Crossword-Solution: MONKHOOD 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

From the sandy desert westwards on to India, the beauty of the dignified demeanour of the monkhood and of the transforming influence of the Law was beyond the power of language fully to describe; and reflecting how our masters had not heard any complete account of them, he therefore (went on) without regarding his own poor life, or (the dangers to be encountered) on the sea upon his return, thus incurring hardships and difficulties in a double form.

Its final disappearance was due to the destruction of its remaining monasteries by Moslem invaders but this blow was fatal only because Buddhism was concentrated in its monkhood.

Not now, as of old, Blooms the gay Marigold, Looking in at the kitchen door; And the Cypress red Is long since dead, And the Monkhood blossoms no more.

That it would have been a much stronger government had it been able to enlist on its side all the power of the monkhood, none can doubt.

CHAPTER X THE MONKHOOD--I 'Let his life be kindness, his conduct righteousness; then in the fulness of gladness he will make an end of grief.'--_Dammapada._ During his lifetime, that long lifetime that remained to him after he had found the light, Gaudama the Buddha gathered round him many disciples.