[Buddha-l] Reference

[Bradley Clough]

Just to add to Lance's references, this looks to me like it was taken 
from, or at least based upon, the Vessantara Jataka, in which the 
bodhisattva, in his penultimate rebirth as a prince, famously displays 
his perfection of dana by giving away not just his material 
possessions, but his wife and children too!

Brad Clough

The American University in Cairo
bclough at aucegypt.edu


On Feb 12, 2006, at 8:35 PM, L.S. Cousins wrote:

> It's from the first chapter of Dwight Goddard's _A Buddhist Bible_ (p. 
> 6 in my 1970 edition). But that whole chapter is from P. Lakshmi 
> Narasu, _ The Essence of Budddhism_ (2nd ed., 1912, Madras), as 
> indicated in Goddard's Appendix.
>
> Lance Cousins
>
>> Anyone know the source / reference of this poem by Dwight Goddard?
>>
>> T'was not through hatred of his children sweet,
>> T'was not through hatred of his lovely wife,
>> Thraller of hearts--not that he Ioved them less--
>> But Buddhahood more, that he renounced them all.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rahula
>
> _______________________________________________
> buddha-l mailing list
> buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com
> http://mailman.swcp.com/mailman/listinfo/buddha-l
>
>

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: text/enriched
Size: 1181 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://mailman.swcp.com/mailman/private/buddha-l/attachments/20060213/34e0eb7e/attachment.bin