Texts from the Buddhist canon : commonly known as Dhammapada

INTRODUCTION.'
for investigation, and the delight which the study of
works wholly unknown to the European world must
naturally afford, ought to be a sufficient inducement to
tempt those who have the leisure to engage in this pur-
suit, and to prosecute it with determination.
man Catholic missionaries for " God "
aries in China, has some expression
(tien chu), is the common term in or other which would convey to the
Buddhist books for "Indra," or, as mind of the Buddhist, either a perwe
should say, "Jupiter." Almost
every page of the Kew Testament
verted idea, or else one repugnant
to his prejudices. Such expressions
version used by Protestant mission- ought, therefore, to be explained.
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