The Pilgrimage of Buddhism and a Buddhist Pilgrimage

The first of these is the Vinaya Pitaka or the rules of the monastic Order; the second is the -Sutta Pitaka or teachings of the Buddha; the third is the Abhidhamma Pitaka which is later than most of the others are and is devoted to the metaphysical and psychological refinements of the later scholastic systematizers. [...] The most important of these books that make up the fifth Nikaya are the four just named the Iti-vuttaka the Thera Gatha and the Theri Gatha (or Psalms of the Brethren and Psalms of the Sisters) and the Khuddaka-patha. [...] The institution of the fornightly confession among the monks the fortnightly preaching and the custom of rmaining in the monastery during the rainy season according to the Vinaya were all decreed by the Buddha as a result of suggestions from his disciples. [...] Repeatedly he is described or describes himself as one born into the world for the good of the many for the happiness of the many for the advantage the good the happiness of gods and men out of compassion for the world/'18 To the carrying out of this mission the Buddha devoted all his days after the achievement of enlightenment. [...] Sin is not for the Buddhist as it is for the Jew and the Christian a transgression of or want of conformity to the Law of God." For the Buddha there is no God in the Jewish or Christian sense; and even if there were the dominant position of the inner or subjective view in his thought would have prevented his attributing"20 THE PILGRIMAGE OF BUDDHISM any ethical importance to the objective trans