AN 5.254Five Kinds of Stinginess
Pāli / Sanskrit:Pañcamacchariyasutta
Material and spiritual stinginess.
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– Aṅguttara Nikāya
– XXVI . The Higher Ordination Chapter
5.254. Stinginess
TTC 1—Bhikkhus, there are these five kinds of stinginess. What five?
TTC 2Stinginess regarding lodgings, stinginess regarding families, stinginess regarding gains, stinginess regarding praise, and stinginess regarding the Dhamma.
Bhikkhus, these are the five kinds of stinginess. Of these five kinds of stinginess, bhikkhus, the lowest is stinginess regarding the Dhamma.
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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