RELIGST 2K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sangha, Abhidharma, Vinaya
17 Apr 2017
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Early developments, buddhism"s first patrons and the spread of buddhism. Monks, do not break into lamentations after i am gone, for all karmically constituted things are subject to passing away . Now, monk, i declare to you: all conditioned things are of a nature to decay - strive on untiringly. Combination of the ordinary and the extraordinary. The buddha versus a buddha, the buddha is one among many (strong, table 2. 3) The buddha"s last life is the culmination of a long bodhisattva career, which includes a large number of prior lives, called j takas (strong, table 2. 4) The buddhist canon = the tripitika (the three baskets) Once the lord was staying at savatthi, in jeta"s grove, in anathapindika"s park. And at that time the wanderer potthapada was at the debating-hall near the tinduka tree, in the single-haloed park of queen mallika, with a large crowd of about three hundred followers .
