2. Dhamma is Saddhamma only when it teaches that besides Pradnya and Sila what is necessary is Karuna.
1. There has been some difference of opinion on the issue as to foundation of Buddha's Dhamma.
2. Is Pradnya alone the foundation of his religion? Is Kanma alone the foundation of his religion ?
3. The controversy had divided the followers of the Buddha into two schools. One school held that Pradnya alone is the foundation of the Buddha's religion. The other school held that Karuna alone is the foundation of the Buddha's religion.
4. These two schools still remain divided.
5. Both the schools seem to be wrong if judged in the light of the Buddha's own words.
6. There is no difference of opinion that Pradnya is one of the two pillars of the Buddha's religion.
7. The dispute is whether Kamna is also a pillar of his religion.
8. That Karuna is a pillar of his religion is beyond dispute.
9. His own words can be quoted in support of it.
10. In days gone by there was a country called Gandhara, in which was a very old mendicant afflicted with a very loathsome disease, which caused him to pollute every place he occupied.
11. Being in a certain Vihara belonging to the place, no one would come near him or help him in his distress. 12. On this Buddha came with his 500 followers, and obtaining all sorts of necessary utensils and warm water, they together visited the place where the old mendicant lay.
13. The smell in the place was so offensive that all the Bhikkus were filled with contempt for the man; but the World-honoured, causing Sakra-deva to bring the warm water, then with his own hand began to wash the body of the mendicant and attend to his maladies.
14. Then the earth shook, and the whole place was filled with a supernatural light, so that the king and the ministers, and all the heavenly host (Devas, Nagas, etc.) flocked to the place, and paid adoration to Buddha. 15. Having done so, they all addressed the World-honoured, and quired how one so highly exalted could lower himself to such offices as these, on which Buddha explained the matter thus :
16. "The purpose of Tathagata in coming into the world, is to befriend those poor and helpless and unprotected, to nourish those in bodily affliction, whether they be Samanas or men of any other religion—to help the impoverished, the orphan and the aged, and to persuade others so to do."
1. There has been some difference of opinion on the issue as to foundation of Buddha's Dhamma.
2. Is Pradnya alone the foundation of his religion? Is Kanma alone the foundation of his religion ?
3. The controversy had divided the followers of the Buddha into two schools. One school held that Pradnya alone is the foundation of the Buddha's religion. The other school held that Karuna alone is the foundation of the Buddha's religion.
4. These two schools still remain divided.
5. Both the schools seem to be wrong if judged in the light of the Buddha's own words.
6. There is no difference of opinion that Pradnya is one of the two pillars of the Buddha's religion.
7. The dispute is whether Kamna is also a pillar of his religion.
8. That Karuna is a pillar of his religion is beyond dispute.
9. His own words can be quoted in support of it.
10. In days gone by there was a country called Gandhara, in which was a very old mendicant afflicted with a very loathsome disease, which caused him to pollute every place he occupied.
11. Being in a certain Vihara belonging to the place, no one would come near him or help him in his distress. 12. On this Buddha came with his 500 followers, and obtaining all sorts of necessary utensils and warm water, they together visited the place where the old mendicant lay.
13. The smell in the place was so offensive that all the Bhikkus were filled with contempt for the man; but the World-honoured, causing Sakra-deva to bring the warm water, then with his own hand began to wash the body of the mendicant and attend to his maladies.
14. Then the earth shook, and the whole place was filled with a supernatural light, so that the king and the ministers, and all the heavenly host (Devas, Nagas, etc.) flocked to the place, and paid adoration to Buddha. 15. Having done so, they all addressed the World-honoured, and quired how one so highly exalted could lower himself to such offices as these, on which Buddha explained the matter thus :
16. "The purpose of Tathagata in coming into the world, is to befriend those poor and helpless and unprotected, to nourish those in bodily affliction, whether they be Samanas or men of any other religion—to help the impoverished, the orphan and the aged, and to persuade others so to do."
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