Buddhism [antikvár]

BUDDHIST DIALECTiCS Rahul SankritjajanIn buddhxsm there is no place either for god (creator of the universe) or for a revealed book. Morality is based on the act being good or bad. Those who believe in god subject morality also to tha will of godwhatever is prescribed by god is good and whatever is prohibited by him is evil. Here buddhism differs, it considers the "good of many, happiness of many" {bahujana hitaya bahujana siikhaya) to be the criterion of good and evil.Socioeconomic ViewsIn the economic and political fields also the views of Buddha are different. He had prescribed the ideal of service for the monks and nuns. He had called those who did not conform to this ideal as "useless consumers of the nation's wealth" (mogham sa ratthapindam hhunjati). He enjoined upon them to adopt communal living. He had introduced the system of economic communism in the community of monks and nuns. Apart from the eight items (of personal use), such asb-l