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

[JKirkpatrick]

Thanks, Lance. 

The term cor is still in Hindi, as thief or bandit.

Joanna 



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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.

Lance
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