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English 2015-08-25 2000 Profiling the Sangha. Institutional and Non-Institutional Tendencies in Early Buddhist Teachings 1 https://doi.org/10.17192/mjr.2000.5.1 2000 Vol 5 No 1 (2000) https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0004/cover.png Institute for Comparative Cultural Research - Study of Religions and Anthropology Religion Philosophy and theory of religion 1996 1418722-x Periodical urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-00048 Marburg Journal of Religion 1612-2941 Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften und Philosophie Deutschhausstraße 9, 35037 Marburg Marburg Philipps-Universität Marburg 2000-08-24 5 PeriodicalPart urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0004-2000-1252 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0004/2000/125/cover.png Oliver Freiberger Freiberger, Oliver https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0004/2000/125/3756/3756.png article https://doi.org/10.17192/mjr.2000.5.3756 Universitätsbibliothek Marburg Publikationsserver der Universitätsbibliothek Marburg 2015-08-25 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0004-2000-125-37567 2015-08-25 application/pdf Students of Buddhism use to discover early on in their studies that it is misleading to speak of a 'church' in early Buddhism. Christian ecclesiastical phenomena like priests, Sunday services, sermons, parishes and communal prayers, let alone a centrally organized institution like the Roman catholic church, did not exist in what we know of early Buddhism. Instead of a church, one is tempted to say, early Buddhism possessed the sangha, the monastic community. Basic religious functions the church fulfils in Christianity seem to be fulfilled by the sangha: as a member of this group, one follows the ideal path to salvation, and it is the task of the community to preserve and hand over the teaching of the Buddha (the dhamma) to following generations. It seems obvious that the sangha constitutes the central, if not the only religious institution of early Buddhism.

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