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PREFACE

          It is now three years since these lectures were written, and in the intervening time a number of important works on Buddhism have been published, both in France and in other countries. I regret that the only reference that I can make to them here is to deplore the fact that these lectures were unable to profit from them. Never­theless I hope to remedy this in the not too distant future, as I move forward along the path upon which I am setting out today.

          It gives me great pleasure to express my gratitude to the Director and to the members of the Academic Board of the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London, who invited me to deliver these lectures. My thanks are due also to the translators, Dr. R. E. Asher and Dr. I. M. P. Raeside, assistant lecturers in Linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, and to Mr. A. W. Macdonald of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientijique de France.

          April 1956                                                  P.L.

CONTENTS

1. Ordination AND THE Buddhist Hierarchy in Theravadin Communities: I
2. Ordination AND THE Buddhist Hierarchy in Theravadin Communities: II

• ‘The March towards the light’ among the Northern Buddhists

1. The First Council, the Corpus of the Law, AND Ananda, prototype of the candidate FOR ORDINATION
2. Saints’ Lives or Initiation Themes
3. Primitive Buddhism and ‘Mystery Religions’

Index

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