The book Dialogues of the Buddha was written by author Davids, T. W. Rhys (Thomas William Rhys), 1843-1922 Here you can read free online of Dialogues of the Buddha book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Dialogues of the Buddha a good or bad book?
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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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