KAĻĀRAKHATTIYAVAGGA

Collections of Linked Discourses

Collections of 'linked' or 'connected' discourses and other related texts.

Bhūtasutta

SN 12.31

What Has Come to Be

The Buddha asks Sāriputta to explain a verse from “The Questions of Ajita” in the Parāyana (Snp 5.2). At first, Sāriputta hesitates, but proceeds when the Buddha indicates he is looking for an answer in terms of conditionality.

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Kaḷārasutta

SN 12.32

With Kaḷāra the Aristocrat

A mendicant named Kaḷāra the Khattiya informs Sāriputta that the mendicant Moḷiyaphagguna had disrobed. Overinterpreting Sāriputta’s reply, Kaḷāra reports to the Buddha that Sāriputta had claimed to have ended all defilements...

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Ñāṇavatthusutta

SN 12.33

Grounds for Knowledge

An analysis of 44 contexts for developing insight with regard to dependent origination. This includes an important distinction between knowledge arising from direct vision of the present, and that derived from inference as to the...

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Dutiyañāṇavatthusutta

SN 12.34

Grounds for Knowledge (2nd)

An analysis of 77 contexts for developing insight with regard to dependent origination.

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Avijjāpaccayasutta

SN 12.35

Ignorance is a Condition

A mendicant asks who possesses old age and death, and the other factors. The Buddha says the question is improper, as it assumes a self as agent. Rather, dependent origination is the teaching “by the middle”, explaining phenomena...

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Dutiyaavijjāpaccayasutta

SN 12.36

Ignorance is a Condition (2nd)

The content of this discourse is identical with SN 12.35, except presented as a general teaching by the Buddha, without an questioner.

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Natumhasutta

SN 12.37

Not Yours

The body is not yours, but is old kamma, generated by choices in past lives.

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Cetanāsutta

SN 12.38

Intention

Intentions or choices are the force that propels consciousness from one life to the next.

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Dutiyacetanāsutta

SN 12.39

Intention (2nd)

Intentions or choices are the force that propels consciousness from one life to the next.

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Tatiyacetanāsutta

SN 12.40

Intention (3rd)

Intentions or choices are the force that propels consciousness from one life to the next.

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