"Tath" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... pagan ideal, fit only for the worldly-minded, ignoble, unprofitable, and the practice on the other hand of asceticism, which is painful, ignoble, unprofitable. There is a Middle Path discovered by the Tath[a]gata[1]—a path which opens the eyes, and bestows understanding, which leads to peace, to insight, to the higher wisdom, to Nirv[a]na. Verily! it is this Noble Eightfold Path; that is to say, Right ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 - "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" • Various
... Siddhartha, the boy, Gautama by his family cognomen, the C[a]kya-son by his clan-name, was known also as the C[a]kya-sage, the hermit, Samana (Crama[n.]a); the venerable, Arhat (a general title of perfected saints); Tath[a]gata 'who is arrived like' (the preceding Buddhas, at perfection); and also by many other names common to other sects, Buddha, Jina, The Blessed One (Bhagavat), The Great Hero, etc. The Buddhist disciple may be a layman, cravaka; a monk, ...
— The Religions of India - Handbooks On The History Of Religions, Volume 1, Edited By Morris Jastrow • Edward Washburn Hopkins |
