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Chapter Fifty-Five: Appearance of the Morning Star<br />

The Buddha cares for a bhikkhu who has dysentery. Bhikkhuni Dhammadinna delivers a discourse on Emptiness to lay disciples Visakha<br />

and Sudatta and is praised by the Buddha. The stories of Bhikkhunis Patacara and Uppalavanna are recounted.<br />

Vin. Mv. Kh. 8; AV. 123-124; Culavedalla Sutta (M. 44); Tchong 210 (T. 26); Sseu Fen Liu (T. 1428).<br />

Patacara’s poem can be found in the Therigatha. The lay disciple named Visakha who listened to Bhikkhuni Dhammadinna’s discourse<br />

was a male disciple and not Lady Visakha. Uppalavanna’s story is recounted in T. 1428. See also Thig.

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