears the character of a dramatic performance, an undeveloped mystery play, in which the chief interlocutor, not the only ' B. H. Hodgson, Essays on the Language, Literature, and Religion of Nepal and Tibet, p. 13; cf. p. 49. 3 As the Perfect Pragia is she who has produced all Tathagatas, the mother of all Bodhisattvas, Pratyekabuddhas, and Disciples (see Cowell and Eggeling, Catalogue of Buddhist Sanskrit Manuscripts, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, New Series, VIII, p. 3), we must infer that the work is chiefly intended to set forth the principia rerum. It begins with chaos (pradh4na or prag#4) ; and hence its place at the commencement of the list. We may, perhaps, best designate it as an abstract of mystic-natural or materialistic philosophy. x SADDHARMA-PUNDARI{KA. one, is SAkyamuni, the Lord. It consists of a series of dialogues, brightened by the magic effects of a would-be supernatural scenery. The phantasmagorical parts of the whole are as clearly intended to impress us with the idea of the might and glory of the Buddha, as his speeches are to set forth his all-surpassing wisdom. Some affinity of its technical arrangement with that of the regular Indian drama is visible in the prologue or Nidana, where Mafgusrtf at the end prepares the spectators and auditors—both are the same—for the beginning of the grand drama, by telling them that the Lord is about to awake from his mystic slumber and to display his infinite wisdom and power.
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