Buddhist Mahâyâna texts

Edward B. (Edward Byles) Cowell, F. Max (Friedrich Max) Mã¼Ller, Junjiro Takakusu

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1 m: mm 1 ' ''* I I ' I •-ana-sutra. The Buddhists who, as I have pointed out on several occasions, are the debtors of the Brahmans in almost all their philosophical speculations, seem to me to have borrowed also their half-mythological conception of Sukhd- vati or the Land of Bliss from the same source. In the Vishwu and other Pura;/as, when the cities of the Lokapala- gods are mentioned, in the different quarters of the sky, the city of Varu;/a is placed in the it isWest, and called Mukhya, the cliief, or Sukha, the happy, or NimloX'ani, the city of sunset. This Sukha is, I think, the prototype of Sukhavati ^ Though it would be rash to conclude that therefore the Puraz/as, as we now possess them, because they mention the Land of Bliss or Sukhd, must be older than our text of the Sukhavati, say 100 A. D., we may say that Paura;/ik legends must certainly have existed at that early time, and this is a matter ofsome importance. I have not found any I^rahnianic antecedents of Avalokitejvara, ' See .ilso Anandngiri on .9ankara'b commentary A7iandog)'a-upanish.id,on the III, ctarita (-kavya),I. ' No. another of theLife of Buddha,' a poem, by 1351 ; See Translated into Chinese same name No. 680. To beAn-aghosha, of India. Dharmaraksha, u. andAryan by A. 420. found in the India OfficeAnccdota Oxonicnsia, From Chinese into Enf,'lish Thevol. i, part vii, 1S93. the Bodleian Librar)'.Series, by S. Beal, Fo-sho-hing-lsan-Translated by E. B. CowcU, Nishi-HongAvanji king, S.B. E., vol.

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