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Dhammapada 266

Dhammapada 266

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Pāli

266

Na tena bhikkhu so hoti,
yāvatā bhikkhate pare;
Vissaṃ dhammaṃ samādāya,
bhikkhu hoti na tāvatā.

A man is not a mendicant (Bhikshu) simply because he asks others for alms; he who adopts the whole law is a Bhikshu, not he who only begs.

Friedrich Max Müller 1881, The Dhammapada (Sacred Books of the East 10.1)

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