{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/ami/ami16.htm","path":"bud/ami/ami16.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/ami/ami16.htm","text":"Amitabha, A Story of Buddhist Theology, by Paul Carus, [1906]\nPage 1.\n1 For details of the pabbajja (or initiation) and the upasampada (or ordination) see Mah\u00e2vagga, first khandaka (S.B.E., Vol. XIII).\nPage 3.\n2 The time of our story is the fifth century after the Buddha's enlightenment, which corresponds to the first century of the Christian era.\nPage 6.\n3 Cf. 'Buddhist Chants and Processions,\" Journal of the Buddhist Text Society of India, Vol. III, Part II.\nPage 10.\n4 Dhammapada, 21.\n5 Dhammapada, 223.\nPage 11.\n6 Dhammapada, 134.\n7 Dhammapada, 313.\n8 Dhammapada, 258; 240.\nPage 12.\n9 Dhammapada, 254.\nPage 31.\n10 Kevaddha's story is an abbreviated account of an ancient Buddhist Pali text. The verses as well as other details are almost literally translated. Cf. Henry Warren's Buddhism in Translations, pp. 308-313.\nPage 32.\n11 Uposatha, or confession, was held regularly on the days of the full and the new moon. For a detailed account of the ceremony see Mah\u00e2vagga, second Khandhaka (S.B.E., Vol. XIII).\nPage 40.\n12 The Greeks.\nPage 56.\n13 Padh\u00e2na sutta, 16. S.B.E., X, p. 71.\nPage 64.\n14 Dhammapada, 151.\nPage 74.\n15 Cf. T. Suzuki's translation of A\u00e7vaghosha's Discourse on the Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana, pp. 101, 142 et seq. The term \"highest truth\" is called by A\u00e7vaghosha in Sanskrit param\u00e2rthasatya.\n16 Compare Samuel Beal's Abstract of Form Lectures on Buddhist literature in China, p. 177, where we read: \"He who is possessed of the highest self, he is able to see Buddha. Buddha, although he dwell in the world, can be seen by none but those possessed of this highest self. Mah\u00e2r\u00e2ja! Most true it is that though Buddha has attained Nirv\u00e2na, yet may you behold him.\"\nPage 87.\n17 Dhammapada 5.\nPage 89.\n18 For full accounts of Prince Long-life see Mah\u00e2vagga, X, 3-20. (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. XVII.)\nPage 96.\n19 The Saddharmapundar\u00eeka, chapter 7.\nPage 98.\n20 Amit\u00e2bha (and with him Buddha) is never called Creator, but he is frequently addressed as \"Father.\" See the Saddharmapundar\u00eeka, III, 97, 104, and the Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king, III, 15, 1231.\nPage 106.\n21 The simile of the blind leader of the blind occurs in the same connection in the Tevijja Sutta, 15.\nPage 108.\n22 For the details of A\u00e7vaghosha's doctrine of the triple aspect of the highest truth (so similar to the Christian trinity) as the K\u00e2ya (i.e., body or personality) of (1) the good law, (2) transformation, (3) bliss, see T. Suzuki's translation of A\u00e7vaghosha's Discourse on the Awakening of Faith, Chicago, 1900, pp. 99-101.\nPage 113.\n23 The Ud\u00e2na, VI.\nPage 114.\n24 Dhammapada, 183\nPage 116.\n25 Dhammapada, 332-333.","title":"Amitabha, A Story of Buddhist Theology: Notes","type":"page"}