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The Discourse about the Great Emancipation

An English translation of one of the longest discourses in the canon, detailing the last year of the Buddha’s life, and his final teachings (Mahāparinibbānasuttaṁ, DN 16)

An English translation of one of the longest discourses in the canon, detailing the last year of the Buddha’s life, and his final teachings (Mahāparinibbānasuttaṁ, DN 16)

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<strong>The</strong> Second Chapter for Recitation<br />

<strong>The</strong> Gracious One accepted <strong>the</strong> pleasure park. <strong>The</strong>n <strong>the</strong> Gracious One,<br />

after instructing, rousing, enthusing, and cheering <strong>the</strong> courtesan<br />

Ambapālī with a talk <strong>about</strong> <strong>the</strong> Teaching, having risen from <strong>the</strong> seat,<br />

went away. 70 * * *<br />

<strong>The</strong>re also <strong>the</strong> Gracious One, while living in Vesālī in Ambapālī's<br />

Wood, spoke frequently to <strong>the</strong> monks <strong>about</strong> <strong>the</strong> Teaching, (saying):<br />

“Such is virtue, such is concentration, such is wisdom, when virtue is<br />

well-developed it yields great fruit and brings great advantages in<br />

regard to concentration, when concentration is well-developed it yields<br />

great fruit and brings great advantages in regard to wisdom, when<br />

wisdom is well-developed <strong>the</strong> mind is completely liberated from <strong>the</strong><br />

pollutants, that is to say: <strong>the</strong> pollutant of sensuality, <strong>the</strong> pollutant of<br />

(craving for) continued existence, <strong>the</strong> pollutant of ignorance.”<br />

70 Unfortunately <strong>the</strong> Commentary gives us no idea what <strong>the</strong> Buddha taught to<br />

Ambapāli on this occasion.<br />

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