key quotes

  • this pair of complementary roles, patron and functionary,became the model for a wide range of social arrangements in traditional india- (Gombrieh)


  • Do not what is evil. Do what is good. Keep your mind pure. This is the teaching of Buddha.-(Dhammapada 183 )


  • it is good to control the mind. A controlled mind brings happiness- (Dhammapada 35)


  • if a monk breaks one of the four most serious rules-the parajikas- he is expelled from the Community for life (thanissaro)