Mahanidanasutta 1.1-8
Mahānidānasutta 1.1-8
- Language
- Pāli
1.1
Evaṃ me sutaṃ—
So I have heard.
1.2
ekaṃ samayaṃ bhagavā kurūsu viharati kammāsadhammaṃ nāma kurūnaṃ nigamo.
At one time the Buddha was staying in the land of the Kurus, near the Kuru town named Kammāsadamma.
1.3
Atha kho āyasmā ānando yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami, upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṃ abhivādetvā ekamantaṃ nisīdi. Ekamantaṃ nisinno kho āyasmā ānando bhagavantaṃ etadavoca:
Then Venerable Ānanda went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him,
1.4
“acchariyaṃ, bhante, abbhutaṃ, bhante.
“It’s incredible, sir, it’s amazing,
1.5
Yāva gambhīro cāyaṃ, bhante, paṭiccasamuppādo gambhīrāvabhāso ca, atha ca pana me uttānakuttānako viya khāyatī”ti.
in that this dependent origination is deep and appears deep, yet to me it seems as plain as can be.”
1.6
“Mā hevaṃ, ānanda, avaca, mā hevaṃ, ānanda, avaca.
“Don’t say that, Ānanda, don’t say that!
1.7
Gambhīro cāyaṃ, ānanda, paṭiccasamuppādo gambhīrāvabhāso ca.
This dependent origination is deep and appears deep.
1.8
Etassa, ānanda, dhammassa ananubodhā appaṭivedhā evamayaṃ pajā tantākulakajātā kulagaṇṭhikajātā muñjapabbajabhūtā apāyaṃ duggatiṃ vinipātaṃ saṃsāraṃ nātivattati.
It is because of not understanding and not penetrating this teaching that this population has become tangled like string, knotted like a ball of thread, and matted like rushes and reeds, and it doesn’t escape the places of loss, the bad places, the underworld, transmigration.
Translations (4)
- Большое наставление об обусловленности — Russian
- Dugi govor o uzročnosti — sr
- The Great Discourse on Causation — English
- Die große Lehrrede über das Kausalprinzip — German
Commentaries (1)
- Sumaṅgalavilāsinī — Buddhaghosa, Pāli
Linked texts (5)
- Nidānasutta — Pāli
- 中阿含經 — Classical Chinese
- 長阿含經 — Classical Chinese
- 人本欲生經 — Classical Chinese
- 大生義經 — Classical Chinese