Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c8.s1.4

c8.s1.4

What we can do is, without attempting to draw any distinction of early and later periods, merely to unite the different features which tradition places at our disposal, so as to form a connected picture, a picture of Buddha’s teaching and life, of his intercourse with high and low, of the circle of disciples gathered round him, and of the wider circles of partizans and antagonists.