[6] “The vow of ‘obedience’ was never taken by the Buddhist monks and nuns, and in this it may be noticed a fundamental difference between them and monastic orders in the West: mental culture, not mental death, was the aim set before the Buddhist ascetic by the founder of his faith.”—Buddhism. T. W. Rhys Davids.

As when men, travelling, feel a glorious perfume sweet

Pervading all the country side, and gladdening them, infer at once,

Surely ’tis giant forest trees are flowering now!

So, conscious of this perfume sweet of righteousness

That now pervades the earth and heavens, they may infer:

A Buddha, infinitely great, must once have lived!’”

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