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Excerpt from A Catena of Buddhist Scriptures From the Chinese
The palace of the Sun - The palace of the Moon - Ou the variable splen dour of sun and moon - Ou the palace of the Star Devas - Ou birth in the Paradise of the Devas - On the conduct leading to such birth - The thirty-three Heavens - The Karma that leads to birth in these Heavens - A consecutive account of the three worlds - The size and longevity of the Devas - The Karma that leads to birth among these Devas - The comparative lustre of the bodies of Devas and men - The relative purity of food - The three worlds and the nine earths - Re specting the Lord of the Devas - The four divisions of Dhyana Heavens - The occupants of the Heavens - General summary-the five marks of decadence - Ou the way the heart generates the six.
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