SN 35.56Giving Up Defilements
Pāli / Sanskrit:Āsavapahānasutta
A mendicant asks the Buddha how to see so as to give up the defilements. The Buddha says one should see the six interior and exterior sense fields as impermanent.
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– Chapter 35: Linked Discourses on the Six Sense Fields
– I: The Chapter on Ignorance
35.56–57. Defilements (1-2)
(As in the two preceding discourses, substituting “defilements”.)
This collection was translated into Vietnamese by Venerable Thích Minh Châu and published by Vạn Hạnh Monastery in the early 1980s. It was later republished in 1993 as part of the translation and publication program for the Vietnamese Buddhist Canon, where it was numbered from 12 to 16.
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