WITH ROBES AND BOWL
                                          
                  Glimpses of the Thudong Bhikkhu Life
  
  
                           Bhikkhu Khantipalo
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                      BUDDHIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY
                        KANDY              SRI LANKA
  
                      THE WHEEL PUBLICATION NO. 83/84
  
  
                      Buddhist Publication Society
                      P.O. Box 61
                      No. 54, Sangharaja Mawatha
                      Kandy, Sri Lanka
  
                      First Printing 1965
                      Second Printing 1986
  
                      Copyright 1986 by the Buddhist 
                      Publication Society
                      
                      
                      
                     DharmaNet Edition        1994
                                     
        This electronic edition is offered for free distribution
            via DharmaNet by arrangement with the publisher.
                                          
                 Transcribed for DharmaNet by W.D. Savage
                                          
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                      "As the bird takes his wings 
              whithersoever it flies, so the bhikkhu goes
                         with robes and bowl."
  
       THE COVER [Not included in this DharmaNet edition] shows a 
       thudong bhikkhu in meditation upon his sitting-cloth, above him 
       furled up, hangs his //crot//, while to the left are his third 
       robe neatly folded in its covering cloth and his alms bowl on its 
       stand. On his right hang his candle-lamp and water-flask. Above 
       all, through the branches of the tree, the moon shines down 
       showing the traditional Buddhist hare-in-the-moon. For this story 
       see the Sasa-Jataka, in which, in which the Buddha-to-be 
       (bodhisatta) willingly lays down his life for the welfare of 
       another. The hare-in-the-moon -- which one can see if one looks 
       for it -- is thus a symbol of complete and perfect renunciation.
       
       [Illustrations not included in this DharmaNet edition]