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    The Sutta Nipāta (lit. 'Section of the Suttas') is a Buddhist scripture, a sutta collection in the Khuddaka Nikaya, part of the Sutta Pitaka of the Pali...
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    Khuddakapāṭha (Khp 5), and in the Sutta Nipāta (Sn 2.4). In the latter source, the discourse is called the Mahāmangala Sutta. It is also traditionally included...
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    than a rhinoceros horn. In the Sutta Pitaka, this Pali sutta is the third sutta in the Khuddaka Nikaya's Sutta Nipata's first chapter (Uragavagga, or the...
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  • and List of suttas Sutta Nipata, is a Buddhist scripture Sutta Piṭaka, The second of the three divisions of the Tripitaka or Pali Canon Sutta Pazham, is...
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  • are two small collections of suttas. They are incorporated in the Khuddhaka Nikāya as subdivisions of the Sutta Nipāta, the collection of the words spoken...
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    The Dhammika Sutta is part of the Sutta Nipata(Sn 2.14). In this sutta, the Buddha instructs a lay disciple named Dhammika on rules for monks and on the...
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    The Ratana Sutta (Burmese: ရတနာသုတ်) (Sinhala: රතන සූත්‍රය) is a Buddhist discourse (Pali: sutta) found in the Pali Canon's Sutta Nipata (Snp 2.1) and...
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    The Uraga Sutta ("The Snake") is a Buddhist discourse, or sutta, that opens the Pali Canon's Sutta Nipata. It gives its name to the first chapter, the...
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  • Exclamations List of suttas List of Digha Nikaya suttas List of Majjhima Nikaya suttas List of Samyutta Nikaya suttas List of Anguttara Nikaya suttas List of Khuddaka...
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    attaining Buddhahood. According to post-canonical Sutta Nipāta commentary, the background story for the Mettā Sutta is that a group of monks were frightened by...
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    Muni gatha: Muni Sutta, Sutta Nipata 207–21. Upatisa pasine: Sariputta Sutta, Sutta Nipata 955–75. Laghulavade: Rahulavada Sutta, Majjhima Nikaya, I:421...
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    with contact and feeling, desire fades away. The Kalahavivāda Sutta of the Sutta Nipāta (Sn. 862-872) has the following chain of causes (as summarized...
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  • exists) for the specific location.[circular reference] Mentioned in "Suciloma Sutta" in the Sutta Nipata Mentioned in "Alavaka Sutta" in the Sutta Nipata...
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  • kappa, and is mentioned in the assumed oldest scripture of Buddhism, the Sutta Nipata. This speaks of "Kappâtita: one who has gone beyond time, an Arahant"...
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    of Pratishthana, on the route connecting the two cities (according to Sutta Nipata). Patanjali mentions that a traveler starting out from Ujjayini saw the...
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    around Paithan known in ancient times as Pratishthana. According to Sutta Nipata Saketa or Ayodhya was first halting place on the southward road (Dakshinapatha)...
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    moral causality, karma (Pali: kamma), is central in Buddhism. In the Sutta Nipata, the Buddha is recorded as having said the following about selling luck:...
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  • formula. The Atthakavagga, one of the oldest books of the Sutta Pitaka, contained in the Sutta Nipata, does not give a clear-cut goal such as Nirvana, but...
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    divided into two strata, one being early and the other late. The texts Sutta Nipata, Itivuttaka, Dhammapada, Therigatha (Theragatha), Udana and Jataka belong...
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    Throughout the Sutta Pitaka the Buddha often compares sexual pleasure to arrows or darts. So in the Kama Sutta (4.1) from the Sutta Nipata the Buddha explains...
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    Mitrayu, Shamshapyana, Akritaverna and Savarni The early Buddhist text (Sutta Nipata 3.7 describes the meeting between the Buddha and Sela. It has been translated...
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    previously known as Rupandehi, 2 mi (3.2 km) north of Bhagavanpura. The Sutta Nipáta (vs. 683) states that the Buddha was born in a village of the Sákyans...
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  • Discourses, Vol. 1 (Sutta Nipata translation) [600+ pages unpublished manuscript] 1989f – The Chapter of the Snake (Sutta Nipata, Uraga Vagga translation)...
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  • way of conduct towards living beings (sattesu samma patipatti). The Sutta Nipata says "'As I am, so are these. As are these, so am I.' Drawing the parallel...
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    found these people happily prospered. — Buddha, Brahmanadhammika Sutta 13.24, Sutta Nipāta Saving animals from slaughter for meat, is believed in Buddhism...
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    Brahmin occupations mentioned in the Buddhist texts such as Jatakas and Sutta Nipata are very lowly. The Dharmasutras too mention Brahmin farmers. According...
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    for those who sacrifice seeking merit, the Saṅgha is the foremost. In Sutta Nipata 3.4, the Buddha uses the Sāvitri mantra as a paradigmatic indicator of...
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    religions. Uttaradhyayana Sutra says he was a follower of Mahavira, whereas Sutta Nipata depicts him and his wife, Khema, as followers of Buddha. The latter further...
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  • Nikaya, the "minor collection" (including Dhammapada, Udāna, Itivuttaka, Sutta Nipāta, Theragatha and Therīgāthā) Abhidhamma Pitaka Dhammasaṅganī (-saṅgaṇi...
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    he produced his ultimate work of scholarship: a translation of the Sutta Nipāta, published in 1932, then considered remarkable for its style and literary...
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