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23
Elwell,
Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible,
1:737.
24
Rawlinson,
Intercourse Between India and the Western World,
4. From footnote: Rig Veda, I.116.3.
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1:975.
27
Rawlinson,
Intercourse Between India and the Western World,
3 (emphasis added). Rawlinson commented, “Evidently from early days the Indian seamen built ships larger than those usually employed even at a much later date in the Mediterranean. . . . In the story of the invasion of Ceylon, probably in the sixth century bc . . . we hear of a ship large enough to hold over 700 people.”
28
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29
Ibid.
30
Rawlinson,
Intercourse Between India and the Western World, 7
(emphasis added).
31
Richard Overy and Geoffrey Barraclough, eds.,
The Times Complete History of the World,
7th ed. (New York: Metro Books, 2008), 78.
32
Ibid.
33
Durant,
The Story of Civilization,
422.
34
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(New York: Harper and Row 1989), 451.
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Huston Smith,
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama,
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translated by Jeffrey Hopkins (New York: Atria Books, 2009), 216.
48
Bhikkhu Bodhi, ed.,
In the Buddha’s Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon
(Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2005), 48.
Chapter Three Precursors to Buddha’s Four Noble Truths
1
In this book I cite only proverbs attributed to Solomon when referring to the Bible’s Book of Proverbs, unless noted otherwise in the text. A few chapters of Proverbs (i.e., chapters 29–31) are attributed to other authors.
2
Ecclesiastes 5:16–17 (NKJV).
3
Dhammapada 278.
4
Ecclesiastes 4:1–2 (NIV).
5
Ecclesiastes 5:15–16a (NKJV).
6
Dhammapada 277.
7
Ecclesiastes 1:8 (AMP).
8
Dhammapada 302a.
9
Proverbs 21:25–26 (NKJV) (emphasis added).
10
Dhammapada 47.
11
Ibid., 48.
12
Proverbs 14:30b (NKJV).
13
Proverbs 12:25a (NIV).
14
Ecclesiastes 4:4b (NASB).
15
Proverbs 11:6 (NIV).
16
Dhammapada 335.
17
Ibid., 338.
18
Ibid., 341.
19
Ibid., 342.
20
Ecclesiastes 5:12b (NIV).
21
Ecclesiastes 5:10–11 (NIV).
22
Proverbs 23:5 (NKJV).
23
Ecclesiastes 1:8 (AMP).
24
Proverbs 17:24 (NIV).
25
Ecclesiastes 11:10b (NIV).
26
Dhammapada 417.
27
Ibid., 418, (emphasis added).
28
Ibid., 410.
29
Ibid., 411.
30
Ibid., 412.
31
Ibid., 413.
32
Ibid., 414.
33
Ibid., 415.
34
Ibid., 416.
35
Proverbs 21:25–26 (NKJV).
36
Dhammapada 290.
37
Proverbs 14:30 (NIV).
38
Ecclesiastes 4:6 (NIV).
39
Proverbs 8:10–11 (NASB).
40
Proverbs 7:1–3 (NIV).
41
Bhikkhu Bodhi, ed.,
In the Buddha’s Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon
(Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2005), 75–76 (SN 56:11:
Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta; V 420–424).
42
Dhammapada 285.
43
Ibid., 190.
44
Ibid., 191.
45
Ibid., 192.
46
“List of the 227 Rules of Patimokkha,”
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Chapter Four Precursors to Buddha’s Right View and Intention
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Thomas Knierim, editor and webmaster, “The Noble Eightfold Path,” Raison d’Etre,
www.thebigview.com/buddhism/eightfoldpath.html
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2
Ibid. (emphasis added).
3
Proverbs 4:5a (NIV).
4
Dhammapada 243.
5
Ibid., 171.
6
Ibid., 248.
7
Ibid., 251.
8
Proverbs 7:4–23 (NIV).
9
Dhammapada 317.
10
Ibid., 318.
11
Ibid., 319.
12
Ecclesiastes 1:2 (NIV).
13
Dhammapada 170a.
14
Ibid., 174.
15
Ibid., 254.
16
Ecclesiastes 1:8 (NIV).
17
“Siddhartha Gautama: The Historical Siddhartha,” Washington State University, “World Civilizations: An Internet Classroom and Anthology,” Richard Hooker, author and principal editor,
www.wsu.edu/~dee/BUDDHISM/SIDD.HTM
.
