Publication Date: 2009 Original publication Date: 1870 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.Excerpt: CHAPTER I. THE TWIN-VERSES. All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of him who draws the carriage. (1.) ' Dharma,' though clear in its meaning, is difficult to translate. It has different meanings in different systems of philosophy, and its peculiar application in the phraseology of Buddhism has been fully elucidated by Burnouf, ' Introduction a 1'Histoire du Buddhisme,' p. 41 teq. He writes: " Je traduis ordinairement ce terme par condition, d'autres fois par lots, mais aucune de ces traductions n'est parfaitement complete; il faut entendre par ' dharma' ce qui fait qu'une chose est ce qu'elle est, ce qui constitue sa nature propre, comme 1'a bien montr5 Lassen, a 1'occasiou de la celebre formule, ' Ye dharma hetuprabhav
