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Donald S. Lopez Jr.

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01 / evaluation

” It’s just a question of who accepts which text as authentic. But I think, from the point of view of, what did Buddhist monks look like in the time of the Buddha, they probably looked most like the monks in Sri Lanka in terms of the robes and their comportment.

“” It’s just a question of who accepts which text as authentic. But I think, from the point of view of, what did Buddhist monks look like in the time of the Buddha, they probably looked most like the monks in Sri Lanka in terms of the robes and their comportment.”
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03 / evaluation

Obviously, we don’t know the future. Both those distant futures and distant past are things that are unknown to us, so they’re not contested within the tradition itself.

“Obviously, we don’t know the future. Both those distant futures and distant past are things that are unknown to us, so they’re not contested within the tradition itself.”
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05 / evaluation

The idea is that Buddhist monks keep their vows, and by doing that, kingdoms are saved from famine, they’re saved from disease, they’re saved from foreign invasion. That hasn’t worked, so that patronage has disappeared, and because of that, the support for the monastic institution has declined sharply.

“The idea is that Buddhist monks keep their vows, and by doing that, kingdoms are saved from famine, they’re saved from disease, they’re saved from foreign invasion. That hasn’t worked, so that patronage has disappeared, and because of that, the support for the monastic institution has declined sharply.”
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