ABSTRACT
Characteristically different is the perpetuation of compassionate memories in the adopted Buddhism of the Far East. Buddhaghosa rightly remarks of anuddaya, kindness or compassion, that it "means warding". The parent, the teacher, the wife, the master, the friend, the brahman or recluse should feel compassion for child, husband, friend, servant, layman respectively. These compassionates as superseding, in the teacher's homily, the sixfold sort of naturedeity worship in which the householder was occupied, are thus made to rank as so many little devas of a cult prescribed in Sakya. The warding of man as exercise of compassion cannot but include all fellow-feeling, whether the prevailing tinge of it be pity, or kindliness, or protection, or sympathy with joy. Joy over the results of the good teacher's compassion, joy as will have been radiated to him by that happy teacher breaks out in lovely relief in the tamed disciple who had been notorious in evil-doing, Angulimala.
