| In those days people looked down on them, thinking that such Swamis were from a very poor family and that taking to monkhood was a way of earning a living. |
| And what is to be said of the present condition of the Buddhist monkhood? |
| His attempts to force the Buddhist monkhood and his subjects to accept his religious pretensions led to a rebellion organized by minor officials near the capital. |
| And therefore the monkhood, powerful as they were, left all politics alone. |
| Buddhist monkhood was purely voluntary, so that all were free to come and go. |
| Of the internal management of the monkhood I have but little to say. |
