AN 5.188Those Who Eat in One Sitting
Pāli / Sanskrit:Ekāsanikasutta
Different reasons why someone might eat once per day.
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– Aṅguttara Nikāya
– XIX . The Wilderness Chapter
5.188. Different Kinds of People
TTC 1—Bhikkhus, there are these five kinds of people who wear robes made from cloth picked up from rubbish heaps…
TTC 2Bhikkhus, there are these five kinds of people who live at the foot of a tree…
TTC 3Bhikkhus, there are these five kinds of people who live in charnel grounds…
TTC 4Bhikkhus, there are these five kinds of people who live in the open air…
TTC 5Bhikkhus, there are these five kinds of people who sit and do not lie down…
TTC 6Bhikkhus, there are these five kinds of people who sleep wherever they are invited…
TTC 7Bhikkhus, there are these five kinds of people who eat only one meal while seated…
TTC 8Bhikkhus, there are these five kinds of people who observe the practice of not eating again after finishing their meal…
This collection was translated by Venerable Thích Minh Châu from the Pali Canon into Vietnamese in 1976–1977, and published by Vạn Hạnh Buddhist Institute, Sài Gòn, in 1980–1981 . As part of the translation and publication program for the Vietnamese Buddhist Canon, the collection was revised into 4 volumes and reissued in 1996 as numbers 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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