Text of Confucianism Part 02

SR No.: 007676
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Legge
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1882
Total Pages: 2405
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 43 MB

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VII, 3, 11.
DISSENSIONS IN THE ORDER.
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name, saying, "The Teacher sends for the venerable
ones."
And he [did so), and they came, and saluted the Blessed One, and took their seats on one side. And when they were so seated, the Blessed One said to the Bhikkhus: “This, O Bhikkhus, is an impossible thing, and one that cannot occur, that one should deprive a Tathagata of life by violence. The Tathagatas, O Bhikkhus, are extinguished (in death) in due and natural course.
There are, O Bhikkhus, these five kinds of teachers now living in the world (&c., as in VII, 2, 3, 4, down to the end). And this, O Bhikkhus, is an impossible thing, and one that cannot occur, that a Tathagata should be slain by any act set on foot by any one besides himself. The Tathagatas, O Bhikkhus, are extinguished (in death) in due course (of nature). Go, therefore, O Bhikkhus, each one to his Vihara, for the Tathagatas require no protection.'
II. Now at that time there was at Râgagaha an elephant named Nalagiri, fierce, and a manslayer. And Devadatta went into Râgagaha, and to the elephant stables, and said to the elephant-keepers 1 : 'I, my friends, am a relative of the raga's, and am able to advance a man occupying a low position to a high position, and to order increase of rations or of pay. Therefore, my friends, when the Samana Gotama shall have arrived at this carriage-road?, then loose the elephant Nâlâgiri, and let him go down the road.'
· Hatthi-bhande. See the note on Mahâvagga VI, 37, 2.
! Rakkham; that is, rathy âm. Compare Gâtaka I, 346, and the Old Commentary on the Bhikkhunî-vibhanga, Pâkittiya VII.
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