[8] This information may be found in Max Müller’s Vagrakkhedika, and represented, doubtless, at the period when it was written, a considerable part of the knowledge available on the subject.
[9] By Max Müller.
[10] The Chinese Ma-Ming.
[11] Compare the Chinese text of the Chi-Sin-Pien—The Awakening of Faith.
[12] In the preface to The Vagrakkhedika.
[13] “Supreme spiritual wisdom.” In Beal’s Kin-Kong-King, “The unsurpassed, just, and enlightened heart.” (Sanscrit, “Annuttara Samyak Sambodhi Hridaya.”)
[14] According to the text of The Diamond Sutra, the intellect of Sakyamuni Buddha sank so profoundly into the past, that he was enabled to speak confidently of his experiences in previous incarnations. (Compare pp. [56, 57].)
[15] From the text adopted by Mr H. Oelsner, M.A., Ph.D., for The Temple Classics.
[16] Dr Edkins, in his scholarly work Chinese Buddhism, seems to have regarded “the Law or body of doctrine” as an accurate definition of Dharma.
Dr Eitel, in his Handbook of Chinese Buddhism, explained Dharma by “Fah”—“Law”; and observed that it is “a general term for religious objects, especially for the Buddhistic Canon.”