SN 22.131Origin
Pāli / Sanskrit:Samudayasutta
Sāriputta explains to Mahākoṭṭhita that ignorance is not understanding the aggregates in terms of arising and ceasing, gratification, drawback, and escape.
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– Chapter 22: Connected Discourses on the Aggregates
– III: The Ignorance Chapter
22.131. Origin
Vi-n 1-2.Bārānasī , Isipatana , in the Deer Park …
Vi-n 3: “Ignorance, ignorance,” it is said, friend Sàriputa. And what is ignorance, friend? In what way is one called ignorant?
Vi-n 4—Here, friend, an unlearned ordinary person does not understand as it really is the origin, cessation, gratification, danger, and escape regarding form.
Vi-n 5-7.… feeling … perception … volitional formations …
Vi-n 8… does not understand as it really is the origin, cessation, gratification, danger, and escape regarding consciousness.
Vi-n 9This, friend, is called ignorance. In this way one is called ignorant.
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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