Nandaka's Advice
An English translation of an important discourse and its commentary in which one of the Buddha’s senior disciples gives a teaching to five-hundred nuns, at the conclusion of which they all attain at least the level of Stream-Entry (Nandakovādasuttaṁ, MN 146 & AA 1.4.7)
An English translation of an important discourse and its commentary in which one of the Buddha’s senior disciples gives a teaching to five-hundred nuns, at the conclusion of which they all attain at least the level of Stream-Entry (Nandakovādasuttaṁ, MN 146 & AA 1.4.7)
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Table of Contents<br />
Introduction<br />
Nandaka’s <strong>Advice</strong><br />
Introduction<br />
The Instruction on the Internal Sense Spheres<br />
The Instruction on the External Sense Spheres<br />
The Instruction on the Six Consciousnesses<br />
The Oil Lamp Simile<br />
The Big Tree Simile<br />
The Cow Simile<br />
The Key to the Cow Simile<br />
The Factors of Awakening<br />
The Gracious One’s Response<br />
The Following Day<br />
The Instruction on the Internal Sense Spheres<br />
The Instruction on the External Sense Spheres<br />
The Instruction on the Six Consciousnesses<br />
The Oil Lamp Simile<br />
The Big Tree Simile<br />
The Cow Simile<br />
The Key to the Cow Simile<br />
The Factors of Awakening<br />
The Gracious One’s Response<br />
The Story about the Elder Nandaka<br />
His Aspiration and Good Deeds<br />
His Last Life<br />
His Past Life<br />
Teaching the Nuns