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10 THE SACRED BOOKS much change the story of his death — that had been fixed by the Great Decease; but they revel in the marvels of his early life and of his victorious struggle toward Buddhaship. They will show us, too, the development of the new religion outside of India. So we give these opening chapters first from the celebrated Chinese "Life of Buddha" which was translated into Chinese about A.D. 400 from the work of the famous Buddhist missionary Asvaghosha. Then we give the accepted Burmese "life," which is of still later though uncer- tain date, and in which the man Gotama has become wholly lost amid the truly Asiatic maze of fantasy. Then follows the brief but very noteworthy song which Buddhist tradition has established as being the old and eternally recurring "birth song" which each Buddha chants in celebration at the moment of his enlightenment. Any account of Buddhist literature or Buddhist thought would be hopelessly incomplete if it did not also include something of the Jatakas, or birth-tales, to which the next section of our volume is devoted. These are included among the Suttas as being sacred teachings, yet they are really beast-fables. Just such stories had been told in India long before Buddhism arose, yet in the increasingly fantastic spirit of the new faith they were at some time, perhaps even as early as King Asoka's day, accepted as being holy. They were associated with Buddha through the doctrine of trans- migration, and were represented as being tales told by him of his previous "births" in the lower forms of life. Hence they are called "birth-tales." Having thus presented the life of Buddha from every side, we turn next to the later doctrines of Buddhism, its finally accepted preaching. This we find at its richest and clearest in the best known of all the later Suttas, the celebrated Dhammapada, which is here given in full. The name comes from dhamma, which means "law." So the book is the Great Law of Buddhism. We then close our volume with some quotations from the other most noted later Suttas.
THE EDICTS OF ASOKA "If a man's fame can be measured by the number of hearts who revere his memory, by the number of lips who have mentioned and still mention him with honor, Asoka is more famous than Charle- magne or Cœsar." — KOPEN, QUOTED IN RHYS DAVIDS' "BUDDHISM." "He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins." — BUDDHA IN THE DHAMMAPADA.
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