Early Buddhism

Kuṇḍaliya

Kuṇḍaliyasutta

Language
Pāli
Period
Early Buddhist Texts
Tradition
Early Buddhism
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The wanderer Kuṇḍaliya points out that some ascetics argue for the sake of winning debates. But the Buddha says his path is for the sake of liberation. Kuṇḍaliya asks what leads to liberation, and the Buddha traces a sequence of conditions back to sense restraint.

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