205. Q. What does Buddhism teach about marriage?
A. Absolute chastity being a condition of full spiritual development, is most highly commended; but a marriage to one wife and fidelity to her is recognised as a kind of chastity. Polygamy was censured by the Buddha as involving ignorance and promoting lust.
206. Q. In what discourse?
A. The Anguttara Nikāya, Chapter iv, 55.
207. Q. What does it teach as to the duty of parents to children?
A. They should restrain them from vice, train them in virtue; have them taught arts and sciences; provide them with suitable wives and husbands, and give them their inheritance.
208. Q. What is the duty of children?
A. To support their parents when old or needy; perform family duties incumbent on them; guard their property; make themselves worthy to be their heirs, and when they are gone, honour their memory.
209. Q. What of pupils to the teacher?
A. To show him respect; minister to him; obey him; supply his wants; attend to his instruction.