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Anattalakkhana Sutta (Discourse on the Characteristic of Not-Self) — Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha

Traditional attribution

Anattalakkhana Sutta (Discourse on the Characteristic of Not-Self)

Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta

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bySiddhartha Gautama, the Buddha

According to tradition, the Buddha's second teaching, given at Isipatana to the five ascetics who had just heard the first sermon. It examines form, feeling, perception, formations and consciousness and concludes that none is a self, since all are impermanent and cause suffering; on hearing it, the texts say, the five attained liberation.

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Authorship note

A discourse of the Pali canon (SN 22.59; también en el Mahavagga del Vinaya) attributed to the Buddha; transmitted orally and written down around the first century BCE, with parallels in the Chinese Agamas.

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Sources

  • Bodhi, Bhikkhu (trad.). The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Saṃyutta Nikāya. Wisdom Publications, Boston, 2000 (SN 56.11 Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta). ISBN 9780861713318.

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