Buddhism and Christianity: A Parallel and a Contrast

by Archibald Scott

[242]. Saint-Hilaire, Le Bouddha, p. xxiii; Hardy’s Eastern Monachism, p. 312.

[243]. “Prefix the name of God to this Declaration” (of the Rights of Man), said Abbé Grégoire to the National Assembly in 1789, “or you leave it without foundation, and make right the equivalent of force.” The Assembly refused, but events soon confirmed his judgment.—Baring Gould, Development of Belief, vol. ii. p. 88.

[244]. Sangha, originally an assembly (of disciples gathered around a Hindu sage). In Buddhism, the entire fraternity (like the Order of Francis or Dominic).—Sir Monier Williams, Buddhism, p. 176.

[245]. Robertson Smith, Prophets of Israel, p. 275.

[246]. Kullavagga, vi. 2, 3, 4; Sacred Books of the East, vol. xx..

[247]. Weber, Indian Literature, p. 306.

[248]. Dhammapadda, 141; Sacred Books of the East, vol. x. Part i.; Pâtimokkha Sekhiyá Dhammâ, 1, 2, 3, 4; ibid. vol. xiii. p. 59.

[249]. Mahâparanibhâna Sutta, iii. 65; Sacred Books of the East, vol. xi.

[250]. Kuenen, Hibbert Lectures, p. 279.

[251]. Mahavagga, i. 11; Sacred Books of the East, vol. xiii.