Pre Historic Nations Or Inquiries Concerning Some of the Great Peoples And Civ
Pre Historic Nations Or Inquiries Concerning Some of the Great Peoples And Civ
Baldwin John Denison
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They existed at the time of his death. The Buddhist books give an ac- count of three great convocations of his disciples. The first was convened by his favorite disciple Ananda imme- diately after his death. The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society [vol. Vi. , p. 303] has the following statement con- cerning it : " The Chinese work, the Foufa-thsang-yaan- Iting, contains the following remarkable notice respecting Ananda : ' After the death of Buddha, he collected 500 pious men in the CAVERN of ...Pi-pho-lo [the tree of Photi], and jointly with them collected the Vinayas. ' Of Kassapo, another of Buddha's disciples, the same work says : ' He collected a great assembly in the CAVERN of Pi-ho-lo and in other places, and arranged the Abidharmas. ' From these passages it appears that cavern-excavations must have been contemporary with, or even prior to, Buddha [Sakhya]. " 2. In the second place, these excavations are most nu- merous, in India, away from the region on the Ganges that was the birthplace and immediate home of Buddhism.
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