Identifier: buddhagospelofbu01coom (find matches)
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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e disciple of Buddha, was also spiritually theyoungest, the most backward, and did not attain toArahatta until after the death of the Buddha. And sowhen that death takes place, he is represented as overcomeby grief, and exclaiming: Then was the terror IThen stood the hair on end IWhen he endowed with every grace—The supreme Buddha—died I and of those of the Brethren who were not yet free fromthe passions, some stretched their arms and wept, andsome fell headlong on the ground, rolling to and fro inanguish at the thought: Too soon has the Exalted Onedied! Too soon has the Happy One passed away! Toosoon has the Light gone out in the world! But those ofthe Brethren who were free from the passions bore theirgrief collected and composed at the thought: * Impermanentare all component things! How is it possible that (they 1 Compare with this the death-bed consolation of King Dutthagamani,quoted p. 300, below, from the Mahavamsa, 150 VIII BUDDHA AS MENDICANT Abanindro Nath Tagore Page 150
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The Order should not be dissolved)? The venerable Anuruddha,one who had already attained, and was an Arahat, doesnot feel the personal and passionate grief which distressesAnanda, and he says: When he who from all craving want was freeWho to Nirvanas tranquil state had reachedWhen the g7eat sage finished his span of lifeNo gasping struggle vexed that steadfast heart IA11 resolute, and with unshaken mindHe calmly triumphed d*er the pain of death.Een as a bright flame dies away, so wasThe last emancipation of his heart. While Sakka, the king of the gods of heaven, underBrahma, utters the famous lines: They* re transient all, each being)s parts and powers,Growth is their very nature, and decay,They are produced, they are dissolved again :To bring them all into subjection—that is bliss. IX. THE ORDER The central institution of Hinayana Buddhism is theSangha, the Company of Brethren, the men, and insmaller number the women, who left the world to walk onthe Path that leads to Arahatta, th

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