Buddhas Survive Quake

Health workers spray disinfectant at a collapsed temple in Yushu, China, where soldiers rescued these giant Buddhas from a collapsed temple following the 4/14 quake.

The death toll reached 2,046 in Qinghai Province, with 193 people still missing.

And now, 15 sayings of the ancient Buddhists, not in a flip-through gallery:

There is no sweet companion like pure charity.
-Foshohingtsanking

Almsgiving, it is said, constitutes the value of riches.
-Jatakamala

Good is restraint in all things.
-Dhammapada

Unselfishness, truth, and self-control.
-Jataka

Though a man conquer a thousand thousand men in battle, a greater conqueror still is he who conquers himself.
-Udanavarga

Root out the love of self.
-Jataka

The man of honor should minister to his friends... by liberality, courtesy, benevolence, and by doing to them as he would be done by.
-Sigalovada-sutta.

Practice the art of "giving up."
-Foshohingtsanking

Speak not harshly to anybody.
-Dhammapada

May I speak kindly and softly to every one I chance to meet.
-Inscription in Temple of Nakhon Vat.

Offensive language is harsh even to the brutes.
-Suttavaddhananiti

Courtesy is the best ornament. Beauty without courtesy is like a grove without flowers.
-Buddha-charita

He knew not the art of hypocrisy.
-Jataka

As he who loves life avoids poison, so let the sage avoid sinfulness.
-Udanavarga

He sees danger in even the least of those things he should avoid.
-Tevijja-sutta.


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