Buddhist Hymns: Versified Translations from the Dhammapada and Various Other Sources

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Open Court Publishing Company, 1911 - Всего страниц: 40

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Стр. 7 - ... the piece, failed to produce the intended tune and harmony. He then donned a white woolen dress, joined the band of musicians, beating the drum, ringing the bell, and tuning the lyre, and this done, the melody in full perfection gave a note at once mournful and soothing, so as to arouse in the mind of the audience the idea of the misery, emptiness, and non-atman-ness of all things. The five hundred royal princes in the city thus moved all at once were fully awakened, and abhorring the curse of...
Стр. 7 - Acvaghosha had the melody played by musicians, who, however, not being able to grasp the significance of the piece, failed to produce the intended tune and harmony. He then donned a white woolen dress, joined the band of musicians, beating the drum, ringing the bell, and tuning the lyre, and this done, the melody in full perfection gave a note at once mournful and soothing, so as to arouse in the mind of the audience the idea of the misery, emptiness, and non-atman-ness of all things. The five hundred...
Стр. 6 - ... That is to say, the music roused in the mind of the hearer the thought that all aggregates are visionary and subject to transformation ; that the triple world is a jail and a bondage, with nothing enjoyable in it ; that since royalty, nobility, and the exercise of supreme power, are all characterised with transitoriness, nothing can prevent their decline, which will be as sure as the dispersion of the clouds in the sky ; that this corporeal existence is a sham, is as hollow as a plantain tree,...
Стр. 7 - The fact agrees well with Taranatha's statement which in its German translation reads as follows: "Die von ihm verfassten Loblieder sind auch in alien Landern verbreitet ; da zuletzt Sanger und Possenreisser dieselben vortrugen und bei alien Menschen des Landes mil Macht Glauben an den Buddha entstand, erwuchs dutch die Loblieder grbsserer Nutzen zur Verbreitung der Lehre.
Стр. 7 - ... since royalty, nobility, and the exercise of supreme power, are all characterised with transitoriness, nothing can prevent their decline, which will be as sure as the dispersion of the clouds in the sky ; that this corporeal existence is a sham, is as hollow as a plantain tree, is an enemy, a foe, one not to be intimately related with ; and again that like a box in which a cobra is kept, it should 1 The fact agrees well with...
Стр. 6 - Rdstavaraf), that he might by this means convert the people of the city. Its melody was classical, mournful, and melodious, inducing the audience to ponder on the misery, emptiness, and non-atman-ness of life. That is to say, the music roused in the mind of the hearer the thought that all...
Стр. 21 - ... link together the ever-lengthening chain of evil deeds. Morality proceeds from the understanding of self as an appearance, it is an episode in the deliverance of the suffering being from the evil and misery of the world. The following...
Стр. 10 - In the writer's opinion the classical music of Europe is pervaded by the deep religious spirit which may very well be regarded as Buddhistic.

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