{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/ipc/ipc01.htm","path":"bud/ipc/ipc01.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/ipc/ipc01.htm","text":"India in Primitive Christianity, by Arthur Lille, [1909]\n| | PAGE | \n| CHAPTER I | | \n| S\u2019IVA | | \n| His legends being older and not in Sanskrit he has been neglected\u2014Found in India by the Aryans when they crossed the mountains\u2014S\u2019iva as the Cobra, and Durg\u00e2 the Tree (pestilential Indian jungle) probably the oldest gods in the world.\u2014S\u2019iva as the Ph\u0153nician Baal.\u2014Esoterically a noble Pantheism fighting with the Polytheisms around.\u2014The S\u2019iva-Durga cultus rises everywhere far above other religions and also sinks lower\u2014Invents the Yogi and the Yoga philosophy\u2014Invents the Hypostases\u2014Great importance of Ga\u1e47es\u2019a in the history of civilisation | 9 | \n| CHAPTER II | | \n| BAAL | | \n| Tree and Serpent Worship carried by the Ph\u0153nicians everywhere\u2014The religion of the Indian jungle\u2014Baal in Palestine\u2014The \"Star of Chiun\" (S\u2019iva)\u2014The Mah\u00e2deos and Masseboth\u2014Special blood-thirstiness of the Ph\u0153nician divinity\u2014Holy of Holies of Jewish Temple, and \"Sanctuary of the S\u2019iva-linga\" in India | 27 | \n| CHAPTER III | | \n| BUDDHA | | \n| Born of a Virgin\u2014Genealogies\u2014The \"Flower star\" in the East\u2014Asita and Simeon\u2014The Four Presaging tokens\u2014The Prince leaves the palace\u2014The Bo Tree\u2014Buddha preaches\u2014Early biography altered\u2014M\u00e2y\u00e2 Devi is Durg\u00e2\u2014Dasasatanayana, S\u2019iva the \"thousand eyed,\" blesses him when he leaves the palace\u2014Other changes | 46 | \n| p. vi | | \n| | PAGE | \n| CHAPTER IV | | \n| THE WISDOM OF THE OTHER BANK | | \n| Fine mysticism of Buddhism\u2014The man who was born blind\u2014The Tevigga Sutta\u2014The Sinner\u2014The Penitent Thief\u2014\"God revealed in the form of Mercy\"\u2014The Death of Buddha | 69 | \n| CHAPTER V | | \n| KING ASOKA | | \n| King Asoka\u2014Rock inscriptions\u2014Only reliable records of early Buddhism\u2014Not an atheism\u2014Immortality\u2014Dharma R\u00e2j\u2014Kingdom of Justice\u2014Helps to expose a portentous fraud\u2014Buddhaghosa and the Ceylon records\u2014King Wijayo\u2014Date altered by Buddhaghosa one hundred years\u2014Fictitious \"Second Convocation\"\u2014Mahindo, Asoka's son, visits Ceylon\u2014Vast literature of S\u2019iva-Buddhism palmed upon him\u2014Brief of modern English missionaries in their attack on Buddha | 84 | \n| CHAPTER VI | | \n| THE MAHAYANA | | \n| New gods\u2014All of them S\u2019iva\u2014A mask of Buddhism on some of them\u2014Dhy\u00e2ni or Heavenly Buddhas\u2014Dhy\u00e2ni Bodhisatwas\u2014Conversion of the relic cairn of early Buddhism into S\u2019iva's Lingam disguised as a Chaitya\u2014Chaitya worship at Mathur\u00e2\u2014S\u2019iva-Buddhism a worship of S\u2019iva with \"Left-handed\" T\u00e2ntrika rites\u2014It is to be found in all Buddhist kingdoms\u2014Rapid survey | 107 | \n| CHAPTER VII | | \n| AVALOKITESWARA | | \n| The great Monastery of Nalanda\u2014The \"High Priest of all the World\"\u2014Is he the modern Pontiff of Tibet?