SN 17.32Skillful Root
Pāli / Sanskrit:Kusalamūlasutta
Devadatta’s wholesome root was cut off due to material possessions, honor, and praise.
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– Chapter 17: Connected Discourses on Gains and Honor
– IV: The Fourth Chapter
17.32. Root
Vi-n 1… At Sāvatthi .
Vi-n 2—Bhikkhus, gains, honor, and fame are a painful affliction …
Vi-n 3Overcome by gains, honor, and fame, his mind obsessed by them, bhikkhus, Devadatta’s wholesome root was cut off.
Vi-n 4Thus, bhikkhus, gains, honor, and fame are a painful affliction …
Vi-n 5This is how you should train, bhikkhus.
This collection was translated into Vietnamese by Venerable Thích Minh Châu and published by Vạn Hạnh Monastery in the early 1980s . Later, as part of the translation and publication program for the Vietnamese Buddhist Canon, the collection was reprinted in 1993 and assigned sequence numbers 12 through 16.
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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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