18
Dhammapada 277.
19
Ibid., 278.
20
Ibid., 279.
21
Proverbs 11:28 (NASB).
22
Proverbs 16:8 (NKJV).
23
Proverbs 11:4 (NIV).
24
Dhammapada 251.
25
Ecclesiastes 1:9 (NASB).
26
Ecclesiastes 3:15 (NIV).
27
Dhammapada 153-154.
28
Ibid., 60.
29
Ecclesiastes 3:18–21 (NIV).
30
Will Durant,
The Story of Civilization,
Part I
: Our Oriental Heritage
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963), 509.
31
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32
Durant,
The Story of Civilization,
427.
33
Proverbs 11:3–8 (NKJV).
34
Ecclesiastes 11:1–2 (NIV).
35
John H. Walton, Victor H. Matthews, and Mark W. Chavalas,
The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament
(Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000), 575.
36
Dhammapada 109.
37
Ibid., 137–140.
38
Ecclesiastes 7:2 (NASB).
39
Ecclesiastes 2:14 (NKJV).
40
Dhammapada 6.
41
Ibid., 127.
42
Ibid., 135.
43
Ecclesiastes 5:15 (NIV).
44
Dhammapada 41.
45
Ibid., 148.
46
Ibid., 174.
47
Ecclesiastes 6:3–6 (NASB).
48
Dhammapada 287.
49
Ibid., 288.
50
Ibid., 289.
51
Proverbs 10:25 (NIV).
52
Dhammapada 21.
53
Knierim, “The Noble Eightfold Path.”
54
Proverbs 4:3–8 (NKJV) (emphasis added).
55
Proverbs 6:20–24 (NIV) (emphasis added).
56
Proverbs 8:10–11 (NIV) (emphasis added).
57
Dhammapada 282.
58
Proverbs 6:23–24 (NIV) (emphasis added).
59
Dhammapada 221.
60
Ibid., 348.
61
Ibid., 199.
62
Ibid., 249.
63
Proverbs 14:22 (NASB) (emphasis added).
64
Proverbs 14:9 (NIV) (emphasis added).
65
Dhammapada 253.
66
Proverbs 11:3 (AMP) (emphasis added).
67
Dhammapada 291.
68
Ibid., 197.
69
Proverbs 29:7 (NASB) (emphasis added).
70
Dhammapada 249.
Chapter Five Precursors to Buddha’s Right Speech and Action
1
Thomas Knierim, editor and webmaster, “The Noble Eightfold Path,” Raison d’Etre,
www.thebigview.com/buddhism/eightfoldpath.html
, retrieved May 12, 2010.
2
Ibid. (emphasis added).
3
Proverbs 18:21 (AMP).
4
Dhammapada 100.
5
Ibid., 101.
6
Ibid., 102.
7
Proverbs 15:4 (NASB).
8
Dhammapada 176.
9
Ibid., 246-247 (emphasis added).
10
Ibid., 306.
11
Proverbs 18:8 and 26:22 (NKJV).
12
Proverbs 10:20 (NIV).
13
Dhammapada 176.
14
Proverbs 17:9 (NIV) (emphasis added).
15
Proverbs 12:18 (NASB) (emphasis added).
16
Proverbs 10:21 (NIV) (emphasis added).
17
Proverbs 11:11 (NIV) (emphasis added).
18
Proverbs 16:24 (NKJV) (emphasis added).
19
Proverbs 15:4 (NASB) (emphasis added).
20
Proverbs 10:6 (NASB) (emphasis added).
21
Proverbs 12:6 (NIV) (emphasis added).
22
Proverbs 12:13 (NASB) (emphasis added).
23
Proverbs 14:23b (NKJV) (emphasis added).
24
Proverbs 21:23 (NKJV) (emphasis added).
25
Dhammapada 258.
26
Ibid., 259.
27
Proverbs 10:19 (AMP).
28
Proverbs 29:11 (NKJV).
29
Proverbs 14:23b (NKJV).
30
Proverbs 10:19 (AMP).
31
Proverbs 12:16 (NIV).
32
Proverbs 17:9 (NIV).
33
Proverbs 17:14 (NIV).
34
Proverbs 17:27 (NIV).
35
Proverbs 21:23 (NKJV).
36
Proverbs 29:11 (NKJV).
37
Dhammapada 320.