Why Was Original Buddhism for Monks Only?
Early Buddhism was a monastic religion: the Buddha’s disciples were mendicant monks. However, there are many laypeople today who are practising Buddhists, meditating and following the eightfold Buddhist path towards nirvāṇa.This paper investigates how real this apparent inconsistency is. First, it i...
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| Language: | English |
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Eötvös Loránd University
2023-09-01
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| Series: | Távol-keleti Tanulmányok |
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| Online Access: | https://ojs.elte.hu/tkt/article/view/7295 |