of the Buddha were right and those of his master were wrong. So
he begged the Buddha to accept him as one of his lay disciples
(Vpasaka).
But the Buddha asked him to reconsider it, and not to
be in a hurry, for 'considering carefully is good for well-known
men like you'. When Upali expressed his desire again, the Buddha
requested him to continue to respect and support his old religious
teachers as he used to.
3
In the third century B.C., the great Buddhist Emperor Asoka
of India, following this noble example of tolerance and under-
standing, honoured and supported all other religions in his vast
empire. In one of his Edicts carved on rock, the original of which
one may read even today, the Emperor declared:
'One should not honour only one's o w n religion and condemn
the religions of others, but one should honour others' religions for
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