Early Buddhism

Advice to Rāhula

Rāhulovādasutta

Language
Pāli
Period
Early Buddhist Texts
Tradition
Early Buddhism
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Realizing that his son Rāhula was ripe for awakening, the Buddha takes him for a personal teaching. He questions Rāhula on the impermanence of all the factors of sense experience, leading Rāhula to realize full freedom.

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