History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c99.379

v7.c99.379

Buddhist (or Buddhists, acc. to context): (see under ahiṃsā, Buddhism, Siddha); goal of *nirvāṇa* (particularly under Mahāyāna) could be reached after many births 1055; hardly any B are strict vegetarians in these days in any country, while millions of Hindus are strict vegetarians, 947, monks of B. were tired of the strict mode of life and long waiting for the goal 1065; persecution (alleged) of B. by Puṣyamitra, by kings Śaśāṅka and Sudhanvan, by Kumārila and Śaṅkarācārya examined by Rhys Davids who disbelieves most of it and others also do the same, 1008–1011; Tantras have the same ideas about potency of mantras as Hindu T have, 1103–1104, 1115; Tantras like Guhyasamāja (that was Vajrayāna) provided an easy method by which liberation and Buddhahood could be secured in a short time and in one life and averred that Bodhisattvas and Buddhas enjoyed all pleasures as they pleased, 1065–66n; several councils of Buddhists were held to settle the Saṅgīti (standardized scripture) 1021.