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Buddhist brotherhood. He asked the per-
mission of the Buddha to create a new order
under his own leadership, but was refused.
This refusal made him break openly with
Buddhism and he founded a new and stricter
order which was supported by Adjatastru. The
rules of the New Order were impracticable in
as much as they were strict and harsh. Deva-
datta formally called upon the Buddha to in-
troduce his rules into the old order, but the
latter “ answered that his precepts could be
kept in any place, that he had no objection to
such members of the order as wished to do so
keeping stricter rules, but that they were not
necessary, and could not be kept at all by the
young or delicate.”
It was equally possible to attain heaven “at
the foot of a tree or in a house”, in cast off
rags, “or in clothes given by laymen”. To
establish a hard-and-fast rule would hinder
the progress of those sober and calm ‘house-
holders’ who could not become asetics.
Buddhist brotherhood. He asked the per-
mission of the Buddha to create a new order
under his own leadership, but was refused.
This refusal made him break openly with
Buddhism and he founded a new and stricter
order which was supported by Adjatastru. The
rules of the New Order were impracticable in
as much as they were strict and harsh. Deva-
datta formally called upon the Buddha to in-
troduce his rules into the old order, but the
latter “ answered that his precepts could be
kept in any place, that he had no objection to
such members of the order as wished to do so
keeping stricter rules, but that they were not
necessary, and could not be kept at all by the
young or delicate.”
It was equally possible to attain heaven “at
the foot of a tree or in a house”, in cast off
rags, “or in clothes given by laymen”. To
establish a hard-and-fast rule would hinder
the progress of those sober and calm ‘house-
holders’ who could not become asetics.