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  1. Book search result icon Head & Heart Together Glossary
     … monks and nuns. On the ideal (ariya) level, it denotes those followers of the Buddha, lay or ordained, who have attained at least stream-entry. Sutta: Discourse. Sanskrit form: Sutra. Theravāda: The school of Buddhism that takes the Pāli Canon as the most reliable record of the Buddha’s words. Vinaya: The monastic discipline, whose rules and traditions comprise six volumes in printed text.
  2. Book search result icon Head & Heart Together The Buddha via the Bible
     … Think, for instance, of how some Mahāyāna traditions dropped the Vinaya’s procedures for dealing with teacher-student sexual abuse: Was this the Dhamma wisely adapting itself to their needs? The Buddha foresaw that people would introduce what he called “synthetic Dhamma”—and when that happened, he said, the true Dhamma would disappear (SN 16:13). He compared the process to what happens when … 
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