524
I recommend the reader to consider carefully the passage at the end of Book IV. of Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (Haldane and Kemp's translation, vol. I. pp. 529-530). Though he evidently misunderstood what he calls "the Nirvana of the Buddhists" yet his own thought throws much light on it.
525
Sk. Bhikshu, beggar or mendicant, because they live on alms. Bhikshâcaryam occurs in Brihad-Âr. Up. III. 5. I.
526
Mahâvag. I. 49, cf. ib. I. 39.
527
Dig. Nik. VIII.
528
Cullavag. I. 1. 3.
529
Sam. Nik. XIV. 15. 12, Ang. Nik. I. xiv.
530
Mahâvag. III. 12.
531
Or the opinion of single persons, e.g. Visâkhâ in Mahâvag. III. 13.
532
Acârângasut, II. 2. 2.
533
Mahâv. I. 42.
534
But converted robbers were occasionally admitted, e.g. Angulimâla.
535
Sam. Nik. IV. XXXV., Maj. Nik. 8 ad fin. On the value attached by mystics in all countries to trees and flowers, see Underhill, Mysticism, p. 231.
536
They are abstinence from (1) destroying life, (2) stealing, (3) impurity, (4) lying, (5) intoxicants, (6) eating at forbidden times, (7) dancing, music and theatres, (8) garlands, perfumes, ornaments, (9) high or large beds, (10) accepting gold or silver.
537
These are practically equivalent to Sundays, being the new moon, full moon and the eighth days from the new and full moon. In Tibet however the 14th, 15th, 29th and 30th of each month are observed.
538
Mahâvag. II. 1-2.
539
Chap. VIII. Sec. 3.
540
Required not so much to purify water as to prevent the accidental destruction of insects.
541
It might begin either the day after the full moon of Asâlha (June-July) or a month later. In either case the period was three months. Mahâvag. III. 2.
542
Cullavag. X. 1.
543
See the papers by Mrs Bode in J.R.A.S. 1893, pp. 517-66 and 763-98, and Mrs Rhys Davids in Ninth Congress of Orientalists, vol. I. p. 344.
544
Feminine Upâsikâ.
545
Sutta-Nipâta, 289.
546
E.g. Mahâmangala and Dhammika-Sutta in Sut. Nip. II. 4 and 14.
547
Dig. Nik. 31.
548
It may seem superfluous to insist on this, yet Warren in his Buddhism in Translations uniformly renders Bhikkhu by priest.