Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c8.s1.t2.32

c8.s1.t2.32

Princes and nobles, Brahmans and merchants, we find among those who “took their refuge in Buddha, the Law, and the Order,” *i.e.*, who made their profession as lay-believers; the wealthy and the aristocrat, it seems, here also exceeded the poor; to reach the humble and wretched, the sorrowing, who endured yet another sorrow than the great universal sorrow of inpermanence, was not the province of Buddhism.