- Author:
- Trench Gascoigne, Gwendolen Galton
- Publication Info:
-
London:
A.D. Innes and Co,
1896,
pg 263
Text on page 263
POHN-GYEES.
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monastery for one Lent, which means about four months, or sometimes, if very pious, for two Lents. A Pohn-gyee can take his vows for any length of time that he wills, and should he desire at any
pohn-gyees teaching.
time to cast them off and go forth again into the world, it is permitted that he should do so.
No doubt Buddha was a real diplomatist, for insisting upon this law of conscription, as it mightNo doubt Buddha was a real diplomatist, for insisting upon this law of conscription, as it might
