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	Rhinoceros (genus) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Rhinoceros (genus)
		Rhinoceros favour grassy swampland and are solitary animals except when raising young.
		The largest rhinoceros is the one-horned Indian rhinoceros Rhinoceros unicornis, which has a rough skin, folded into shieldlike pieces; the African rhinoceroses are smooth-skinned and two-horned.
		The African fl rhinoceros Diceros bicornis is 1.5 m/5 ft high, with a prehensile (grasping) upper lip for feeding on shrubs, and sometimes a smaller third horn.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Rhinoceros+(genus) (541 words)

	Rhinoceros Sutra - TheBestLinks.com - Buddhist, India, Pali, Oral tradition, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Rhinoceros Sutra (Pāli: Khaggavisāṇa-sutta) is a very early Buddhist text advocating the merit of solitary asceticism for pursuing enlightenment (as opposed to practicing as a householder or in a community of monks or nuns).
		The sutra, which consists of a series of verses which discuss both the perils of community life and the benefits of solitude, and almost all of which end with the admonition that seekers should wander alone like rhinocerotes.
		There is an ongoing dispute over whether the title, "sword-horn" sutra, is to be taken as a tatpuruṣa compound (a sword which is a horn) or as a bahuvrīhi compound (one who has a sword as a horn).
	www.thebestlinks.com /Rhinoceros_Sutra.html (341 words)

	Atthakavagga and Parayanavagga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		They are regarded as earlier because of elements of language and composition, their inclusion in very early commentaries, and also because they seem to express versions of certain Buddhist beliefs that are different from, and perhaps prior to, their later codified versions.
		The Khaggavisānasutta (Rhinoceros Sutra), also in the Sutta Nipāta, similarly seems to reveal an earlier mode of Buddhist monasticism, which emphasized individual wandering monastics, more in keeping with the Indian sannyāsin tradition.
		A relatively complete version of the Rhinoceros Sutra was included in the group of texts discovered in Gandhara in 1994, which are the earliest Indian manuscripts discovered; textual material from the Aṭṭhakavagga and Pārāyanavagga was also represented in the Gandhara find.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Atthakavagga_and_Parayanavagga (590 words)

	Rhinoceros Definition / Rhinoceros Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A rhinoceros is any of five surviving species of odd-toed ungulateThe odd-toed ungulates or Perissodactyla are large to very large browsing and grazing mammals with relatively simple stomachs and a large middle toe.
		rhinoceros is the smallest of the five species of rhinoceros,.
		rhinoceros is a heavy animal with a frame, like the elephant, that is graviportal.
	www.elresearch.com /Rhinoceros (218 words)

	rhinoceros - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about rhinoceros
		All that happened in the instant that Tarzan turned to meet the charge of the irascible rhinoceros might take long to tell, and yet would have taxed the swiftest lens to record.
		The rhinoceros fights with the elephant, and transfixing him with his horn carries him off upon his head, but becoming blinded with the blood of his enemy, he falls helpless to the ground, and then comes the roc, and clutches them both up in his talons and takes them to feed his young.
		In Abyssinia is likewise found the rhinoceros, a mortal enemy to the elephant.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /rhinoceros (662 words)

	Sn I.3: Khaggavisana Sutta
		Still, some scholars have noted that while the Indian rhinoceros is a solitary animal, rhinoceros horns don't wander, and that in other verses in the Pali canon, the phrase "wander alone like..." takes a person or an animal, not an animal part, for its object.
		As noted under I.1, there is evidence suggesting that the verses here were originally separate poems, composed on separate occasions, and that they have been gathered together because of their common refrain.
		As a great white elephant, with massive shoulders, renouncing his herd, lives in the wilds wherever he wants, wander alone like a rhinoceros.
	www.accesstoinsight.org /canon/sutta/khuddaka/suttanipata/snp1-03.html (1273 words)

	Rhinoceros Sutra: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The early date for the text along with its rather unusual (within community-oriented Buddhism) approach to monastic life have led some scholars to suggest that it represents a holdover from a highly primitive stage of Buddhism.
		Sutra () in sanskrit is derived from the verb √siv, meaning to sew....
		A rhinoceros (commonly called a rhino for short) is any of five surviving species of odd-toed ungulate in the family rhinocerotidae....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/rh/rhinoceros_sutra.htm (952 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: List of Buddhist topics
		Sutra (à¤¸à¥‚à¤¤à¥à¤°) in Sanskrit is derived from the verb siv-, meaning to sew (these words, including English to sew and Latinate suture, all derive from PIE *syÅ«-).
		The Tathagatagarbha Sutra is an influential and doctrinally striking Mahayana Buddhist scripture which treats of the existence of the Tathagatagarbha (Buddha-Matrix, Buddha-Embryo) within all sentient creatures.
		Tendai-shÅ« (å¤©å°å®—) is a Japanese school of Buddhism, a descendant of the Chinese Tiantai or Lotus Sutra school.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-Buddhist-topics (6584 words)

