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WITH ROBES AND BOWL
Glimpses of the Thudong Bhikkhu Life
Bhikkhu Khantipalo
BUDDHIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY
KANDY SRI LANKA
THE WHEEL PUBLICATION NO. 83/84
Buddhist Publication Society
P.O. Box 61
No. 54, Sangharaja Mawatha
Kandy, Sri Lanka
First Printing 1965
Second Printing 1986
Copyright 1986 by the Buddhist
Publication Society
DharmaNet Edition 1994
This electronic edition is offered for free distribution
via DharmaNet by arrangement with the publisher.
Transcribed for DharmaNet by W.D. Savage
DharmaNet International
P.O. Box 4951, Berkeley CA 94704-4951
"As the bird takes his wings
whithersoever it flies, so the bhikkhu goes
with robes and bowl."
THE COVER [Not included in this DharmaNet edition] shows a
thudong bhikkhu in meditation upon his sitting-cloth, above him
furled up, hangs his //crot//, while to the left are his third
robe neatly folded in its covering cloth and his alms bowl on its
stand. On his right hang his candle-lamp and water-flask. Above
all, through the branches of the tree, the moon shines down
showing the traditional Buddhist hare-in-the-moon. For this story
see the Sasa-Jataka, in which, in which the Buddha-to-be
(bodhisatta) willingly lays down his life for the welfare of
another. The hare-in-the-moon -- which one can see if one looks
for it -- is thus a symbol of complete and perfect renunciation.
[Illustrations not included in this DharmaNet edition]