Early Buddhism

With the Householder Tapussa

Tapussasutta

Language
Pāli
Period
Early Buddhist Texts
Tradition
Early Buddhism
Versions
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The householder Tapussa reflects that it is renunciation that distinguishes lay from monastic. The Buddha responds by giving a long account of his practice of absorption before awakening.

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