Dialogues of the Buddha
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And the theory seems to be httle more than a priestly protest against the doctrine, acted upon by Buddhists, Cains, and others, and laid down in the Madhura Sutta, that even youths might 'go forth' without any previous Vedic study ^.
There were, in other words, in the Indian community of that time, a number of people— very small, no doubt, com- pared with the total population, but still amounting to some thousands— who estimated the mystic power of tap as above that of sacrifice ; who gave up t...he latter, and devoted them- selves, in the woods, to those kinds of bodily austerity and 1 Baudh. II, 6, ii, 28.
^ See the passage quoted by Deussen, ' Vedanta-system, ' p. 40.
» See the full text in Chalmers's paper in the J. R. A. S. For 1894.
2l8 VIII. KASSAPA-SIHANADA SUTTA.
self-torture of which our Sutta gives the earHest detailed account. There were others who rejected both, and preferred the life of the wandering mendicant. In both classes there were unworthy men who used their religious professions for the ' low aims' set out in the tract on the Silas incorporated in our Sutta, whose very words, in not a few instances, recur in the old law books.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
And the theory seems to be httle more than a priestly protest against the doctrine, acted upon by Buddhists, Cains, and others, and laid down in the Madhura Sutta, that even youths might 'go forth' without any previous Vedic study ^.
There were, in other words, in the Indian community of that time, a number of people— very small, no doubt, com- pared with the total population, but still amounting to some thousands— who estimated the mystic power of tap as above that of sacrifice ; who gave up t...he latter, and devoted them- selves, in the woods, to those kinds of bodily austerity and 1 Baudh. II, 6, ii, 28.
^ See the passage quoted by Deussen, ' Vedanta-system, ' p. 40.
» See the full text in Chalmers's paper in the J. R. A. S. For 1894.
2l8 VIII. KASSAPA-SIHANADA SUTTA.
self-torture of which our Sutta gives the earHest detailed account. There were others who rejected both, and preferred the life of the wandering mendicant. In both classes there were unworthy men who used their religious professions for the ' low aims' set out in the tract on the Silas incorporated in our Sutta, whose very words, in not a few instances, recur in the old law books.
What to read after Dialogues of the Buddha?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Davids, T. W. Rhys (Thomas William Rhys), 1843-1922 to read onlineMoreLess
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