A glossary of reference on subjects connected with the Far East / by Herbert A. Giles.
- Herbert Giles
- Date:
- 1886
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A glossary of reference on subjects connected with the Far East / by Herbert A. Giles. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![classic. The first hook put into the hands of a Chinese school-boy, being a short guide to ethics, history, science, biography, etc., all in one. So called because arranged in rhyming sentences of three words to each. Composed during the Sung dynasty by Wang Po*hou, and conse¬ quently about six hundred years old. The following is a specimen:— The little Hsiang at nine years’ old conld warm his parents’ hed— Ah, would that all of us were by like filial precepts led! The baby Jung when only four resigned the envied peart Deference to elder brothers then should be our early care. [An imitation Trimetrical Classic, emhod3dng the leading doctrines of Christianity, has been published by some of the missionaries in China.] TRINITY, THE BUDDHIST. See Precious Ones, The Three. For the Taoist Trinity, see Taoism. TRIPANGr. Bicho-da-mar (q.v.). TRIPITAKA or TEPITAKA : ^ —three baskets^ or collections. The triple canon of the Buddhist scrip¬ tures, consisting of (1) the Sutras addressed to the laity, (2) the Shdstras addressed to the devas and brahmas of the celestial world, and (3) the Yinaya addressed to the priesthood. Containing about 1,752,800 words in all. These were orally preserved until the 1st century B.C. when they were committed to writing in Ceylon. In one verse Buddha summed up the whole of his religion:— ‘^To cease from all sin (Fmaya) ; To get virtue (Sutras); To cleanse one’s own heart (Shdstras); This is the religion of the Buddhas.” TSATLEE:'t:S. —seven li. A kind of silk, so called from the place where it is made. TSIEN. See Gh^en.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30093120_0272.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