\u2014S\u2019iva supposed to be incarnate in each successor\u2014S\u2019iva and Durg\u00e2 worshipped in all Buddhist rituals\u2014Great revolution effected by King Kanis\u2019ka\u2014Strong remonstrance on the part of the \"High Priest of all the World\"\u2014He declares that the encroaching cultus is pure S\u2019ivism and Nihilism | 120 | \n| p. vii. | | \n| | PAGE | \n| CHAPTER VIII | | \n| THE CAVE TEMPLE AND ITS MYSTERIES | | \n| Maurice on Temple Worship\u2014Description of Cave temples\u2014Worship the same in Egypt and Persia\u2014Immense labour employed in constructing them\u2014Cave mysteries everywhere an object of dread\u2014Cicero on them\u2014Eleusis\u2014Lucian on the Tree Festival at Hieropolis\u2014Bacchantic Festivals derived from S\u2019iva as Somn\u00e2th (lord of Soma the first intoxicant)\u2014These festivals still secretly celebrated in India | 131 | \n| CHAPTER IX | | \n| ARCHITECTURE | | \n| Mr. James Fergusson\u2014The \"Sanghar\u00e2ma of Kasyapa\"\u2014Was it Elora?\u2014Points of contact\u2014Kail\u00e2s\u2014Importance of the head of Avalokitishwara\u2014Found on all S\u2019ivan buildings ancient and modern\u2014Buddhist arch the head of the Cobra\u2014Serpent not worshipped in Buddhism until union with S\u2019ivism\u2014Fergusson on the Lingam\u2014Calls it a \"Dagoba\"\u2014Believes the Kail\u00e2s temples at Elora and the Mahabalipur Rathas to have been intended for dormitories of Buddhist monks\u2014Proposition contested\u2014Strange discovery that Avalokitishwara's head is very plentiful on both these old groups of rock-detached temples | 141 | \n| CHAPTER X | | \n| THE ESSENES | | \n| Was Essenism due to Buddhist Missionaries?\u2014Testimony of Asoka\u2014The \u03bc\u03bf\u03bd\u03b1\u03c3\u03c4\u03ae\u03c1\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd, compared with the Sanghar\u00e2ma\u2014\"Apostles of the Bloodless Oblation\"\u2014Tertullian on the similarity between the rites of the Christians and the Mithraists\u2014Testimony of Philo\u2014Thirty thousand monks go from Alexandria to Ruanwelli in Ceylon and are hospitably received on the occasion of the consecration of the great temple there. B.C. 170 | 162 | \n| CHAPTER XI | | \n| THE ESSENE JESUS | | \n| Was Jesus an Essene?\u2014Nazarites or Nazareens\u2014Baptised by the Nazarite John\u2014A secret society\u2014\"Inquire who | | \n| p. viii | | \n| | PAGE | \n| is worthy!\"\u2014Essene Bread Oblation\u2014Miracle of the Loaves\u2014Probably an Essene Passover gathering\u2014The Codex Nazar\u00e6us\u2014The earliest gathering of Christians at Rome, Essene water-drinkers and vegetarians\u2014The Gospel according to the Hebrews\u2014Gospel of the Infancy | 176 | \n| CHAPTER XII | | \n| MORE COINCIDENCES | | \n| Twelve Disciples\u2014Love one another\u2014Buddhist Beatitudes\u2014The Sower\u2014Blind Guides\u2014Early Buddhism, a religion of joy\u2014Buddhist baptismal rites\u2014Other coincidences | 200 | \n| CHAPTER XIII | | \n| RITES | | \n| The Abb\u00e9 Huc on the close similarity of Christian and Buddhist rites\u2014Confirmed by Fathers Disderi and Grueber\u2014Reverend S. Beal on a Buddhist liturgy\u2014Mr. Fergusson holds that the various details of the Christian basilica have been taken from the temples of the Buddhists\u2014On which side was the borrowing?\u2014Arguments pro and con. | 219 | \n| CHAPTER XIV | | \n| PAULINISM | | \n| St. Paul a puzzle\u2014Was he an ascetic mystic, or the author of the theory of the \"Atonement,\" \"Original Sin,\" etc., in fact of priestly Christianity?\u2014Up to the date of Iren\u00e6us there is no trace of his writings, nor even of his teachings\u2014Did he convert Peter and James as described in \"The Acts?\" James, Peter, John the Evangelist and Matthew all Nazarites\u2014also Paul\u2014Were they all instrumental in making the water-drinking Essenes drink wine?