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IV, 1, 38.
DEVADATTA.
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"Those six young nobles, O king, Bhaddiya and Anuruddha and Ananda and Bhagu and Kimbila and Devadatta, (108] together with Upâli the barber as a seventh-they all, when the Master had attained to Buddhahood, left the Sakya home out of the delight they felt in him, and following the Blessed One renounced the world. So the Blessed One admitted them all to the Order.' .
‘But was it not Devadatta who, after he had entered the Order, raised up a schism within it?'
Yes. No layman can create a schism, nor a sister of the Order, nor one under preparatory instruction, nor a novice of either sex. It must be a Bhikkhu, under no disability, who is in full communion, and a co-resident ?!
And what Karma does a schismatical person gain ?'
A Karma that continues to act for a Kalpa (a very long period of time).'
What then, Nagasena! Was the Buddha aware that Devadatta after being admitted to the Order would raise up a schism, and having done so would suffer torment in purgatory for a Kalpa?'
Yes, the Tathâgata knew that.'
But, Nagasena, if that be so, then the statement that the Buddha was kind and pitiful, that he sought after the good of others, that he was the remover of that which works harm, the provider of that which works well to all beings, that statement must be wrong. If it be not so—if he knew not that Deva
· Hînali-kumburê takes kulâ as an ablative.
These are all termini technici in Buddhist canon law. The meaning is that other divisions in the Order do not amount technically to schism. See the Kullavagga VII, 1, 27, &c.
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