	Gandhāran Buddhist Texts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Gandhāran texts are in a considerably deteriorated form (their survival at all is miraculous), but educated guesses about reconstruction have been possible in several cases using both modern preservation techniques and more traditional textual scholarship, comparing previously known Pāli and Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit versions of texts.
		Scholarly critical editions of the texts are being printed by the University of Washington Press in the "Gandhāran Buddhist Texts" series, beginning with a detailed analysis of the Ghāndārī Rhinoceros Sutra including phonology, morphology, orthography, paleography, etc.
		In 1892 a copy of the Dhammapada written in the Gandhārī Prakrit was discovered near Khotan in Xinjiang, western China.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gandharan_Buddhist_texts (415 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum > Mahayana Sutras
		Mahayana sutras are from the second and the third turning which contain teachings on wisdom and compassion for bodhisattvas.
		Sutras were put into words much later 500 years or so after the passing of the Buddha.
		Mahayana sutras (and the tantras too) are written by later Buddhists, however, I think that they're authentic because they teach only true Dharma that fits with the earliest sutras.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/lofiversion/index.php/t22906.html (8018 words)

	Earliest Buddhism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		They are regarded as earlier because of elements of language and composition, their inclusion in very earlycommentaries, and also because they seem to express versions of certain Buddhist beliefs that are different from, and perhapsprior to, their later codified versions.
		The Khaggavisānasutta (Rhinoceros Sutra), also in the Sutta Nipāta, similarly seems to revealan earlier mode of Buddhist monasticism, which emphasized individual wandering monastics, more in keeping with the Indian sannyāsin tradition.
		A relativelycomplete version of the Rhinoceros Sutra was included in the group of texts discovered in Gandhara in 1994, which are the earliest Indian manuscripts discovered; textual material from the Attha and Parawas also represented in the Gandhara find.
	www.therfcc.org /earliest-buddhism-11864.html (384 words)

	Rhinoceros (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In Khaggavisāna-sutta (Pali for, "The Rhinoceros Sutra") the Buddha says one should wander lonely as a rhino, but the verse also suggests that a non-violent disposition and an intentional lack of desire for companionship are qualities of this animal:
		Once, the one-horned Indian rhinoceros was found in all the regions of northern Indian drained by the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra rivers.
		There are five varieties of rhinoceros in the world classified as two basic species: the African white and the fl rhinos, and the Asian type comprising the Indian rhino, and the Javan and Sumatran rhinos.
	www.khandro.net /animal_rhino.htm (1400 words)

	Definition of sutra
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		The [[sutra]] expounds the profound principle of Mahand#257;yand#...
		The Buddha in this sutra declares that this scripture is the "all-fulfilli...
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	rhinoceros - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		It is my belief that the rhinoceros is a key species in the management of...this we nearly fell over a small cow rhinoceros and her darling little calf.
		RHINOCEROS massive hoofed mammal of Africa, India, and SE Asia, characterized by a snout with one or two horns.
		The rhinoceros family, along with the horse and tapir families...endangered, with the exception of one subspecies of the white rhinoceros.
	www.questia.com /search/rhinoceros (1631 words)

	Namse Bangdzo Bookstore
		The Diamond Sutra, composed in India in the fourth century C.E., is one of most treasured works of Buddhist literature and the oldest extant printed book in the world.
		The "Heart Sutra Explained" offers new insights of "emptiness and form," and on the mantra, "gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha," and on the synthesis of Madhyamika, Yogacara, and tantric thought that characterized the final period of Buddhism in India.
		The Vairocanabhisambodhi Sutra has remained, with the Sarvatathagatatattvasamgraha (English translation by Rolf W. Giebel, The Adamantine Pinnacle Sutra, in the volume Two Esoteric Sutras, Numata Center, 2001), one of the two basic texts of East Asian Esoteric Buddhism.
	www.namsebangdzo.com /category_s/2327.htm (1652 words)

	Countrybookshop.co.uk - Gandhari Version of the Rhinoceros Sutra, A
		Examines in detail the literary and textual background of "Rhinoceros Sutra" found in the British Library's Kharosthi scrolls - the oldest Buddhist texts ever found.
		Prominent in several Buddhist traditions, the "Rhinoceros Sutra" espouses the virtues of solitude, explaining the dangers of attachments, prescribing a solitary spiritual life, and discussing the nature of friends and friendship.
		"A Gandhari Version of the Rhinoceros Sutra" examines in detail the literary and textual background of the sutra, describes the condition of the scroll and its re-construction, analyses the text, comparing it with other extant versions, and presents a literal English translation.
	www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books/index.phtml?whatfor=0295980354 (374 words)

