“Rightly have the Burmans termed their Monks Hpongyi, ‘Great Glory’; for they have made of them the pattern and ensamplar of their lives”

The Thāthanābaing By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett)

“Rightly have the Burmans termed their Monks Hpongyi, ‘Great Glory’; for they have made of them the pattern and ensamplar of their lives” [via]

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  2. “they knew that, owing to the lack of that authority, bad characters were taking to the Yellow Robe; who, free from all wholesome discipline, committed evil deeds unchecked in the very Temples of the Master”
  3. “He knows, indeed, his Monk has nothing more to give, for there is in Buddhism no priestly office, no intercession between earth and heaven that the Monk can make. But the merit of his charities depends, in this Religion, on the holiness of the recipient; and so the Burman expects from his ‘Great Glory’ only that he shall live according to the Law.”
  4. “If in mans’ heart of hearts there reigned this Self, come from eternity and but a pilgrim on its changeless way, could there be in his nature aught of folly or of evil, or any limit to his wisdom and his love?”
  5. “Mankind has begun to emerge from the nursery-days of its intellectual up-bringing, and the ex cathedrâ ‘must’ and ‘must not’ of the theologic schools fails daily more and more completely to satisfy the legitimate demands of the intelligence of man.”