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Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)

Religion

Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.

Name: Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.
Author: Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)

Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)

Idols and images -- Worship; Mythology; Religions

We shall at present discuss the character and constitution of the
Buddhist brotherhood of the Sangha, leaving the stories of the
introduction of Buddhism into the various countries to be told in their
respective places.


                 THE SANGHA, OR BUDDHIST BROTHERHOOD.

All of Buddha’s disciples who had taken the vows of asceticism were
known by the name of _Sangha_, meaning “congregation” or “church.”
The organization of this order had the most to do with the spread of
Buddhism. Keep in mind that, in common with almost all reformers,
Gautama, the Buddha, did not intend to cut loose from his old faith.
He hoped to make the new wine of his teachings go into the old bottles
of Brahminism. We believe that he did not intend or expect that his
religion should spread over Asia. Further, it was not so much due to
his doctrine of the Dharma, or “law,” that his religion gained so wide
an acceptance, as it was due to his establishment of the order of the
Sangha. Here is one point of wide divergence from the missionary labors
of Christianity. Its founder, Jesus Christ, did intend, and distinctly
stated His intention of giving His religion to the world. The order of
the Sangha was a _growth_. Little by little, as occasion demanded,
Gautama laid down rules for those who would be his disciples, and
unconsciously these disciples became more and more exclusive, shutting
in themselves and shutting out all others. Finally, after Gautama’s
death, they became a distinct body.


                       THE INITIATION CEREMONY.

Any one who was free from contagious disease, who was neither a slave,
a debtor nor a soldier, and who had obtained the consent of his
parents, might be admitted to the order. The following account of the
ceremony of admission has been compiled by T. W. Rhys-David, late of
the Ceylon civil service:

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Religion

Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.

Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton)

Idols and images -- Worship; Mythology; Religions

We shall at present discuss the character and constitution of the
Buddhist brotherhood of the Sangha, leaving the stories of the
introduction of Buddhism into the various countries to be told in their
respective places.


                 THE SANGHA, OR BUDDHIST BROTHERHOOD.

All of Buddha’s disciples who had taken the vows of asceticism were
known by the name of _Sangha_, meaning “congregation” or “church.”
The organization of this order had the most to do with the spread of
Buddhism. Keep in mind that, in common with almost all reformers,
Gautama, the Buddha, did not intend to cut loose from his old faith.
He hoped to make the new wine of his teachings go into the old bottles
of Brahminism. We believe that he did not intend or expect that his
religion should spread over Asia. Further, it was not so much due to
his doctrine of the Dharma, or “law,” that his religion gained so wide
an acceptance, as it was due to his establishment of the order of the
Sangha. Here is one point of wide divergence from the missionary labors
of Christianity. Its founder, Jesus Christ, did intend, and distinctly
stated His intention of giving His religion to the world. The order of
the Sangha was a _growth_. Little by little, as occasion demanded,
Gautama laid down rules for those who would be his disciples, and
unconsciously these disciples became more and more exclusive, shutting
in themselves and shutting out all others. Finally, after Gautama’s
death, they became a distinct body.


                       THE INITIATION CEREMONY.

Any one who was free from contagious disease, who was neither a slave,
a debtor nor a soldier, and who had obtained the consent of his
parents, might be admitted to the order. The following account of the
ceremony of admission has been compiled by T. W. Rhys-David, late of
the Ceylon civil service:

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.

Error's chains : $b How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.

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