\u2014Valentinus\u2014\"Left-handed gods\"\u2014Early Zodiac of S\u2019iva | 225 | \n| CHAPTER XV | | \n| TRANSUBSTANTIATION | | \n| Gibbon on the rites of the Agapae at Alexandria\u2014Professor Horace Hayman Wilson discovers similar rites in the | | \n| p. ix | | \n| | PAGE | \n| Indian books\u2014The S\u2019r\u00ee Ka Chakra in the Dev\u00ee Rashya\u2014The Sacrifice of the Year-god in the Kal\u00ee Ka Pur\u00e2na\u2014Its analogy with the Roman Catholic Eucharist\u2014Both sacrifices make-believe\u2014Startling points of contact with the great Mystery-play in Tibet\u2014Description of the \"Sacrificial Body of the Dead Year\"\u2014Stabbed and cut to pieces\u2014Great scramble for the fragments\u2014New Year as in Alexandria represented by a baby covered with flour | 235 | \n| CHAPTER XVI | | \n| CEYLON | | \n| Hiouen Tsiang, the Chinese traveller, on the religion of the Island in his day\u2014\"Followers of the Great Vehicle\"\u2014Bishop Copleston combats this\u2014Three hundred \"Great Vehicle\" monks at K\u00e2nchapura\u2014Wytulian heresy\u2014Kappooism\u2014S\u2019iva as Saman Deva R\u00e2ja supreme in the Island\u2014Dewales and Buddhist Viharas in the same enclosures\u2014Cure of the sick officially handed over to the Kappooists\u2014Sekkraia (S\u00eeva as Indra) a man, half man, half stone\u2014S\u2019ivan \"Mystery\"\u2014The \"Inebriating Festival of the Buddha\"\u2014Legend\u2014Temple women\u2014Kattragam or Karttikeya\u2014His power and popularity | 245 | \n| CHAPTER XVII | | \n| ALEXANDRIA | | \n| Adi-Buddha described by Hodgson\u2014Abrasax described by Matter\u2014Close points of contact\u2014Mithras\u2014His death and burial at Easter\u2014Abrasax,\u2014an individual, and also the whole body of the faithful, like Sangha, and also St. Paul's \"Christ\"\u2014Points of contact between Kattragam and the Logos of Philo\u2014Abrasax has two serpent legs\u2014So has Padmap\u00e2ni in the sculptures of Jemalgiri\u2014Close analogies between Sekkraia and Serapis\u2014Each is half man, half stone\u2014Description of the advent of the Son of Man in the Gospels quite different from what was expected, but quite in harmony with S\u2019iva's Pralaya | 263 | \n| p. x | | \n| | PAGE | \n| CHAPTER XVIII | | \n| OPHIS AND THE SERPENTS | | \n| Serpent symbol everywhere in S\u2019iva-Buddhism\u2014Unknown in early Buddhism\u2014Legend of Buddha burning the palace of the N\u00e2ga King\u2014On a bas relief of the Sanchi Tope\u2014The Serpent and the Lotus leaf\u2014Valentinus\u2014Dhy\u00e2ni Buddhas\u2014Saktis or Wives of the Dhy\u00e2ni Buddhas\u2014Gnostic Aeons\u2014They also have their Saktis\u2014Violent attack of Tertullian on these Saktis\u2014Valentinus and Fourth Gospel\u2014Valentinus and Serpent worship\u2014The Gnostic Christos a Serpent\u2014Cainites and Naasseni\u2014The \"Thousand-eyed (Dasasatanayana)\" in Alexandria | 276 | \n| CHAPTER XIX | | \n| DESCENT INTO HELL | | \n| New evidence\u2014Five bas reliefs of the Amar\u00e2vat\u00ee Tope\u2014They illustrate Buddha's Descent into Hell\u2014Details of Amar\u00e2vat\u00ee Tope imitate details of an early tope\u2014Tree Worship\u2014Tree stem a lingam\u2014Cairn Worship\u2014Cairn a lingam\u2014Roman Catholics maintain that their rites give the life of Jesus in epitome\u2014Question examined\u2014Not the life of the Jesus of the first three gospels\u2014A \"willing victim\"\u2014Suffers at night\u2014Herod Antipas, the \"King of the Jews\"\u2014An originality of Luke\u2014Why brought in\u2014His dress the same as that of a Catholic Bishop\u2014The \"Amice,\" the Hoodwinking rag of the Freemasons\u2014The spear thrust\u2014Blood and water\u2014Baby New Year, in Alexandria and Tibet\u2014Covered with flour\u2014Tertullian on \"Eleusinian dissipations\" | 282 |","title":"India in Primitive Christianity: Contents","type":"page"}