| 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 what is to be said of the present condition of the Buddhist monkhood? |
| Buddhist monkhood was purely voluntary, so that all were free to come and go. |
| In the former I noticed a large central hall, in which the ceremony of admission to the monkhood takes place. |
| In regard to the gradations of the monkhood a more complete organization exists in Burma than in Ceylon. |
| 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. |
