Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c9.s1.9

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∗ Cûlasakuludâyi Suttanta, in the Majjhima Nikâya. † A distinction of earlier and later can as yet be drawn in but few cases, and only with tolerable accuracy, in the collection of Buddha’s didactic discourses (the “Sutta-Piṭaka”). This affects the greater and lesser antiquity of dogmatic notions and doctrines as well as that of the texts. One of the oldest, if not the oldest, of these texts is the “Sutta-Nipâta,” frequently quoted in other works. We find in it already all the more important dogmatic categories and tenets enumerated or alluded to. In fact when we think what the mental labours of Brahmanism and the