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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY AUGUST 19 1909.
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THE BUDDHA'S ABHEST
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO., LTD.
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FOR
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NAPLES, GENOA, ALGIERS,
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· BRISBANE,' SYDNEY & MEL- BOCRNE
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· PRINI WALDEMAR", Capt. F. Isaka
'GOEVEN "
Capt. B. Wilhelmi
21st August.
TO SAIL
About FRIDAY,
WEDNESDAY,
25th Aug1, Neo's.
About THURSDAY,
16th August,
"PRING WALDEMAR" ...........
Capt. F. 1seke ...........
About FRIDAY,
10th September.
"DERFFLINGER",
Capt. E. Zachariae
Foi further Paṛticulars, apply to
No. 1 DOCK.
Docking Length ..515 ft.
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Width of Entrance 80
Water on Blocks ...... 28
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No. 2 DOCK.
Docking Length......376 ft.
Width of Entrance... 50 ».
Water on Blocks
26,
NO. 3 DOCK. KIN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION
Docking Length....481 it Width of Entrance... 63, Water on Blocks...... 25.5
~HISR DOOKS are conveniently simmatöd in Yokohama harbour and the attention of THIS
Captalos and Engineers is respectfully called to the advantages offered for Docking and repairing Vessels and Machinery of every description,
The plus and tools are of recent patterns for dealing quickly and cheaply with work and a large stock of maturial is always at hand; (plates and angios' all being tasted by Lloyda sarvayon).
Two powertal Twin Screw Towboats are available for taking Vessels in or om of Dock, and for taking Suming Vessels to or out lot the bay. The floating, derrick li capable
of lifting 40 tons.
in the Middle Land, iba creed, of the Sakys Munt had spread to myriads beyond the Scow
SOME SIDELIGHTS ON RECENT. DISCOVERY. Mountains, to grow and flourish for long cen
turies. Southwards, too, prince V jayo and ... STARTLING ACHIEVEMENTS.
his little band of adventurer. had säken” their beliefs to Caylon, and Burma, Siam" and Java The discovery of a little casket containing were ready for the now reaching, The creed what purports to be, the ashan of Gaclama which rejects caste while retaining the vital Buddha in a relic-chamber outside Peshawar, teaching of the East could always find a place is one of the most startling, archæological | in the heart of those to whom the doors of achievements of the last hundred years. When Brahmaniam were' for ever barred, the invad- we remember that the teachings of this great, ing Gresk or Scythian, the Tibetan of the astet farm at the present day the religion of mountain passes, the Mongolian of the distant 400,000,000 souls, and when wo consider what isles beyond the "nuncise—the oldest and yet would be the effect upon Christian Europe of the newest of the children of the East. the discovery of some relic of Christ, which could with chitalory be dated back to the third or fourth century, we can form some faint ides of what this discovery means to many millions of our eastern fellow-beings. Buddhism is to day to a very great extent centred round the adoration of sacred relice; the innumerable dagabas which are the distinguishing feature of Ceylon scenery, the pagadas of Burma, Siam and the further East, the tooth relic at Kandy, the sacred foolprint on Adam's Peakmall those are instances of the tendency.
THE GREAT RENÚNCIATION, The dagaba, whether a huge mass of brick and stone, as in the case of the Shwe Dagon at Mandalay, or the ruined piles of Anuradha pura, or a tipy bell-shaped erection such as may be son to every Sinhalese village or
the latter are now caly heaps of rubble for the most part is a relic chamber. In a small
rendered by this means at once inviolable sad' practically indestructible, and at the same The cust of Docking, and' arpair work, will be lound to compare favourably with, thus time' exposed to the worship of the pinus. It' of any port in the world,
Sisam Launches of Beal or Wood, Lighters, Stos Balldings and Roots, Bridge anywhere in the Gandhara district-though Work, and all kinds of Machinery are made on the premises.
Tanders, will be made up whom inquired and the workmanship and material will be cavity in its contre jeposes the sacred object,
· NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD. rentred.
Hongkong, 16th August, 1909.
MELCHERS & CO.,
GENERAL AGENTS, HONGKONG & OHINA.
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
FRENCH MAIL LINES:
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was in the year 543. A. D., according to the accepted tradition, that, the great reacher,
A large mooring basin is available alongside our own works for maoring vessels whilst after forty-five years of toil, spiritual strug under repairs.
Telephone: Nos, 876, 606, or 881. Telegrams, "Dock, Yokohama," Codes A. B. 0. 4th and 5th Ed“.
~~ Liebera, 'Bootts, WA. 1, and Watkins. Yokohama, April 28th, 1903.
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Transhipment on the Oo, Steamers at Stugapore for Bataylaat-Golombo-for-nicotta, Honbay and Australia; at Port Baid for the Lerant, Constantinople and Black Sea.
Through Tickets to London via Paris fion £27.10 up to £71,10.20 hours' rallway from Marsallias to Loonna,"
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Hongkong, 17th August, 1909.
P. de CHAMPMORIN,
AGENT,
QUEEN'S BUILDINGS.
