[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Dictionary of Pali Proper Names](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937) › v2.c32.112 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c32.112 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c32.112 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c32.112](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c32.112) Yamaka Sutta.—The Thera Yamaka held the view that, in so far as a monk has destroyed the āsavas, he is broken up and perishes at the break-up of the body and becomes not after death. Yamaka’s colleagues tried to correct this erroneous view¹ but failed, and so reported him to Sāriputta. Sāriputta visited Yamaka and argued with him that if it were false to say of anybody that he existed in truth, in reality, even in this very life, how much more so to speak of someone existing or not existing after death. Yamaka thereupon confessed his error. Sāriputta further elucidated the matter by using the simile of a man who enters the service of a rich householder with the intent to murder him. Such a man would always be a murderer, even though his master knew him not to be so. Even so, the disciple who regards body, etc., as permanent and so on, harbours a murderous view, even though he knows it not as such.² The sutta is often referred to.³ It is sometimes⁴ called the Yamakovāda Sutta. - [Previous: v2.c32.111](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c32.111) - [Next: v2.c32.113](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c32.113) - [Up: v2.c32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c32) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c32.112](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c32.112) · Pramāṇa