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... tion . Not only had many attached themselves to him of those who were already ascetics , finding in his doctrines what satisfied them better than their own , but the movement became popular ; the enthusiasm for a homeless life became ...
... tion . Not only had many attached themselves to him of those who were already ascetics , finding in his doctrines what satisfied them better than their own , but the movement became popular ; the enthusiasm for a homeless life became ...
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... tion , that it was the teaching more than the person- the teaching primarily and the person only secondarily -that interested the early Buddhists . They did not 1 See below , p . 86 . 2 Even within the Pitakas a progress may be observed ...
... tion , that it was the teaching more than the person- the teaching primarily and the person only secondarily -that interested the early Buddhists . They did not 1 See below , p . 86 . 2 Even within the Pitakas a progress may be observed ...
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... tion in which he had passed these four weeks , and returned to the second of the four trees . There , we read , the thought occurred to him , ' I have acquired this knowledge , but it is deep and difficult , and man- kind are shallow ...
... tion in which he had passed these four weeks , and returned to the second of the four trees . There , we read , the thought occurred to him , ' I have acquired this knowledge , but it is deep and difficult , and man- kind are shallow ...
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... is of course an admission that he was not literally , at all times and of all matters , omniscient ; but an admission more creditable than damaging . tion to Benares that the episode which follows finds place 40 BUDDHISM.
... is of course an admission that he was not literally , at all times and of all matters , omniscient ; but an admission more creditable than damaging . tion to Benares that the episode which follows finds place 40 BUDDHISM.
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Reginald Stephen Copleston. tion to Benares that the episode which follows finds place . On the road to Benares , Gotama fell in with a member of one of the sects of naked ascetics , Upaka by name , himself a hermit and a seeker after ...
Reginald Stephen Copleston. tion to Benares that the episode which follows finds place . On the road to Benares , Gotama fell in with a member of one of the sects of naked ascetics , Upaka by name , himself a hermit and a seeker after ...
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