The Open court (1897) (14595636879)

Identifier: opencourt11_1897caru (find matches)
Title: The Open court
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919
Subjects: Religion
Publisher: Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Newberry Library
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois



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The Buddha Avatar or Vishnus In-carnation AS THE EnlightenedTeacher of Mankind. The Kalki Avatar or the WhiteHorse Incarnation. The third person of the Indian trinity is Siva, the AuspiciousOne, representing the end of the world and its regeneration. Heis commonly represented by the linga as a symbol of the creativefaculty and by the all-devouring fire, the tongued flame of which ispictured in a triangle turning its point upwards A. Sir Monier Monier WillisPms (in Brah?nanism and Hinduism,p. 68) says of this deity, which is more mystical and less hu-man than the incarnated Vishnu, that his symbol, the linga, isnever in the mind of a Saiva (or Siva-worshipper) connectedwith indecent ideas, nor with sexual love. The linga, or, as theRomans called it, the phallus, the male organ of generation, be- 478 THE OPEN COURT.
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Siva and Parvati. (Reproduced from Coleman.) m-