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" Muni simply as the founder of a new religious system, but as a great social reformer who dared to preach the perfect equality of all mankind, and the consequent abolition of caste, in spite of the menaces of the most powerful and arrogant priesthood in... "
The Bhilsa Topes: Or, Buddhist Monuments of Central India: Comprising a ... - Page 51
by Sir Alexander Cunningham - 1854 - 368 pages
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Die Religion des Buddha, Volume 1

Carl Friedrich Koeppen, Karl Friedrich Koeppen - Buddha (The concept) - 1857 - 1072 pages
...social reformer who dared to preach the perfect equality of all inankind, and the conseqnent abolitiou of caste, in spite of the menaces of the most powerful and arrogant priesthood ia the world" etc. Richtiger definirt Mi 1 1 den Buddha als „a philosophical Opponent of populär...
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Die Religion des Buddha und ihre Entstehung

Carl Friedrich Koeppen - Buddha (The concept) - 1857 - 636 pages
...dared to preach the perfcct equality of all mankind, and the cousequent abolition of caste, iu späte of the menaces of the most powerful and arrogant priesthood in the world" etc. Richtiger definirt Mi 11 deu Buddha als „a philosophical Opponent of populär superstitiou aiul...
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Mercersburg Review, Volume 10

Reformed Church - 1858 - 664 pages
...who dared to preach the perfect equality of all mankind and the social independence of the castes, in spite of the menaces of the most powerful and arrogant priesthood in the world. The general tenure of his innocent life remind us forcibly of that of our Saviour. Like Jesus he held...
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Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial ..., Volume 4

Edward Balfour - India - 1873 - 1038 pages
...an additional reason for considering Sakya Muni as one ol the chief benefactors of his country. For we must not look upon Sakya Muni simply as the founder...ab'duction of their wives and daughters by great men. To Ывд the Indians were indebted for a code of pure and practical morality which inculcated charity...
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Constituting Communities: Theravāda Buddhism and the Religious Cultures of ...

John Clifford Holt, Jacob N. Kinnard, Jonathan S. Walters - Religion - 2003 - 236 pages
...the early nineteenth century had little positive to say about Hinduism. Alexander Cunningham wrote of "the menaces of the most powerful and arrogant priesthood in the world."" In the same vein, Rajendralala Mitra described the Saivas this way: "The monks lead an easy, comfortable...
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