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The history of the devil and the idea of evil : from the earliest times to the present day (1900)

Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 · Chicago : Open Court Pub. Co. · leaf 154

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n.) BUDDHISM. 133 tlie evils of this world, represented in various devil per-sonalities, are conceived as incarnations of Buddha him-self, who, by showing the evil consequences of sin, en-deavors to convert mankind to holiness and virtue. We find in the Buddhist temples of China and Japanso-called… … HoNO KuRUMA, THE Cart OF Hell, (After an old Japanese painting.) statue of the highest Buddha who dwells in Nirvana al-ways stands in the centre. It is Bodhi, enlighten-ment, or Sambodhi, perfect enlightenment, that is tosay, the Truth, eternal rightness, or rather. Verity, theobjective reality…

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