Lives of Alcyone

however good , could make wrong right or justify slaughter and
oppression; that the teaching of the Buddha was clear, that men
should live together in peace and in love, and that it mattered little
who bore the burden of ruling the country, so long as its inhabitants
lived according to the precepts of the Good Law. So he died at last
in the odour of sanctity in the year 694, and though in the line of his
successors there were few men who were not more worldly than he,
the prestige which he and his teacher had given to the monastery
clung round it like a halo for some centuries to come, and even the
barbarous invaders from the north usually respected the lives of its
monks, though sometimes they robbed it of its treasures.
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