Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c8.s1.t2.23

c8.s1.t2.23

successor, the head of the Church after the Master’s death. The notion of any head of the Church but Buddha himself is, as we shall see, foreign to Buddhism, independently of the fact that tradition could not have chosen a person more ill-adapted to give expression to this idea, than a disciple, who died before Buddha.