 | Josiah Conder - 1838 - 724 pages
...devotion, and self-mortification its worship. " Genuine Buddhism," it has been remarked, " never seems to contemplate any measures of acceptance with the...is capable, and by attaining which man becomes God. Genuine Buddhism has no priesthood ; the saint despises the priest ; the saint scorns the aid of mediators,... | |
 | John Cotter MacDonnell - 1858 - 312 pages
...254, Note 29), thus describes the esoteric doctrine of the Prajnikas : " Genuine Buddhism never seems to contemplate any " measures of acceptance with the Deity ; but overleaping the bar" rier between finite and infinite mind, urges its followers to " aspire, by their own efforts,... | |
 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - Occultism and science - 1877 - 744 pages
...initiates of both Testaments, the worshippers of Buddha know that they "are gods." " Genuine Buddhism, overleaping the barrier between finite and infinite...man is capable, and by attaining which man becomes a god," says Brian Houghton Hodgson.* Dreary and sad were the ways, and blood-covered the tortuous... | |
 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - Occultism and science - 1891 - 744 pages
...know that they "ai» gods." " Genuine Buddhism, overleaping the barrier between finite and inn nite mind, urges its followers to aspire, by their own...man is capable, and by attaining which man becomes a god," says Brian Houghton Hodgson.* Dreary and sad were the ways, and blood-covered the tortuous... | |
 | William Elliot Griffis - Religion - 1895 - 512 pages
...between God and man, and between gods and man, was removed by Buddhism. " Genuine Buddhism never seems to contemplate any measures of acceptance with the...is capable, and by attaining which man becomes God — and thus is explained both the quiescence of the imaginary celestial, and the plenary omnipotence... | |
 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - Occultism and science - 1919 - 384 pages
...initiates of both Testaments, the worshipers of Buddha know that they "are gods." "Genuine Buddhism, overleaping the barrier between finite and infinite...man is capable, and by attaining which man becomes a god," says Brian Houghton Hodgson.74i Dreary and sad were the ways, and blood-covered the tortuous... | |
 | Brian Houghton Hodgson - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 298 pages
...second, though distinct from, is often blended with the lir., l. with the deity ; but, overleaping1 the barrier between finite and infinite mind, urges...is capable, and by attaining which man becomes God — and thus is explained both the quiescence of the imaginary celestial, and the plenary omnipotence... | |
 | Asia - 1870 - 240 pages
...The three grades are known by the collective name of " Tri Ydna." (29) Genuine Buddhism never seems to contemplate any measures of acceptance with the...is capable, and by attaining which man becomes God — and thus is explained both the quiescence of the imaginary celestial, and the plenary omnipotence... | |
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Genuine Buddhism never seems to contemplate any measures of acceptance with the deity ; but, overleaping the barrier between finite and infinite mind, urges its followers to aspire by their own efforts to that divine perfectibility of which it teaches... 