This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXV. THE BUDDHA'S PARADISE. TN a former chapter Buddha is represented as having ascended on a cloud to the heavens with several of his followers, and having made an official and friendly call on the king of Indra and his queen. He also claimed one of the three heavens, visited at that time, as ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXV. THE BUDDHA'S PARADISE. TN a former chapter Buddha is represented as having ascended on a cloud to the heavens with several of his followers, and having made an official and friendly call on the king of Indra and his queen. He also claimed one of the three heavens, visited at that time, as his own particular paradise. This doctrine of a Buddha's paradise, whether it had its germ in the original teachings of Buddha or not, has taken strong possession of the leading minds of the Buddhists of the Northern school, and they have elaborated it very beautifully and effectively. The same is true of the Buddhist hells, although the word horribly instead of beautifully must necessarily be used when speaking of that part of the Buddhistic doctrine of the future. It must be borne in mind while reading this chapter that a birth into and a residence in paradise does not mean to an orthodox Buddhist that the one thus born and residing there will continue there forever. Far from it. This paradise is but one of the stages on the path toward perfection--that is, total extinction of being. Life in this paradise is obtained by a concentrated accumulation of merits; but the force inherent in those merits ultimately dies out--according to the teaching of orthodox Buddhism--as power wanes and dies out of an electric motor when the producing machinery ceases to be active. When this occurs, another birth, as a man, becomes necessary. It is expected that this following birth will ultimate in perfection, though it may ultimate in a series of acts involving demerit. In that case the whole weary round of birth and rebirth as insect, reptile, bird, beast, demon, or sufferer of the horrible tortures of the awful hells may have to be again trod through...
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