AN 10.229–232Untitled Discourses on Ten to Forty Qualities (2nd)
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– Aṅguttara Nikāya
– XXII. Untitled
10.229-232. After Death (1)
—“Bhikkhus, there is a person endowed with ten qualities who, with the breakup of the body after death, is reborn in a place of loss, a bad destination, the lower world, hell … There is a person who, with the breakup of the body after death, is reborn in a good destination, in a heavenly world … Bhikkhus, with twenty qualities … with thirty qualities … Bhikkhus, with forty qualities, there is a person who, with the breakup of the body after death, is reborn in a place of loss, a bad destination, the lower world, hell … There is a person who, with the breakup of the body after death, is reborn in a good destination, in a heavenly world …”
This collection was translated by Venerable Thích Minh Châu from the Pali Canon into Vietnamese in 1976–1977 and published by the Vạn Hạnh Buddhist Institute, Saigon, in 1980–1981. As part of the translation and publication of the Vietnamese Buddhist Canon, the collection was revised into 4 volumes and republished in 1996 as volumes 21, 22, 23, and 24.
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The “…” is an abbreviation carried over from the Pāli original itself, called peyyāla. The early canon was memorized and recited, so passages repeated verbatim from a preceding discourse were commonly contracted to an elision mark rather than written out in full. Venerable Thích Minh Châu's translation preserves this convention. Some texts therefore look short — but that is the canonical form, not missing content or a truncated translation. The elided passages can be read in full in the preceding discourses of the same chapter.
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