Buddha

the texts treat this long and important phase rather perfunctorily… after that the Buddha fades from view and the last twenty years of his life are almost entirely unrecorded.

史料空白写进弧，plot 87。

He had no “self,” his egotism had been extinguished, and he was known as the Tathagata, one who had, quite simply, “gone.”

人消解为称号，cast 85。

The disciplines of yoga were designed to destroy the unconscious impediments to enlightenment and to decondition the human personality.

概念段推进求道，pace 86。

One ninth-century master… even went so far as to command his disciples, “If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha!”

硬句开宗，prose 92。

The monks slept rough, wherever they could: “in the woods, in the roots of trees, under overhanging rocks, in ravines, in hillside caves, in cemeteries…”

游方地理立界，world 91。

Some Buddhists might say that to write a biography of Siddhatta Gotama is a very un-Buddhist thing to do.

自诘开场，hook 90。

One of the insights of the Axial Age was that the Sacred was not simply something that was “out there;” it was also immanent and present in the ground of each person’s being

轴心框架新读，innov 89。

As a flame blown out by the wind Goes to rest and cannot be defined, So the enlightened man freed from selfishness Goes to rest and cannot be defined.

涅槃诗封口，ending 93。