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Samyutt., 22.3. 2. Majjh., 151. „Ibid., 122. . UJ = jw NI |o» . Samyutt., 12.32. . Ibid., 25.85. 9. Angutt., 11.8; cf. 11.10; Samyutt., 22.89. co 10. Prajfiaparamita, 13.83. Quotations from the texts of the Prajfiaparamita are based on M.

Walleser's edition (Góttingen, 1914). 11. Ibid., 8.68. 12. Ibid., 15.90. 13. Vajracchedika, 17 (text of the Sacred Books of the East, "Mahayana Texts," vol. 49). 14. Prajfiapar., 22.129. 15. Ibid., 16.98. 16. Vajracchedika, 13. 17.

Ibid., 8; cf. 13, 26—in this last short chapter the formula is extended to the thirty-two attributes of a superior man (cf. p. 16); these are said really to be such when they cease to be so, as opposed to others. Cf. 26: "One who wished to see me by seeing my form or hear me by hearing my voice would struggle in vain and would not see me.

A Buddha must be seen by seeing the law, because the Lords [the Buddhas] have their body made of the law [dharmakāya—on this "body made of law" Mahayana has a vast doctrine] and the nature of the law cannot be understood, nor was it made to be understood." 18.

Prajnapar., 1.56. 19. Prajfiaparamita-hrdaya-sütra, in Sacred Books of the East, part 2, pp. 147- 48. 20. Vajracchedika, 13. 21. Prajnaparamita-sutra, op. cit. 23. The Religion of the Samurai (London, 1913). p. 137. 24. Cf. our Fenomenologia dell 'individuo assoluto (Turin, 1930), para. 30. 25.

Prajfiapar., 1.35; cf. 44. 26. Ibid., 22.127. 27. Bodhicaryavataratika, 9.53. In their turn, these Mahayana views have constituted one of the premises of Buddhist Tantrism, of the "path of lightning and of the diamond" with its development into a magic outlook on the world; on which, see our work already quoted, The Yoga of Power. 1.

Cf. our Revolt Against the Modern World. On Sukhavati, cf. the two Sukhavati-vyaha in Sacred Books of the East, vol. 49. 2. The data and the quotations from texts, in what follows, are taken from Kaiten Nukariya, The Religion of the Sumarai, and D.

Suzuki, Essais sur le bouddhisme Zen (Paris, 1940). 1. Revolt Against the Modern World, appendix. 2. Cf. ibid.. part 2, passim. 3. In reality, all the ancient forms of "telluric" civilizations developed in close connection with feminine and promiscuous cults and with the naturalistic- vital substratum of existence.

Bachofen, Das Mutterrecht, 2nd edn. (Basel, 1897). 4. Revolt Against the Modern World, pp. 120-21. 5. G. de Lorenzo, India e buddhismo antico, 5th ed. (Bari, 1926), p. 7. c . Nukariya, The Religion of the Samurai, pp. 36-50. . Cf., e.g., Majjh., 31. .

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