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T.W. Rhys Davids says of the "Lalita Vistara" which contains a very large proportion of them, and one form of which is said to have been translated into Chinese in the first century A.D., "that there is no real proof that it existed in its present form before the year 600 A.D." The "Romantic Legend" cannot be traced farther back than the third century A.D. Oldenberg says: "No biography of Buddha has come down to us from ancient times, from the age of the Pali texts, and we can safely say that no such biography was in existence then."
Mischief of Comparisons in Comparative Mythology Not always are comparisons illuminating, it seems. So we must not, should not, simply place the myths and customs of savages side by side with those of Hindus and Greeks. It is taboo. Dr. Oldenberg Now Dr. Oldenberg, it seems, uses such comparisons of savage and Aryan faiths. Dr. Max Muller's prohibition. Or it is not demonstrated, and then Dr.
It is clear, as Professor Oldenberg well points out, that "all these rules are intended to bring the Brahman into union with water, to make him, as it were, an ally of the water powers, and to guard him against their hostility.
Among other Buddhistic peoples "Gotama" and "Gotama Buddha" are the more frequent designations. It is not easy to account for the rise of the surname Gotama in the Sakya family, as Oldenberg acknowledges. He says that "the Sakyas, in accordance with the custom of Indian noble families, had borrowed it from one of the ancient Vedic bard families." Dr. Dr.
Professor Oldenberg suggests, with much plausibility, that the Buddha was more reticent in regard to the doctrine of final extinction in the later periods of his life; that the depressing doctrine had been found a stumbling-block, and that he came to assume an agnostic position on the question.
It is full of the strong, sweet, pathetic compassion which looks upon life with eyes full of tears, but only to turn them away from it again, as from an unsolved and insoluble riddle." And he substantiates his position by quoting Réville and Oldenberg.
I was wont to think that 'scholar, as used by our learned author, meant 'philological mythologist, as distinguished from 'not-scholar, that is, 'anthropological mythologist. But now 'very thoughtful scholars, even Dr. Oldenberg, Mr. Rhys, Dr. Robertson Smith, and so on, use the anthropological method, so 'scholar' needs a fresh definition.
In his "Buddha," Professor Oldenberg, partly in answer to the grounds taken by Professor Max Müller in his lecture on Buddhistic Nihilism, has very fully discussed the question whether the ego survives in Nirvana in any sense.
See The Grihya-Sûtras, translated by H. Oldenberg, Part ii. This and the following German parallels to the story of the Sibyl's wish were first indicated by Dr. A. Kuhn und W. Schwartz, op. cit. pp. 70 sq., No. 72. 2. A. Kuhn und W. Schwartz, op. cit. p. 71, No. 72. 3.
Rhys Davids, whom Subhadra's "Buddhist Catechism" approves as the chief exponent of Buddhism, says on the same subject: "I can find no evidence of any actual or direct communication of these ideas common to Buddhism and Christianity from the East to the West." Oldenberg denies their early date, and Beal denies them an Indian origin of any date. Contrasts between Buddhism and Christianity.
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