• The Samaññaphala Sutta ("The Fruit of Contemplative Life") is the second discourse (Pali, sutta; Skt., sutra) of the Digha Nikaya. In terms of narrative...
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    discusses ethics and practices for lay followers, and the Samaññaphala Sutta (DN 2) and Brahmajāla Sutta (DN 1) which describe and compare the point of view...
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    refraining from wrong" terminology, a few texts such as the Samaññaphala Sutta and Kevata Sutta in Digha Nikaya explain this virtue in an active sense, after...
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  • Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta (Majjhima Nikaya 10: The Discourse on the Establishing of Mindfulness), and the subsequently created Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta (Dīgha Nikāya...
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    his second campaign against the Vajjika League in 481–480 BC. The Samaññaphala Sutta states that Ajatashatru visited the six teachers to hear their doctrines...
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    Brahmanic and Sramanic traditions intermingled. The Buddhist text of the Samaññaphala Sutta identifies six pre-Buddhist śrāmana schools, identifying them by their...
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  • Everyone." Pāli Canon Sutta Piṭaka Anguttara Nikāya Majjhima Nikāya Samyutta Nikaya Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta Samaññaphala Sutta Four Noble Truths Noble...
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    translation of Mahāsīhanāda-sutta. According to various early texts like the Mahāsaccaka-sutta, and the Samaññaphala Sutta, a Buddha has achieved three...
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    anekantavada doctrine is also summarized in Buddhist texts such as the Samaññaphala Sutta (in which he is called Nigantha Nātaputta), and is a key difference...
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    In various suttas which present the graduated path taught by the Buddha, such as the Samaññaphala Sutta and the Cula-Hatthipadopama Sutta, the first step...
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    discourses, most famously the "Fruits of Contemplative Life Discourse" (Samaññaphala Sutta, DN 2). The attainment of the four jhanas is considered to be a prerequisite...
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    and their views on Indian philosophy are described in detail in the Samaññaphala Sutta of the Digha Nikaya in the Pali Tipitaka. According to the sutra,...
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  • org/tipitaka/mn/mn.002.than.html. Thanissaro Bhikkhu (trans.) (1997). Samaññaphala Sutta: The Fruits of the Contemplative Life (DN 2). Available on-line at...
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    Origin of Buddhist Meditation; and Polak (2011), Reexaming Jhana. Samaññaphala Sutta: "With the abandoning of pleasure and pain — as with the earlier disappearance...
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    and Buddhist texts such as the Samaññaphala Sutta and Sandaka Sutta, and Buddhaghosa's commentary on Sammannaphala Sutta, with a few mentions in Hindu...
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  • recorded in Theravada Buddhism's Pāli Canon in the Brahmajala Sutta and Samaññaphala Sutta and in the Sūyagaḍaṃga of Jainism. Along with these texts, the...
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    phenomenal change. This is quite clear in our locus classicus, the Samaññaphala Sutta. Sin and suffering, attributed by other sects to the laws of karma...
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  • view Sutta Pitaka Digha Nikaya, the "long" discourses (including Brahmajāla Sutta, Samaññaphala Sutta, Sigālovāda Sutta and Mahāparinibbāṇa Sutta) Majjhima...
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  • Publications. ISBN 0-86171-072-X. Thanissaro Bhikkhu (trans.) (1997). Samaññaphala Sutta: The Fruits of the Contemplative Life (DN 2). Available on-line at...
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    as the Samaññaphala Sutta (DN 2), Kevatta Sutta (DN 11), Lohicca Sutta (DN 12) and Mahasakuludayi Sutta (MN 77). In the Iddhipada-vibhanga Sutta, the Buddha...
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  • taught the Middle Way instead. Many suttas of Buddhism got stated about the Nigantha Nataputta. The Samaññaphala Sutta (D i.47), for example, states: Nigantha...
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    Retrieved 2017-01-28. "Iddhipada-vibhanga Sutta: Analysis of the Bases of Power". Access to Insight. "Samaññaphala Sutta: The Fruits of the Contemplative Life"...
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  • phenomenal change. This is quite clear in our locus classicus, the Samaññaphala Sutta. Sin and suffering, attributed by other sects to the laws of karma...
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    Publications. ISBN 0-86171-072-X. Thanissaro Bhikkhu (trans.) (1997). Samaññaphala Sutta: The Fruits of the Contemplative Life (DN 2). Available on-line at...
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  • (trans.) (1997). Samaññaphala Sutta: The Fruits of the Contemplative Life (DN 2). Retrieved from "Access to Insight" at Samaññaphala Sutta: The Fruits of...
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  • uchicago.edu/dictionaries/pali/. Thanissaro Bhikkhu (trans.) (1997). Samaññaphala Sutta: The Fruits of the Contemplative Life (DN 2). On-line http://www.accesstoinsight...
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  • Publications, Boston, 2001) ISBN 0-86171-072-X. Thanissaro Bhikkhu (trans.) Samaññaphala Sutta: The Fruits of the Contemplative Life (DN 2) (1997) Available on-line...
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  • "annihilationist" view in the Brahmajala Sutta (DN 1, Chinese parallel at DA 21, a Tibetan parallel also exists).: 28  The Samaññaphala Sutta (parallel at DA 27) also...
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  • subsequent paragraphs. The Buddha gives the following analogies in the Samaññaphala Sutta (DN 2, "The Fruits of the Contemplative Life"): [W]hen these five...
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  • that God exists nor the belief that God does not exist is rational. "Samaññaphala Sutta: The Fruits of the Contemplative Life". Digha Nikaya. Translated by...
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