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MESSACERIES CANTONAISES.
FRENCH LINE OF STEAMERS BETWEEN Hongkong. CANTON AND
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Departure from Hongkong at 10 PM. (Saturdayı axcoptod), Departure from Gatos at 5,45 P.M. (Sundays excepted),
These superb steamers carre ng the French Mall are fitted throughout with Bioctalc Light and Fans and were specially bullt för this trade. Excellent cuisine.
The Company's Own Wharf near Wing Lok Street and its berth in Canton opposite Shameen,
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Bongkong, 9th October, 1908,
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No. 9 PEDDER'S HILL, a Commodious Five-roomed walling House with Servants Quarter, next to the Masonic Club.
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gles and ceaseless preaching, lay down' in the sala, grave of the Mallas, to render up the tile be had given to the service of his fellow-men. This was at Kapilavasto, be held in the offices of the Company, Queen's not far fi in the sacred city of Kashi, the modera Benares. It has been the custom-13rd August, 1909, at ta o'clock Nopa, for the purpose of receiving the report of the Director perhaps owing to the publication of works on Buddhism by writers not altogether competent
Rnd, the Statement of Accounts to the 30th June, 1909.. to study the subject "in 'its, proper Hindu en-
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as a unique phenomenon. This is not so, Rys Mr.H, G. Rawlinson in the Times of India The Buddha, in putting aside the world, and exchanging his prince's manila and sceptre för the yellow robes and begging bowl of the ascetic, was only 'd sing what many and many a Hindu bas done before and after him. Students of Marathi pocity will remam. HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LIMITED.
·ber the ballad of Gopichand; the old Diwan of Kipling's story will be familiar, to” a large" audience. This difference, however, in the case of the Buddha, ws, that he was intent, not on the talvation of his own 'squi coly, but upon reverting the path to his fellowmeu.
EARLY BUDDHISM.
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accordance with the Provisions of No. 104 - of the Articles of Association the General Managers have this day declared an INTERIM DIVIDEND for the half year ended 30th-June, 1903, of TWO DOLLARS per Share,
DIVIDEND WARRANTS may be obtained on application at the Office of the Company on and aker WEDNESDAY," and instant,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from, the zoth instant to the 24th instaut, both days inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.,
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We know little of the history of Huddhism from the death of the founder until the con- "värsion`at Asoką, 'Asoka was the greatest 'of 4hb÷Maurya”monarchs; his grandfather, the famous Chandragupta, had raised himself from the position of a polty taja to be ruler of the whole of the Middle Laud, the sacred best of India from Patos to the Puojab, Meanwhile the great. Alexander had come, and gone as he bad come; further attempts at Saleucid aggression had been repoland; and when the young and brilliant Asoká, crowded ja z69 B.C.; became a convert, Buddhism became the State religion...of Northern India. Nor did it cease to be the dominant religion of the North with the The well-known and famous brandy · dissolution of the Maurya Empire. The
Intimations,
JUST LANDED:
Bactrian Greeks, pashed ever auchward 'Bisquit Dubouche
by the Saka or Hun tribes' of the Scythian steppes,-established for themselves a king- dom in the Punjab, and the great Greek Menander, whose rule extended as far as that of Asoka himself, and even included the sacred Magadhaterritory for a while, was, perhaps, the most brilliant convert that Buddhism.ever made. The story of his conversion, and his disputes on difficult questions of Buddhist philosophy with the sage Naga-Sega, are told in. that fascinating book of dialoguer, "The Quei. tions of Milinda." But Greek rule in the Eart was destined to perish as 'it came, and the Scythians, who had driven them across the Oxos, gradually assumed the place which their predecessors had held, as the dominant power of Aryan India. When the Kushan, or Scythian dynasty first established itself in lodía is un. known, but we imagine that it was about 120 A. D., when Kadishka, the fast and greatest of the three great Buddhist monarchs of North India, ascended the throne. Kanishka in ip every sensa
THE CONSTANTINE OF THE BAST.
A great and glorious rufer, he spread the in- Raenes of Buddhism into distani Khotan; be beat the armies of the Emperor of China, and defeated the attacks of the Parthians; while ho "may be actually responsible for-the-conversion- of China and Japan to the religion he so royally championed. At home, in his royal city of Peshawar, he was equally, magnificent." "Ho adopted the gold coinage of the Romane: hat entertained his deighbour princes of the north's be received and befriended that price of travel. fers and writers, Huneo Tsang, the Master of the Law. In his capital he built a great Hall of Audience for the priests, and a relic-tower, which may have actually entbriped the relics which hava now so strangely come to light. Greatest of all his achievements, bo convened a great council to examine and codify all the Buddhist writings, and having laboriously compiled the great canon which wo row bave, he caused it to be engraved pu copper- plates and buried in a stupa. Lucky "indeed will be the finder of that priceless record And so passed this great and religious king, a. typical Eastern monarch, splendid in war, pious in good works in peace, and with bir
88-86, Des Voeux Road, Central, the glory of Buddhism in India passed away
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