傳統詮釋this account has been interpreted as contrasting the proper behavior of the Buddhist sangha and laity toward the Buddha’s remains.The sangha, with their greater knowledge and sophistication, should abstain from venerating the Buddha’s relics, but instead should focus on their own personal achievement of nirvana through religious instruction and meditation.The laity, with their lesser understanding of Buddhism, could obtain merit through ritual directed toward the Buddha’s relics interred within stupas.作者:It is clear that by at least the second century BCE this traditional understanding of the sangha is wrong. As will be discussed below, in the second century BCE through the second century CE, archaeological and epigraphic evidence unequivocally shows that both the sangha and the laity were heavily invested in veneration of stupas. p.11114