Self-tamers

“These sectarians who called themselves the SELF-TAMERS arose owing to that distorted understanding of the Buddhist religion which, as I have already told you, they called ‘suffering-in-solitude’. BTG XXII

“From this time on, these sectarians, formerly called the SELF-TAMERS, now began to be called by various names those of the SELF-TAMERS who remained faithful to the obligations they had taken upon themselves were called ‘Orthodoxhydooraki’, while the rest, who had renounced the several obligations they had undertaken in their native country, were called “Katoshkihydooraki”. BTG XXII

“In the course of the evening talk, it transpired that all the beings of this settlement belonged to the sect then famous in Pearl-land under the name ‘The SELF-TAMERS’, which had been formed from among the followers of just that religion which, as I have already told you, purported to be based on the direct instructions of Saint Buddha. BTG XXII