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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Teena@" data-source="post: 7429836" data-attributes="member: 266388"><img src="http://www.beyondthenet.net/buddha/gallery/Plate21a.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />                      [SIZE=-1]21. Buddhist Education.      It is a method of teaching that is based on the mental development  of the individual: The       primary object of Buddhist Education is to produce a cultured  disciplined and educated       society. With that object in view the first university to be  established in the world was       at Nalanda in India. It is reported that over ten thousand well  disciplined, cultured and       law abiding students had their education there in addition to the  numerous lecture halls       found there classes were also held in the open air under the cooling  shade of trees. [/SIZE]<img src="http://www.beyondthenet.net/buddha/gallery/Plate22a.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />                      [SIZE=-1]22. Administration of Justice.      Certain statutes regarding the administration of justice, were set  up by the Buddha for       the benefit of bhikkhus, in order to facilitate the dispensation of  moral justice       according to sound judgment, whenever the occasion arose. By this  act the Buddha ensured       that the spirit of moral justice which enables us to interpret laws  correctly, unlike the       imperfect expression of certain aspects of our present day legal  administration. At the       time of the Buddha and even later, there were kings who took  advantage of, and made use of       these laws to supplement their own. The judicial procedure adopted  by the Buddha is       clearly illustrated in the case of the Arahant Theri  Kumara-Kassapa's mother, who unaware       of her pregnant condition, with her husband's consent left her home  and entered the       Bhikkuni order. Later, finding her in an advanced state of  pregnancy, the bhikkuni was       charged with a serious allegation of misconduct and summoned before a  religious court of       appeal. The Buddha ordered Upali Thera, foremost among His Arahant  disciples in knowledge       of Vinaya matters, (and thus equal to that of the Chief Justice of  to-day), to preside,       try the innocent victim and to deliver judgment on her. The audience  consisted of       bhikkhus, bhikkunis and laymen, including the lay-woman Visakha. She  screened the victim       from the presence of the Buddha and the rest, after careful  examination and intimate       questioning declared that she was quite innocent. The Arahant Upali  on hearing the       evidence absolved the bhikkuni of any transgression. [/SIZE]</blockquote>

Verification: Hathara warak wissa keeyada? (Hathara wadi karanna 20)

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