The Buddhist Religion: A Historical Introduction
64 CHAPTER THREE respect for teachers and elders. Still, his language, modes of expression, and injunctions betray a Buddhist or ...
THE DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY INDIAN BUDDHISM 65 Dispensaries and medicinal herb gardens were set up for the treatment of human and a ...
66 CHAPTER THREE listen to and learn from one another. To honor other sects, he said, was to honor one's own. Paradoxically, in ...
THE DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY INDIAN BUDDHISM 67 According to tradition, Asoka's successors showed no interest in continuing his poli ...
68 CHAPTER THREE offense for a monk to persist in fomenting schism within the Sangha after the assembly has formally warned him ...
THE DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY INDIAN BUDDHISM 69 to store food overnight. However, eating meat is not forbidden, as long as the monk ...
70 CHAPTER THREE that certain foods are impure, that bodily wastes pollute spiritually, that certain acts or objects are lucky o ...
THE DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY INDIAN BUDDHISM 71 tion, receive instruction from a tutor, who must meet the same qualifications as the ...
72 CHAPTER THREE whom she planned to live, and again by the local assembly of monks. She, too, had to undergo a period of appren ...
THE DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY INDIAN BUDDHISM 73 on a year-round basis. Although some monks continued their dry-season wan- Jierings, ...
74 CHAPTER THREE be called in to reassert communal authority. It was perhaps for this reason that the early texts warn of the da ...
THE DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY INDIAN BUDDHISM 75 ~ffiere are no monks; the nuns shall schedule their Observance Day in line with ~h~ ...
76 CHAPTER THREE inferiority. The Verses of the Women Elders (the Pali Canon's Therigatha)-an anthology of73 poems celebrating A ...
THE DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY INDIAN BUDDHISM 77 first generation, and modern scholars have often assumed that this silence is a sign ...
78 CHAPTER THREE but not plants. The precept is broken if, knowing that something is a living being and intending to kill it, on ...
THE DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY INDIAN BUDDHISM 79 birth in a heaven. Those desiring to enhance their practice of virtue were en- coura ...
80 CHAPTER THREE own purposes. For example, in the myth of the Buddha, Queen Maya gave birth to her son under a tree; the Buddha ...
THE DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY INDIAN BUDDHISM 81 his absence, the stiipa offers a physical focus for the contemplation of the im- per ...
4 The Rise and Development of Mahayana Buddhism 4.1 THE RISE OF MAHAYANA D uring the two c~nturies from 100 B.C.E. to 100 c.E., ...
THE RISE AND DEVELOPMENT OF MAHAYANA BUDDHISM 83 routes in central Asia at the same time that Buddhist missionaries were active ...
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