Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The verses and the commentary were first translated into a European language by Louis de La Vallée-Poussin, published in 1923–1931 in French, which is primarily based on Xuanzang's Chinese translation but also references the Sanskrit text, Paramārtha's Chinese translation, and the Tibetan. Currently, three complete English translations exist.
that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: The World English Bible translates the passage as: Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it. The Novum Testamentum Graece text is:
The term Brahma-nirvana appears in verses 2.72 and 5.24-26 of the Bhagavad Gita. [70] It is the state of release or liberation; the union with the Brahman . [ 8 ] According to Easwaran, it is an experience of blissful egolessness.
The three kleshas of ignorance, attachment and aversion are referred to as the three poisons (Skt. triviṣa; Tibetan: dug gsum) in the Mahayana tradition and as the three unwholesome roots (Pāli, akusala-mūla; Skt. akuśala-mūla) in the Theravada tradition. The Sanskrit, Pali, and Tibetan terms for each of the three poisons are as follows:
From the darkness lead me to the light! From death lead me to immortality! The more common modern translation differs slightly in the translation of the first line [citation needed]: From falsehood lead me to truth, From darkness lead me to light, From death lead me to immortality. These three statements are referred to as the three Pavamana ...
Nirvana is the goal of many Buddhist paths, and leads to the soteriological release from dukkha ('suffering') and rebirths in saṃsāra. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Nirvana is part of the Third Truth on "cessation of dukkha " in the Four Noble Truths , [ 3 ] and the " summum bonum of Buddhism and goal of the Eightfold Path ."
He wanders the universe in the form of a naked Kapali mendicant, begging for alms with Brahma's kapala (skullcup) as his begging bowl, until his sin is expiated upon reaching the holy city of Varanasi. Another legend describes Bhikshatana's visit to the Deodar (Pine) Forest to dispense the ignorance of sages and lead them to true knowledge ...
The term God-of-the-gaps fallacy can refer to a position that assumes an act of God as the explanation for an unknown phenomenon, which according to the users of the term, is a variant of an argument from ignorance fallacy. [17] [18] Such an argument is sometimes reduced to the following form: