Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c7.s2.8
Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c7.s2.8
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c7.s2.8
Our sources of information are quite too incomplete for us to be able, while resting on the sure ground of transmitted facts, to trace even the most prominent only of the landmarks in the further development of Indian monasticism. Conjectural constructions must here come to our aid, which, even where they show with tolerable certainty something like what must have taken place, yet utterly fail us if we seek for those touches, which could impart to the picture of this evolution an appearance of life.