| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Further, if the purpose of the genre is not to set down the Buddha's philosophy (nor rules of monastic conduct, nor rules of laypeople's ethics) we should not look to it expecting this function: it is the right place to seek the answers to certain types of questions (such as what normal society looked like in the era of the text's authorship) and it is the wrong place to look for others.
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