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Title: Buddha and the gospel of Buddhism
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish, 1877-1947
Subjects: Buddha and Buddhism
Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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hmanical groups, and many others ofwhose views we know little. The first of these groupsdeveloped like Buddhism into an Order and a religion, andhas survived in India to the present day with an extensiveliterature and over a million adherents. The Ruleadopted by one or the other group of Wanderers variedin detail, but always embraced a certain degree ofasceticism (always including celibacy), combined withvoluntary poverty. 1 T. W. Rhys Davids, Dialogues of the Buddha^ i, 224. ProfessorRhys Davids adds the following note : The very fact of the erectionof such a place is another proof of the freedom of thought prevalent inthe Eastern valley of the Ganges in the sixth century B.C. Buddha-ghosha tells us that after \ The Hall had been established, others nearit had been built in honour of various famous teachers; but the groupof buildings continued to be known as The Hall. There Brahmans,Niganthas, Achelas, Paribbajakas, and other teachers met and ex-pounded, or discussed, their views.152
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BUDDHIST MONK (bhikkhu) Chinese, school of Long-men (8th century) Collection of Mr Victor Golonbew The Order We can now examine in greater detail the special Rulewhich was adopted in the Order founded by Gautama,and organized under his immediate guidance. We havealready mentioned the Ten Commandments, or rather,Prohibitions, which must be observed by every memberof the Order. The Brethren are also required to wear amonastic costume of yellow or orange cloth, made oftorn pieces, sewn together so as to have no commercialvalue: to seek their daily food as alms; to abstain fromfood between meals at the appointed hours : and generally,to maintain a decorous behaviour. But they are not re-quired to take any vow of life-long adhesion—on thecontrary, those who find they have no true vocation areencouraged to return to the world, where, if they cannotattain Arahatta in this life, they may yet aspire to a favour-able rebirth. Nor are the Brethren required to take anyvow of obedience to superi

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