Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c10.79

c10.79

∗ “Wassiljew, der Buddhismus,” p. 16, seq. (of the German translation). *Inter alia*, it is there said: “In fact we see the Buddha in the legends, notwithstanding the specious splendour with which they invest him, every day in his own person going out of the grove of Anâthapindika and walking to the nearest town to collect alms. In the face of this, what meaning have the cloister rules, the directions for associated life, and whatever else of the kind meets us in the Vinaya? Is it consistent with this, that a host of scholars surround the Buddha and have satiated themselves with his doctrine and have taught others?” Of course, how could scholars indeed satiate themselves with the teaching of a man, who daily goes out of a wood in person!