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Title: The Open court
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 Open Court Publishing company, Chicago
Subjects: Religion Religion and science
Publisher: Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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ls who supportthe sudarium hold in their other hands the cross and the pillar offlagellation. See Bartsch, VIII, p. 476, No. 16 . coes representing the miraculous recovery of the sick king Ajata-satru at the mere sight of a picture illustrating the life of Buddha.The Buddhist legend tells us that after the evil days of his youngeryears the king had become converted to the Buddhist faith and wasa most devout worshiper of the Buddha. According to a Tibetanlegend it happened that when the Buddha passed into paranirvana,into that final state of bliss where nothing bodily remains—whichmeans, as we would say of other mortals, when he died—King Ajata-satru happened to be critically ill. Maha-Kasyapa, one of the greatdisciples of Buddha, knew of his masters demise on account of the 658 THE OPEN COURT. earthquake which always takes place when a Buddha makes hisfinal entry into Nirvana, but he did not dare to break the sad newsto the king for fear that the shock would prove fatal to him. So
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ST. HELENA AND ST. VERONICA.Preserved in the Collection of Copper Engravings at Munich. About 1400. A BUDDHIST VERONICA. 659 Maha-Kasyapa invented the plan of communicating the news to theking by means of a picture which should show that the work ofsalvation so auspiciously begun and carried on by the Buddha hadnow been completed. He requested the Brahman artist Varshakarato paint the Buddhas birth, the temptation, his sermon in DeerPark, and his final entry into Nirvana. In the left lower corner of this picture we see the birth ofBodhisattva in the grove of Lumbini. Queen Maya stands in hertraditional posture, supported by a woman, perhaps her sister Pra-japati, and holding herself up by her hands to the branches of a tree,

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