Those of You Who Remember the Wise Words of the Blessed One

According to the scriptures of various buddha schools that survived, yes, absolutely. The senior monks did indeed refuse to let ananda in and accused him of various shortcomings. We think of buddhism as this perfectly peaceful andzen religion where every teacher was a happy, laughing buddha. But the exact opposite is true. Literally within ours of the buddha death, as we saw in the last episode of echoes, they were immediately at each other's throats. They weren't all doing it out of piety, though. It was competition prestige. Do you remember shavat, capital of cosala, which we saw an episode four? Well, kosala was one