China Throughout the AgesHsien Press, 1928 - 508 Seiten |
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Seite 139 - Augustine, at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century. From that time forward the neuter gained ground in the Western Church till it altogether supplanted the masculine.
Seite 90 - Majestic, from the most distant time, The sun rises and sets. Time passes and men cannot stop it. The four seasons serve them, But do not belong to them. The years flow like water. Everything passes away before my eyes.
Seite 172 - Bodhidharma,1 in the sixth century of our era, said before the Emperor Leang Wu Ti: " There is no Buddha outside the heart. Save the reality of the heart all is imaginary. The heart is Buddha, and Buddha is the heart. To imagine a Buddha outside the heart, to conceive that he is seen in an external place, is but delirium.
Seite 209 - I beg, to the headman that he may throw it into the fire, and get rid of this root of calamity. So will you preserve your people from seduction and error. And if the Buddha learns of it and can act — well — I take the responsibility — let him take vengeance on me.
Seite 51 - Manes, and which has in consequence deprived men of the benedictions of Heaven and the Manes. It is the belief that all depends on destiny, which has ruined morality, whilst suppressing the belief in the differing sanctions of good and evil. The fatalists...
Seite 215 - China agreed to a yearly payment of one hundred thousand ounces of silver and two hundred thousand pieces of silk.
Seite 29 - Genii of tue gate. The people of the house jump as a sign of grief. The prince tells them to dress the corpse. When the funeral toilet is finished, the prince strokes the deceased in the region of the heart. Then, at his invitation, the men stroke it on their side, and afterwards the women on theirs.
Seite 30 - After that, the deceased is placed in the coffin, the cover is put an, and offerings are placed in front of it. Then the prince jumps from grief. After him the son of the deceased jumps from grief. Then the prince having returned to his carriage, salutes the son by bowing. As soon as he has departed, the lamentations recommence.
Seite 29 - Then the fiance and fiancee, having each knelt down on a mat, symbolical meats are presented to them, which they taste, after having offered part of them to the Manes; they drink of the same wine, in two cups made from a gourd cut into two halves.
Seite 29 - The flan* cee's father replies: All is ready... Then the father says to his daughter: Take good care, be very attentive, obey implicitly your spouse's parents... The mother embraces her daughter, saying to her: Be very diligent, try to satisfy your mother-in-law in everything... The fiance salutes and descends the steps.