“A life of holiness, dignified by a deep learning in the Sacred Law, and graced by an unassuming modesty rare”

The Thāthanābaing By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett)

“A life of holiness, dignified by a deep learning in the Sacred Law, and graced by an unassuming modesty rare” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “Rightly have the Burmans termed their Monks Hpongyi, ‘Great Glory’; for they have made of them the pattern and ensamplar of their lives”
  2. “He knows, indeed, his Monk has nothing more to give, for there is in Buddhism no priestly office, no intercession between earth and heaven that the Monk can make. But the merit of his charities depends, in this Religion, on the holiness of the recipient; and so the Burman expects from his ‘Great Glory’ only that he shall live according to the Law.”
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  4. “How many of our hopes, our aspirations or our proud ideals remain as we had hoped and dreamed but yesterday; or which of all our great desires or high ambitions shall endure even for the little span of our poor human lives?”
  5. “this is in Buddhism accounted the true beginning of all righteousness,-unselfishness that gives all, whilst knowing yet that it shall never reap the gain”