him as opposed to a material one. This heritage is given from a viewpoint of trust in the potential of the child Rāhula, presuming that the Buddhist path can also be accessed by children. The acceptance of Rāhula in the monastic order as a child set a precedent, which later developed into a widespread Buddhist tradition of educating children in monasteries. The numerous teachings given to Rāhula have left behind teaching material which could be used for teaching children of different ages, and were sophisticated for the time period with regard to their age-specific material. Theravāda tradition further built on this genre, with Pāli manuals of religious teaching for novices. Writing about the Buddha's teachings methods used for Rahula, psychologist Kishani Townshend argues "... Buddha's use of Socratic questioning, poetic devices and role modelling are still relevant to developing virtue in today's children." Notes References Citations Sources Further reading The Buddha and His Teaching, by Nārada Mahāthera, . A classic book about Buddhism from a Sri Lankan monk, with a section about the Buddha's encounters with Rāhula (pp. 94–102). External links Rāhula Sutta, the Pāli text in which the Buddha gives advice to Rāhula about meditation, translated by John Ireland, hosted on the website Access to Insight. Archived from the original on 1 July 2006. The poems attributed to Rāhula, as found in the Theragāthā, translated by Bhikkhu Sujato and Jessica Walton, hosted on Sutta Central. Talk about Rāhula, based on the Pāli tradition and a book of Ñānamoli Bhikkhu, speaker unknown, hosted by the London Buddhist Centre. Foremost disciples of Gautama Buddha Family of Gautama Buddha Year of death unknown 530s BC births Arhats Indian Buddhist monks Buddhist mythology 5th-century BC Indian monks Good articles 5th-century BC Buddhist monks Children by deity