Notes to Pages 52-63
Wijayaratna, Buddhist Monastic Life (Cambridge, 1990), 104-6.
The rules are also found in other Vinayas; see Charles S. Prebish,
Buddhist Monastic Discipline: The Sanskrit Prlitimok~a Satras of the
Mahlislif!lghikas and Malasarvlistivadins (University Park, Pa.,
1975), 104-6.
- Janice Nattier and Charles Prebish, 'MahasaJ.llghika Origins',
History of Religions, 16 (1976), 237-72; Lance Cousins, 'The "Five
Points" and the Origins of the Buddhist Schools', The Buddhist Forum,
2 (1991), 27-60.
- I am indebted to Oman Rotem for this comparison.
- SeeK. R. Norman, 'Asoka's "Schism" Edict', Collected Papers, iii.
(Oxford, 1992), 191-218.
28. Lamotte, History of Indian Buddhism, 279.
- Cf. Obeyesekere, 'Myth, History and Numerology in the Buddhist
Chronicles', in Bechert, The Dating of the Historical Buddha, i. 152-82.
30. Nal).amoli (trans.), The Path of Purification (Colombo, 1964).
- Leo Pruden's translation in 4 vols. (Berkeley, 1988) from the French
of Louis de La Vallee Poussin's translation in 6 vols. (Brussels,
1923-31) from the Chinese from the Sanskrit.
- See Gregory Schopen, 'The Inscription on the Ku1.>an Image of
Amitabha and the Character of the Early Mahayana in India',
Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, 10
(1987), 99-137, and Paul B:arrison, 'Who Gets to Ride in the Great
Vehicle?', Journal of the International Association of Buddhist
Studies, 10 (1987), 67-89.
33· Lamotte, History of Indian Buddhism, 544·
Chapter 3· Four Truths
- Majjhima Nikaya i. 140.
- SaJ.llyutta Nikaya v. 421-2.
3· See Gethin, 'The Matikas'.
4· Visuddhimagga xvi. 34-5; Di:gha Nikaya iii. 216; SaJ.llyutta Nikaya
iv. 259, v. 56; Nettippakaral).a 12. ·
5· Gombrich, Theravlida Buddhism, 57-9.
- As You Like It, ii. vii. 136-9.
7· Story of Gotama, 64-5 (Jataka 48-g).
- Lalitavistara ii. 525, 538-9 (Lefmann ed. 351, 358-9); Visud-
dhimagga xvi. 87. A. Wezler concludes that there is no evidence that
the Buddha borrowed the schema of the four truths from Indian
medical traditions; if anything, it is more likely that the latter indir-
