Early Buddhism

A Hawk

Sakuṇagghisutta

Language
Pāli
Period
Early Buddhist Texts
Tradition
Early Buddhism
Versions
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The parable of the quail and the hawk. When the quail ventured outside her ancestral territory, she became vulnerable. And what is a mendicant’s ancestral territory? The four kinds of mindfulness meditation.

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