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... important differences : the Gîtâ ' peculiar doctrine of Karma - yoga is in the background ; the Yoga here advocated ... importance as a document of a by no means negligible phase of religious thought , and the present translation will be ...
... important differences : the Gîtâ ' peculiar doctrine of Karma - yoga is in the background ; the Yoga here advocated ... importance as a document of a by no means negligible phase of religious thought , and the present translation will be ...
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... importance therefore fully warrants the attention that has been given to it by scholars , especially since the publication of the recently discovered Manichaean manuscript fragments , chiefly from Chinese Turkestan , and the frescoes ...
... importance therefore fully warrants the attention that has been given to it by scholars , especially since the publication of the recently discovered Manichaean manuscript fragments , chiefly from Chinese Turkestan , and the frescoes ...
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Asia . Jainism has survived in India alone . It was once important politically , and still is influential through the character and wealth of its adherents . The percentage of crime is asserted to be lower among the Jains than among the ...
Asia . Jainism has survived in India alone . It was once important politically , and still is influential through the character and wealth of its adherents . The percentage of crime is asserted to be lower among the Jains than among the ...
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... importance . Of greater moment is the great scarcity of examples , and simple exercises . To correct this disadvantage , could not Major McIlroy bring out a new edition of Chamberlain's " Exercises in Japanese Writing in Roman Letters ...
... importance . Of greater moment is the great scarcity of examples , and simple exercises . To correct this disadvantage , could not Major McIlroy bring out a new edition of Chamberlain's " Exercises in Japanese Writing in Roman Letters ...
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... important legendary materials of Buddhism . The task of translating the Jâtaka was taken over by a committee of Cambridge scholars presided over by the late Professor Cowell , and after many years was completed ; now the whole huge ...
... important legendary materials of Buddhism . The task of translating the Jâtaka was taken over by a committee of Cambridge scholars presided over by the late Professor Cowell , and after many years was completed ; now the whole huge ...
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