The Foundations of Buddhism

Four Truths 8I TABLE I. The noble eightfold path right view seeing the four truths l { desirelessness wisdom right intention fri ...

Four Truths items of the eightfold path is not so transparent. Effort (6), mindfulness ( 7 ), and concentration (8) are in effec ...

Four Truths trying to make their behaviour conform to the prescriptions of the path, but simply of how they are in all they thin ...

Four Truths (speech, action, and livelihood) by the first category, good con- duct; and the final three (effort, mindfulness, an ...

4 The Buddhist Community Monks, Nuns, and Lay Followers The Buddha's followers and the origin of the Buddhist order As we saw in ...

86 The Buddhist Community Buddhists have, then, always understood the Buddha's mes- sage not only as an invitation to give up th ...

The Buddhist Community While there is considerable variation in the details of the surviv- ing Vinayas, there is a fundamental a ...

88 The Buddhist Community someone over the age of 20 the pravrajyii and the upasampadii may be performed together at one occasio ...

The Buddhist Community After upasampadii one becomes a bhik~u-a Buddhist monk proper-and as such one's life is governed by the c ...

90 The Buddhist Community admonishments of the Sangha, and corrupting families. The thirteen saf!Ighiivase$aS are followed by tw ...

The Buddhist Community 91 However, it has been argued on the grounds of inconsistencies in the nuns' Vinaya that these eight rul ...

92 The Buddhist Community cohesion of the Sangha, (2) the spiritual life, (3) the dependence of the Sangha upon the wider commun ...

The Buddhist Community 93 Vinaya's concern with the minutiae of a monk's handling of the requisites exhibits an awareness of hum ...

94 The Buddhist Community seven days;^23 finally he is discouraged from cooking.^24 If called on to preach or attend to a lay su ...

The Buddhist Community From wandering to settled life: forest dwellers and town dwellers 95 1'he ideal that the lifestyle of the ...

The Buddhist Community wanderer. Schopen takes this as reason to conclude that the Vinaya texts as we h;we them reflect a state ...

The Buddhist Community 97 cE, the most generally useful textual sources, apart from the vari- ous Vinayas, are the Pali commenta ...

The Buddhist Community of various sorts in order to handle donations of money and goods and oversee their running. The canonical ...

The Buddhist Community 99 or Paq1sukulika groups did not necessarily dwell in the forest or wear rag robes. The tendency of the ...

roo The Buddhist Community 'Yes, I have the bed and chair belonging to the Sangha, which have been put away. There is nothing el ...