The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-07-12

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Q been about 557 b. G., and the orlina
ry estimates gives abont so wears \
! the duration Of his life. IIis rea
name was Gtntalna, or Sakya-lnunj
: as You please to select between tw
FAMILY names; he was also called Md
dareiM, "he by whom the end he ~
: eonplished," and, finally, hc WI
called the Buldba. "phe Enliehtan
ca. lie was kings sou, reared !,
the midst Of luxury. At 1g he wa,
collsecrltetl as Prince Royal by fl,
pouring Of water on his head, and VA,
married. -" w.
Much care was taken to keen from
nm ali painful sights, on the princi
pal that ignorance of sorrow Il bliss
but one day he saw, wheE he wa,
driving, an old man, for the first time
IN his life: When he understood that
to this complexion we must All com,
at last, he began to think life was d
burden and not boon, and he went
home sad Of heart. Again he saw d
sick man suffering under some loath.
some disease, and on a third occasion
ne saw q corpse. The profound i'm
preston each of these sights produced
upon his mind made the KING, his
father, very anxious, and he caused an
Immense guard to be set round the
palace to keep away all unpleasant
objects. But they lid not keen out a
monk, or ascetic, when one day the
Prince was walking in the grounds.
From that moment he resolved to
devote himself to a religious life. lie
Ind himself driven about to all the
places wherein he had formerly sought
MS pleasures. Silently he was taking
leave Of them. News was brought to
nm that the princess. his wife, had
borne him a son. ''Ihat il Il new
and strong tie for me to break. !" was
ms comment. In the night, before he
left the palace, he went to the apart-
meht Of his wife. The young mother
lay asleep, her arm over the head Of
her child. In order to see nv child /"
thought the Prince, Il must remove
the mothers arm; both will wake,
and my resolution will vanish"
30 he turned away from the thresl-
hold, shut The door, and left the pal- |
ace. lie would not even look back on
It rs ne rode away in tie open coun- |
try. BY his servants, he sent back his
morse and his garments, putting Oh
from that time, the dress of Il reciuse
and refusing all fare better than the
coarse food ordinarily given to beg
garS. He was not vet free, however.
from the yoke Of the great Branlinical
church in which he had been reared.
lie went toa great Ballmin teacher.
learned what he Taught, and went /
away disappointed. lie sought anotl,-
y With the same result. With five Of /
ms teliow-sludents he tried a life of
with severe PENNIES. After
'lX years he renounced this life so Ut
erly that his fellow students lost faith
n him reprobate. 1t was the
!lrning point Of his life; and at this
sme the great central principles which
5'lddhiSts call the -Four Great
Truths, or "i'he Wheel Of the Law
we're revealed to him. The first great
ruth i the evidence of pain. The
econd Is the source Of paill-unpcu-
atel desires. The third is the des-
ruction Of pain, or the control Of
llese desires. The fourth is the
means to destroy pain, that is. virtue.
nc Law Of Budlha is said to revolye
ncessantly in this endless wheel. al-
rays presenting sueccssively these
our points to the contemplation of the
lithfnl. = '''0
When these great truths were re-
ealed to Gnatama, the perfect science
loke over him; he became the Budd-
4. Then ''all the trees of ten thou-
IND worlds, shot out branches laden
'lth fruits and flowers. The finest
,rt Of lilies bloomed spontaneously,
nc Whole universe appeared like an
immense garden covered with flowers.
.iYers suspended their course: the
IND recovered their sight; the deaf G
'uld hear. and the lame could walk 0
eeiy.' Then it was the heart of )
'lddilaacquired an unspeakable firm !
IS, a perfect purity of exemption \
om all passions, an unalterablc a
'arnlng and strong feeling of ten +
\ compassion toward all beings. Il
e begun then to preach. but soon p
md that his work was not to be 10
liglouS one only, but a great social
form always. The great oriental hi
stem OF castles was against him, with In
root IN the established religion, and in
ramltications reached every act of III
=. For instance, the lowest of w
ties, the Cllandalas, were forced to to
Q far from all dwellings of other vi
n, to be executioners and grave all
gers, to wear the dress of condemn W
criminals, to eat only from broken mi
sels. The distinction was to en- IN!
e eternally; and by no series Of Ca
nsMigratiens eeHla The soul of 4
lndala be reborn into a higher Clt
.e. ph
{ j. almost impossible for us to m;'n' m
ceive the social range which Budd- loil %,
trayersed when he stepped down "a
II the palace 9nd became mendi- 70
[, and the companion OF meath- t.h h
t.. If the religion in which he had nun
n reared should in the end prove m 10Y
!, he had commenced a crime so w
'endous that he would become at Oh
next transmigrltion only the yilest A
u, and forfeit the benefit OF good ac- con
saccilmulatedfor millions Of years. sent
eatil Dy public execution was IiOn
ling, shame nothing, torture moth teae
compared to ,the temporal and on |
itual danger incurred by him wha n,,lt