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'Buddha as Mendicant', 1920. Buddha lived as a mendicant, knowing that poverty - a life of nonacquirement - was necessary to learn nonattachment and acceptance. From "Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists", by The Sister Nivedita and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. [George G. Harrap & Company Ltd, London, 1920] (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/The Print Collector)