Brahmajalasutta 1.1

Brahmajala Sutta (Dialogues of the Buddha) 1.1

Language: English

1.1

Thus have I heard. The Blessed One was once going along the high road between Rājagaha and Nālandā with a great company of the brethren, with about five hundred brethren. And Suppiya the mendicant too was going along the high road between Rājagaha and Nālandā with his disciple the youth Brahmadatta. Now just then Suppiya the mendicant was speaking in many ways in dispraise of the Buddha, in dispraise of the Doctrine, in dispraise of the Order. But young Brahmadatta, his pupil, gave utterance, in many ways, to praise of the Buddha, to praise of the Doctrine, to praise of the Order. Thus. they two, teacher and pupil, holding opinions in direct contradiction one to the other, were following, step by step, after the Blessed One and the company of the brethren.

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Nālandā, afterwards the seat of the famous Buddhist university, was about seven miles north of Rājagaha, the capital of Magadha, the modern Raj-gir (Sum. p. 35).

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Suppiya was a follower of the celebrated teacher Sañjaya, whose views are set out and controverted in the next Sutta.

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Brahmajālasutta — Pāli