Concept
Refuge in Buddhism
Overview
religious concept in Buddhism
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The malbelievers regularly employed men to watch their devâlaya, to sweep and water all about it, to burn incense, light the lamps, and present offerings; but in the morning the lamps were found to have been suddenly removed, and in the vihâra of Buddha. The Brahmans were indignant, and said, "Those Sramanas take our lamps and use them for their own service of Buddha, but we will not stop our service for you!"
Confucius, Chinese literature
Close in meaning to Refuge in Buddhism; the term itself is not named.
These qualities proved all the more effective in bringing about the exaltation of the human into the divine. Thus, they enable us to understand how it was possible for the cult of the original deities to be crowded into the background by that of those who later came to be gods. This is emphatically brought out in the Buddha legends, many of which represent the ancient Hindoo gods of the Veda as the servants of the…
Wilhelm Max Wundt, Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind
Close in meaning to Refuge in Buddhism; the term itself is not named.
His "religion," which it would be better to call a system of hygiene, in order to avoid confounding it with a creed so wretched as Christianity, depended for its effect upon the triumph over resentment: to make the soul free therefrom was considered the first step towards recovery. "Not through hostility is hostility put to flight; through friendship does hostility end": this stands at the beginning of Buddha's…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen
Close in meaning to Refuge in Buddhism; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Refuge in Buddhism
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Place in the tradition
Part of Dharma.