The Power of Custom

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The lay people offer food directly into the bowls of the monks and nuns.

That the Buddhist religion has survived so long in the world is a result not so much of the durability of manuscripts as of the power of ideas embodied in custom; and custom, for all our abundant sources of information, is what we lack and cannot in the long run do without.

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