Chapter Xii. More Coincidences : * "India in Primitive Christianity", by Arthur Lille, [1909], p. 200 CHAPTER XII MORE COINCIDENCES Twelve Disciples--Love one another--Buddhist Beatitudes--The Sower--Blind Guides--Early Buddhism a religion of joy--Buddhist Baptismal Rites--Other Coincidences. I HAVE shown certain curious points...
Chapter Vi. The Mahayana : * "India in Primitive Christianity", by Arthur Lille, [1909], p. 107 CHAPTER VI THE MAHYNA New gods--All of them Siva--A Mask of Buddhism on some of them--Dhyni or Heavenly Buddhas--Dhyni Bodhisatwas--Conversion of the Relic Cairn of Early Buddhism into Siva's Lingam Disguised...
Chapter Vii. Avalokitishwara : * "India in Primitive Christianity", by Arthur Lille, [1909], p. 119 CHAPTER VII AVALOKITISHWARA The great Monastery of Nalanda--The "High Priest of all the World"--Is he the modern Pontiff of Tibet?--Siva supposed to be incarnate in each successor--Siva and Durg worshipped in all Buddhist rituals...
Chapter Iv. The Wisdom Of The Other Bank : * "India in Primitive Christianity", by Arthur Lille, [1909], p. 69 CHAPTER IV "THE WISDOM OF THE OTHER BANK" Fine mysticism of Buddhism--The man who was born blind--The Tevigga Sutta--The Sinner--The Penitent Thief--"God revealed in the form of mercy--Death of Buddha. If the Roman Catholics were...
List Of Illustrations : * "India in Primitive Christianity", by Arthur Lille, [1909], p. xi LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PLATES. PAGE FRONTISPIECE (RATHAS OF MAHBHPUR) 1.--DURG AS THE SERPENT MANAS 10 2.--TRAILINGA SHWARA 41 3.--SIVA DANCING 26 4.--THE BUDDHIST VIRGIN AND CHILD 49 5.--BUDDHA PREACHING 68 6.--THE CHAITYA LINGAM...
Chapter V. King Asoka : * "India in Primitive Christianity", by Arthur Lille, [1909], p. 84 CHAPTER V KING ASOKA King Asoka--Rock inscriptions--Only reliable records of early Buddhism--Not an atheism--Immortality--Dharma Rj--Kingdom of Justice--Helps to expose a portentous fraud--Buddhaghosa and the Ceylon records--King...
Chapter Xix. Descent Into Hell : * "India in Primitive Christianity", by Arthur Lille, [1909], p. 282 CHAPTER XIX DESCENT INTO HELL New evidence--Five bas reliefs of the Amarvat Tope--They illustrate Buddha's Descent into Hell--Details of Amarvat Tope imitate details of an early tope--Tree Worship--Tree stem a lingam--Cairn...
Chapter Ii. Baal : * "India in Primitive Christianity", by Arthur Lille, [1909], p. 27 CHAPTER II BAAL Tree and Serpent worship carried by the Phenicians everywhere--The religion of the Indian jungle--Baal in Palestine--The "Star of Chiun" (Siva)--The Mahdeos and Masseboth--Special blood-thirstiness of the Phenici...
Chapter I. Siva : * "India in Primitive Christianity", by Arthur Lille, [1909], p. 9 CHAPTER I SIVA. His legends being older, and not in Sanskrit, he has been neglected.--Found in India by the Aryans when they crossed the mountains--Siva as the Cobra, and Durg as the Tree (pestilential Indian jungle) probably...
Chapter Xvii. Alexandria : * "India in Primitive Christianity", by Arthur Lille, [1909], p. 262 CHAPTER XVII ALEXANDRIA Adi Buddha described by Hodgson--Abrasax described by Matter--Close points of contact--Mithras--His death and burial at Easter--Abrasax an individual, and also the whole body of the faithful, like Sangh...
Chapter Xv. Transubstantiation : * "India in Primitive Christianity", by Arthur Lille, [1909], p. 235 CHAPTER XV TRANSUBSTANTIATION Gibbon on the rites of the Agapae at Alexandria--Professor Horace Hayman Wilson discovers similar rites in the Indian books--The Sri Ka Chakra in the Devi Rashya--The Sacrifice of the Year-God...
