Buddhism and Christianity: A Parallel and a Contrast

by Archibald Scott

[302]. Book of the Great Decease, v. 23; Sacred Books of the East, vol. xi.

[303]. Eitel, Lectures on Buddhism, p. 10.

[304]. Kullavagga, x. 1. 3, 4; Sacred Books of the East, vol. xx.

[305]. Clement of Alexandria gives prominence to the value of marriage and of the family life, Strom. vii., Paedag. iii. So Tertullian, Ad Uxorem, ii. c. 8.

[306]. Principal Donaldson, Contemporary Review, Sept. 1889.

[307]. Sir Henry S. Maine, Early History of Institutions, p. 341.

[308]. Kullavagga, x. 1. 6.

[309]. Kullavagga, x. 1. 27.

[310]. Pâtimokkha; Pakittiyâ Dhammâ, 6, 7, 27, 66, 67.

[311]. “You are not, O monks, to bow down before women, to rise up in their presence, to stretch out your joined hands towards them, nor to perform towards them those duties that are proper to them (from an inferior to a superior).”—Kullavagga, x. 3. 1. “Giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of God.”—1 Peter iii. 1-7.