Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c10.t3.7

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their company to him at table”*); if after this he reformed and conciliated the Order, then by a new resolution “the almsbowl would be again presented to him, and the company (of the Order) at table be granted to him.” It is evident, that what is here dealt with, is not the deprivation or the re-conferring of a legal qualification of a kind such as we are in these days accustomed to associate with membership of a Church community, but merely the interruption or revival of a purely factitious relation of daily intercourse, the giving and receiving of material gifts and spiritual instruction.