[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Religion and philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion) › [Early Monastic Buddhism](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.dutt-1941) › v1.c19.s1.1 # Early Monastic Buddhism v1.c19.s1.1 Early Monastic Buddhism v1.c19.s1.1 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c19.s1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.dutt-1941.v1.c19.s1.1) Buddha started his mission as an eremetical teacher and had hardly any intention of forming a Saṅgha. The Vinaya tradition shows that the idea of a Saṅgha was thrust upon him, but once he had taken it up, he did his best to place it on as thorough a basis as possible. Every delinquency on the part of a bhikkhu reported to him had his immediate attention, and a rule was framed to avert its future repetition, and this was done with a view to, in the words of Buddha, \*appasannānaṃ va pasādāya pasannāṃ va bhiyyobhāvāya\* (to make the non-believers believing and the believers doubling their faith). - [Previous: v1.c19.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.dutt-1941.v1.c19.20) - [Next: v1.c19.s1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.dutt-1941.v1.c19.s1.2) - [Up: v1.c19.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.dutt-1941.v1.c19.s1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.dutt-1941.v1.c19.s1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.dutt-1941.v1.c19.s1.1) · Pramāṇa