[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Religion and philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion) › [The History of Buddhist Thought](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.thomas-1933) › c19.44 # The History of Buddhist Thought c19.44 The History of Buddhist Thought c19.44 - **Language:** English ### [c19.44](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.thomas-1933.c19.44) Now before my enlightenment, while yet a bodhisatta and not yet fully enlightened, I thought, oppressive is life in a house, a place of dust. In the free air is abandonment of the world. Not easy is it for him who dwells in a house to practise a completely full, completely pure, and perfect religious life. What if I remove my hair and beard, and putting on yellow robes go forth from a house to a houseless life. Now at another time, while yet a boy, a black-haired lad in the prime of youth, in the first stage of life, while my unwilling mother and father wept with tear-stained faces, I cut off my hair and beard, and putting on yellow robes went forth from a house to a houseless life.¹ - [Previous: c19.43](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.thomas-1933.c19.43) - [Next: c19.45](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.thomas-1933.c19.45) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.thomas-1933.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.thomas-1933.c19.44](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.thomas-1933.c19.44) · Pramāṇa