Chapter Ix. Architecture : * "India in Primitive Christianity", by Arthur Lille, [1909], p. 141 CHAPTER IX ARCHITECTURE Mr. James Fergusson--The "Sangharma of Kasyapa"--Was it Elora?--Points of contact--Kails--Importance of the head of Avalokitishwara--Found on all Sivan buildings ancient and modern--Buddhist arch, the head...
Chapter Iii. Buddha : * "India in Primitive Christianity", by Arthur Lille, [1909], p. 46 CHAPTER III BUDDHA Born of a Virgin--Genealogies--The "Flower Star" in the East--Asita and Simeon--The four presaging tokens--The Prince leaves the Palace--The Bo Tree--Buddha preaches--Early biography altered--My Devi is...
Chapter Xiv. Paulinism : * "India in Primitive Christianity", by Arthur Lille, [1909], p. 225 CHAPTER XIV PAULINISM St. Paul a puzzle--Was he an ascetic mystic, or the author of the theory of the "Atonement, Original Sin," etc., in fact of priestly Christianity?--Up to the date of Irenus there is no trace of his writings...
Chapter X. The Essenes : * "India in Primitive Christianity", by Arthur Lille, [1909], p. 161 CHAPTER X THE ESSENES Was Essenism due to Buddhist missionaries?--Testimony of Asoka--The compared with the Sangharma"--Apostles of the Bloodless Oblation"--Tertullian on the similarity between the rites of the Christians...
Glossary And : * "India in Primitive Christianity", by Arthur Lille, [1909], p. 295 GLOSSARY AND INDEX. A Abrasax, a figure with Serpents for legs, 264; represented the Christos in the early church according to Tertullian, 264; is Siva as the year god who dies at Easter, 263; has affinities with Philo's Logos...
Chapter Xi. The Essene Jesus : * "India in Primitive Christianity", by Arthur Lille, [1909], p. 176 CHAPTER XI THE ESSENE JESUS Was Jesus an Essene?--Nazarites or Nazareens--Baptised by the Nazarite John--A Secret Society--"Inquire who is worthy!"--Essene Bread Oblation--Miracle of the Loaves--Probably an Essene Passover...
Introduction : * "India in Primitive Christianity", by Arthur Lille, [1909], p. 1 INTRODUCTION. THE first edition of this work, issued in 1893, had an unexpected success, especially abroad. In France, the eminent Sanskrit scholar, M. Lon de Rosny, reviewed it very favourably in the "XXme Sicle" in a long article...
Chapter Xvi. Ceylon : * "India in Primitive Christianity", by Arthur Lille, [1909], p. 245 CHAPTER XVI CEYLON Hiouen Thsiang, the Chinese traveller, on the religion of the Island in his day--"Followers of the Great Vehicle"--Bishop Copleston combats this--Three hundred Great Vehicle monks at Knchapura--Wytuli...
Chapter Xiii. Rites : * "India in Primitive Christianity", by Arthur Lille, [1909], p. 219 PLATE 15 BUDDHIST MONKS. CHAPTER XIII RITES The Abb Huc on the close similarity of Christian and Buddhist rites--Confirmed by Fathers Disderi and Grueber--Rev. S. Beal on a Buddhist liturgy--Mr. Fergusson holds that the various...
Chapter Xviii. Ophis And The Serpents : * "India in Primitive Christianity", by Arthur Lille, [1909], p. 275 PLATE 25 THE BURNING OF THE NAGA'S PALACE. CHAPTER XVIII OPHIS AND THE SERPENTS Serpent symbol everywhere in Siva-Buddhism--Unknown in early Buddhism--Legend of Buddha burning the palace of the Naga king--On a bas relief...
Title Page : * "India in Primitive Christianity", by Arthur Lille, [1909], INDIA IN PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY BY ARTHUR LILLIE (Late Regiment Of Lucknow) Author Of "Buddhism In Christianity, Buddha And Buddhism," Etc. "Ye Gave The Nazarite Wine To Drink And Commanded The Prophet, Saying, 'Prophesy Not.'"--Tati...
Chapter Viii. The Cave Temple And Its Mysteries : * "India in Primitive Christianity", by Arthur Lille, [1909], p. 131 CHAPTER VIII THE CAVE TEMPLE AND ITS MYSTERIES Maurice on Temple Worship--Description of Cave Temples--Worship the same in Egypt and Persia--Immense labour employed in constructing them. Cave Mysteries everywhere an object...