The episode of Ananda's "offences":An attempt to understand the paradoxes of the Buddha's teachings

Abstract

The episode of Ånandaís ìoffencesî seems to be one of the most striking features of the whole post-Buddha history of Buddhism which, unfortunately, did not draw the attention of the scholars so far as it genuinely deserved. A careful investigation of the whole the episode is truly needed to understand the function of the First Buddhist Council as, though unfortunately, is left by the stalwarts of Buddhism like H. Oldenberg, L. De La Vallee Poussin, and R.C. Majumdar in their thorough investigation of the proceedings of the First Buddhist Council. Editor: Varsha Bhagat -Ganguly