[Buddha-l] Re: buddha-l Digest, Vol 32, Issue 17

[Bernie Simon]

> I don't recall any such instances. The Buddha told some people they had
> misunderstood him, but he did not shame them or ridicule them or speak 
> of
> them as jerks and idiots. Or so I recall from what I have read. I 
> wasn't
> actually there.

Buddha called Devadatta a lickspittle when refusing Devadatta's request 
to be made head of the sangha after Buddha's death.

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Bernie Simon