SN 48.2A Stream-Enterer (1st)
Pāli / Sanskrit:Paṭhamasotāpannasutta
One who understands the gratification, the drawback, and the escape regarding the five faculties is a stream-enterer.
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– Chapter 48: Linked Discourses on the Faculties
– I: The Purification Chapter
48.2. Stream-Enterer (1)
Vi-n 1-2.…
Vi-n 3—Mendicants, there are these five faculties. What five? The faculties of faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom.
Vi-n 4When a noble disciple, mendicants, truly understands the origin, cessation, gratification, danger, and escape regarding these five faculties, then that noble disciple is called a stream-enterer, no longer subject to decline, certain to attain awakening.
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 program to translate and publish the Vietnamese Buddhist Canon, the collection was republished in 1993 as volumes 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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