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	Buddhist Channel \| Archaeology \| Tracing the Buddhist Path
		The writing sometimes bears striking resemblances to other known canons, such as in the first verse of the Rhinoceros Sutra, an early text found in several languages advocating solitary asceticism as a path towards enlightenment.
		The materials are classified in three basic categories: sutras, which are teachings of the Buddha; avadanas, or pious legends, which concern the Buddha or his disciples; and scholastic materials which contain debates over doctrine.
		The Gandhari manuscripts are distinguishable from the other canons in their ordering of material, the multiple hands transcribing the documents, and what seems to be the monks' willingness to alter the texts.
	www.buddhistchannel.tv /index.php?id=4,203,0,0,1,0 (1698 words)

	The world's top gandharan buddhist texts websites
		On a semi-related point, the Gandhā ran text of the Rhinoceros Sutra contains what may be a polemic against the Mahāyāna.
		The Gandhā ran texts are in a considerably deteriorated form (their survival at all is miraculous), but educated guesses about reconstruction have been possible in several cases using both modern preservation techniques and more traditional textual scholarship, comparing previously known Pā li and Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit versions of texts.
		Scholarly critical editions of the texts are being printed by the University of Washington Press in the "Gandhā ran Buddhist Texts" series, beginning with a detailed analysis of the Ghāndārī Rhinoceros Sutra including phonology, morphology, orthography, paleography, etc.
	www.websbiggest.com /wiki-article-tab.cfm/gandharan_buddhist_texts (372 words)

	READINGS IN BUDDHIST TEXTS
		The Rhinoceros Horn and other early Buddhist poems, tr.
		Sutra of Golden Light reflects yet a later development; here we have an essentially occult appeal to kings, a positive embrace of animals, and a mythologizing of the Buddhist preacher as hero in a world peopled with spirits and demons.
		Awakening of Faith in the Mahāyāna, a text indigenous to China that created the influential doctrine known as original enlightenment.
	www.albany.edu /eas/eas393.html (525 words)

	Rhinoceros Sutra Term Papers, Essay Research Paper Help, Essays on Rhinoceros Sutra
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	The Very Best Books : A Gandhari Version of the Rhinoceros Sutra: British Library Kharosthi Fragment 5B (Gandharan ...
		A Gandhari Version of the Rhinoceros Sutra: British Library Kharosthi Fragment 5B (Gandharan Buddhist Texts, 1)
		British Library Fragment 5B is the remnant of a scroll that originally contained a complete text of the Rhinoceros Sutra.
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	The Dhammapada: The Sutta-Nipâta: I. Uragavagga.
		Family life and intercourse with others should be avoided, for society has all vices in its train; therefore one should leave the corrupted state of society and lead a solitary life.
		He who is at home in (all) the four regions and is not hostile (to any one), being content with this or that, overcoming (all) dangers fearlessly, let him wander alone like a rhinoceros.
		The sensual pleasures indeed, which are various, sweet, and charming, under their different shapes agitate the mind; seeing the misery (originating) in sensual pleasures, let one wander alone like a rhinoceros.
	www.sacred-texts.com /bud/sbe10/sbe1033.htm (7995 words)

	Amazon.com: A Gandhari Version of the Rhinoceros Sutra: British Library Kharosthi Fragment 5B (Gandharan Buddhist ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Saolomon's translation of this elegant sutra is reassuringly familiar to those students of Buddhism who already know an earlier version of it.
		Though there are minor variations and differences, one's confidence in the reliability of all other received Indian texts (which have been translated and recopied endlessly over the years) is greatly reinforced.
		The scholarly preoccupations (paleography, orthography, phonology, morphology, etc.) are informative, but the sutra itself is the real payoff for those whose zeal encompasses merely a serious interest in Buddhism.
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	rhinoceros - Vinden
		Rhinoceros unicornis Endangered The biblical unicorn may have been a wild ox, but the
		great Indian rhinoceros is similar to a unicorn: it has a single horn,
		In Asia the rhinoceros is close to extinction.
	zoek.vinden.nl /?query=rhinoceros&sess=a3a3a303&where=web&target=web&vid=l646216870I1111378128&con=y&mpg=1&tag=8710665945I1111378128&pp=&pg=8 (156 words)

	geegaw.com : Ghost in the Shell
		I hadn’t seen that elephant one before, but I’m a big fan of the Rhinoceros Sutra from the Sutta Nipata, which I think is associated with the Dhammapada:
		Without covetousness, without deceit, without craving, without detraction, having got rid of passions and folly, being free from desire in all the world, let one wander alone like a rhinoceros.
		Like a lion not trembling at noises, like the wind not caught in a net, like a lotus not stained by water, let one wander alone like a rhinoceros.
	www.geegaw.com /archive/28/ghost-in-the-shell (250 words)

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