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Excerpt from The Path of Light: Rendered for the First Time Into English Fromt He Bodhicharyavatara of Santi-Deva, a Manual of Maha-Yana Buddhism
About a hundred miles north from Benares, on the border of Nepal, where the plain of the Ganges begins to rise to the uplands at the edge of the mighty Himalayas, lies a little region which was once the home of the Sakyas, a class of Kshatriyas, or men of the warrior caste. To Suddhodana of Kapila - vastu, a nobleman of the Gautama family of this tribe, was born about 560 b.c. A son Siddhartha. When he grew up Siddhartha likewise married and begot a son, Rahula by name. And then, when he was about twenty-nine years of age, as tradition relates, Siddhartha became weary of the world and the ?esh. The ghastly riddle of Life - Life with its endless vicissitudes of phantom pleasure and ever-renewed pain - was ceaselessly pressing itself upon him, as it has pressed itself upon so many thousands of other Hindus, and he could find no rest in his father''s home. So he left the world, to become a wandering beggar-student, in the hope of finding the key to the great mystery in the teachings of some master of philosophic lore. But none of the teachers whom he met could satisfy the hunger of his soul, and the severest mortifications of the ?esh brought him no light.
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About a hundred miles north from Benares, on the border of Nepal, where the plain of the Ganges begins to rise to the uplands at the edge of the mighty Himalayas, lies a little region which was once the home of the Sakyas, a class of Kshatriyas, or men of the warrior caste. To Suddhodana of Kapila - vastu, a nobleman of the Gautama family of this tribe, was born about 560 b.c. A son Siddhartha. When he grew up Siddhartha likewise married and begot a son, Rahula by name. And then, when he was about twenty-nine years of age, as tradition relates, Siddhartha became weary of the world and the ?esh. The ghastly riddle of Life - Life with its endless vicissitudes of phantom pleasure and ever-renewed pain - was ceaselessly pressing itself upon him, as it has pressed itself upon so many thousands of other Hindus, and he could find no rest in his father''s home. So he left the world, to become a wandering beggar-student, in the hope of finding the key to the great mystery in the teachings of some master of philosophic lore. But none of the teachers whom he met could satisfy the hunger of his soul, and the severest mortifications of the ?esh brought him no light.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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L. D. Barnett
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ISBN - 9780265420805
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