Identifier: opencourt11_1897caru (find matches)
Title: The Open court
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919
Subjects: Religion
Publisher: Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Newberry Library
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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Fig. 17. The Trinity.From Hans Schaufeleiuss prayer book Via Felicitatis. (Reproduced from Muther.)
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Fig. i8. The Holy Trinity in the Vatican.After Pietro Berrettini. Reproduced from // Vaticano, plate xx. THE TRINITY IDEA, 97 to stories in the lives of both Buddha and Christ. The most curi-ous among them are Krishnas escape from a massacre of children,arranged by a Hindu Herod for the purpose of killing the newborngod, and his transfiguration shortly before his death. Pictures ofthe Krishna child at the bosom of his mother remind us very muchof similar subjects in Buddhistic and Christian art (Compare Fig,II with Fig. 12), Well known is also the thoughtful legend thatwhile Krishna plays the flute (Fig. 6), every one of the dancingshepherdesses believes that the swain whom she embraces is thegod himself. The Buddhist trinity (Fig. 13) is different from the trinity ofthe Brahmans. The Buddhists take refuge in the Buddha, theDharma, and the Sangha, every one of them being a manisfesta-tion of the bodhi, the enlightenment that leads to the salvation ofNirvana. Not exactly the same, but

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