The original call of the Buddha was: ‘Come, live the holy life in order that you make an end of suffering.’ Some who heard this renounced home and family to become celibate monks and nuns (Pali, bhikkhus, bhikkhunis; Sanskrit, bhiksu, bhiksuni). Others remained within their family as lay followers. A clear division emerged between the two, summed up in the verse from the Pali Canon about the peacock and the swan: The blue-necked peacock which flies through the air never