Essays On The Languages Literature And Religion Of Nepal And Tibet PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...liquors and drugs. To be clement to all living beings. The observance of the above rules shall be a pravrajya to you, and if you obey them, you shall attain to Mukti.' The aspirant then washes the Guru's feet, and having done so, returns to his seat, when the Guru having prepared the materials of pujd noted in the first day's ceremonies, makes pujd to the Kalas, after which he makes pdjd to the vessel, holding the aspirant's shorn locks. He then draws Mandals for the Tri Ratni and for himself, and makes the aspirant offer pujd to all four; when he obliterates the whole and says, 'You have abandoned the Bhikshu Charya and adopted the Maha Yan Charya; attend to the obligations to the latter, as just explained to you.' The badges of monachism are then taken from the aspirant by the Guru, who gives him the Pancha Raksha as before related, and then sends him to make the Chakra puja, which done, he causes him to perform the Guru Mandal pujd, and then to sprinkle rice on the Deities. Then the Guru Mandal is erased, the aspirant makes an offering to the Guru, and the Guru gives him his blessing. The Guru then sends the aspirant to throw into the river the hair shaven from his head and on his return makes the Agam puja and Kumari piija; when the whole is concluded by a feast. P.S.--Since the above papers were written, I have perused Mr. Turnour's essays in the Bengal Asiatic Journal, and I fully admit (as anticipated by Mr. Prinsep) that the honours of Ceylonese literature and of the Pali language are no longer disputable. I may add in regard to the latter point, that recent research has established the following very curious fact, t&., that the Sanskrit Buddhist works discovered by me in Nepaul, are now found to be copiously interspersed with...