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The Buddhist concept of the good life consisted of observing discipline, namely, abstaining from stealing, from doing wrong which related to sensual desires, from lying, slandering, bitter speech and idle babbling. According to Buddhist philosophy, the concept of education was to train the student in religion, morality, wisdom and meditation and to equip him with intellectual and spiritual powers. It also incorporated certain ingredients such as regard for the subject of learning simple living and high thinking, love for manual work, self-help, community life, maintaining sincerity and discipline, humility, respect to elders and veneration to teacher. The aims of Buddhist education as they emerged were to tenable the pupils to realize the ultimate truth, that is nirvana or moksha, to make them aware about the realities of life, to enable them to eliminate ignorance and acquire knowledge and wisdom, to make them understand the law of karma, to make them sharpen their faculties of intellect, discrimination and decision-making, to help them develop good moral character, to cultivate a scientific attitude in learning and living, to develop their ability for logical reasoning, argumentation and dialectics, to inculcate universal ideals of love, compassion, brotherhood, friendship, welfare and peace.