[Buddha-l] Non attached & mindful culinary triumphalism?

[L.S. Cousins]

Joanna asks:
> Not a culinary question, but regarding the issue of whether
> marginal people were admitted for ordination, etc.:
> Was Angulimala a tribal, a jangal-dweller or forest hunter -- or
> a villager turned criminal?
Tradition holds that he was a brahmin. That seems to follow from his 
name, given in the Majjhima sutta about him. We can infer that his 
parents were Gārgya and Mantāṇī. He is referred to as a cora or bandit. 
Richard Gombrich believes that he was a follower of proto-Śaiva 
practices. Others are sceptical.

I am not sure whether at the time of the Buddha the forest tribes would 
have had the sort of status they have later.

We can of course recall the story in the Vinaya that the six Sakya 
princes had their barber Upāli ordained before them in order to humble 
their pride. A barber was certainly of low status, although presumably 
not an outcaste if such a thing existed at the time.

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