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Akankheyya Sutta. If a Bhikkhu Should Wish. According to the Buddha, careful observance of ethical precepts is the foundation of all higher achievements in the spiritual life. MN 7. Vatthupama Sutta. The Simile of the Cloth. The many different kinds of impurities that defile the mind are compared to a dirty cloth.
Buddhism. The Amarapura Nikaya ( Sinhala: අමරපුර මහ නිකාය) was a Sri Lankan monastic fraternity ( gaṇa or nikāya) founded in 1800. It is named after the city of Amarapura, Burma, the capital of the Konbaung dynasty of Burma at that time. Amarapura Nikaya monks are Theravada Buddhists.
Maha Dwara Nikaya ( Burmese: မဟာဒွာရနိကာယ, IPA: [məhà dwàɹa̰ nḭkàja̰] ); also spelt Maha Dwaya Nikaya or Mahādvāra Nikāya, is a small monastic order of monks in Myanmar (Burma), primarily in Lower Myanmar. [1] This order is very conservative with respect to Vinaya regulations. [2] It is one of 9 legally ...
t. e. The Saṃyutta Nikāya ("Connected Discourses" or "Kindred Sayings") is a Buddhist scriptures collection, the third of the five Nikāyas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that compose the Pali Tipitaka of Theravada Buddhism. Because of the abbreviated way parts of the text are written, the total ...
Completed. 1302 [2] Asgiri Maha Viharaya (also called Asgiriya temple, Asgiriya Gedige) is a Buddhist monastery located in Kandy, Sri Lanka. It is the headquarters of the Asgiriya chapter of Siyam Nikaya, [3] one of the two Buddhist monasteries that holds the custodianship of sacred tooth relic of Buddha kept in Sri Dalada Maligawa, Kandy.
Nikāya ( निकाय) is a Pāli word meaning "volume". It is often used like the Sanskrit word āgama ( आगम) to mean "collection", "assemblage", "class" or "group" in both Pāḷi and Sanskrit. [1] It is most commonly used in reference to the Pali Buddhist texts of the Tripitaka namely those found in the Sutta Piṭaka.
The Maha Nikaya is the largest order of Theravada Buddhist monks in Thailand . The identification of the Maha Nikaya as a single, discrete, entity is an innovation of the Thai state. After the founding of the Dhammayuttika Nikaya by the then-monk Prince Mongkut in 1833, decades later all recognized monks not ordained in the Dhammayuttika order ...
