Suttas Given To Lay People

393 Suttas ****

from John Kelly's Master's Dissertation, Appendix 1:
The Buddha’s Teachings to Lay People
used by permission

DN 2 [DN I 47-86] Samaññaphala (Fruits of the Homeless Life): to King Ajatasattu of Magadha – the fruits, visible here and now (in this life) of the life of renunciation, plus the higher benefits and true liberation.
DN 3 [DN I 87-110] Ambattha (To Ambattha: Pride Humbled): to the brahmin Ambattha, a pupil of Pokharasati – the 'thirty-two marks of a great man', humbling of arrogance.
DN 4 [DN I 111-126] Sonadanda (To Sonadanda: Qualities of a True brahmin): to the brahmin Sonadanda – the qualities of a true brahmin: wisdom and morality.
DN 5 [DN I 127-149] Kutadanta (To Kutadanta: A Bloodless Sacrifice): to the brahmin Kutadanta – sacrifices more profitable than the slaughter of animals.
DN 6 [DN I 150-158] Mahali (To Mahali: Heavenly Sights, Soul and Body): to Otthaddha Mahali, the Licchavi ruler – one-sided samadhi and useless questions.
DN 9 [DN I 178-203] Potthapada (To Potthapada: States of Consciousness): to the wanderer Potthapada, and later to Citta the elephant trainer's son – on states of consciousness and unanswerable questions; parable of the most beautiful girl in the country.
DN 10 [DN I 204-210] Subha (To Subha: Morality, Concentration, Wisdom): Ven. Ananda to the brahmin youth Subha – the noble path, morality, concentration, wisdom.
DN 11 [DN I 211-223] Kevaddha [Kevatta] (To Kevaddha: What Brahma Didn't Know): to the brahmin Kevaddha [Kevatta] – what Brahma didn't know: where the four great elements cease without remainder.
DN 12 [DN I 224-234] Lohicca (To Lohicca: Good and Bad Teachers): to the brahmin Lohicca – the difference between good and bad teachers.
DN 13 [DN I 235-253] Tevijja (The Threefold Knowledge: The Way to Brahma): to the brahmin youths Vasettha and Bharadvaja – the path of morality and concentration, instruction in the Brahmaviharas.
DN 16 [DN II 72-168] Mahaparinibbana (The Great Passing: The Buddha's Last Days): to various parties, including: to the brahmin Vassakara – seven principles for preventing decline of a community; to the householders of Pataligama – five perils of bad morality; to Ambapali the courtesan – on general Dhamma; to Pukkusa the Malla – the claim of the Buddha's followers concerning states of samadhi.
DN 23 [DN II 316-358] Payasi (About Payasi: Debate with a Sceptic): Ven. Kumarakassapa to Prince Payasi and the brahmins and householders of Setavya – the right path and the fruits of kamma, and against annihilationism.
DN 27 [DN III 80-98] Aggañña (On Knowledge of Beginnings): to the brahmins Vasettha and Bharadvaja (novice monks) – on the wrong beliefs of brahmins in regard to caste, plus an account of the development of our current world and society.
DN 28 [DN III 99-116] Sampasadaniya (Serene Faith): to Ven. Sariputta – on the course leading to unsurpassed supreme enlightenment –Schäfer writes: '… at the end of the discourse the Buddhas tells Sariputta that it should always be told to householders…'.
DN 31 [DN III 180-193] Sigalaka [Singalovada] (To Sigalaka: Advice to Lay people): to the youth Sigalaka [Singala] – worshipping the six directions through the duties of a layperson to the six social groups worthy of respect and honour.
MN 4 [MN I 16-24] Bhayabherava (Fear and Dread): to the brahmin Janussoni – the qualities a monk needs in order to live alone in the forest.
MN 14 [MN I 91-95] Culadukkhakkhandha (The Shorter Discourse on the Mass of Suffering): to the Sakyan Mahanama – the understanding of the sensual pleasures.
MN 18 [MN I 108-114] Madhupindika (The Honeyball): to the Sakyan Dandapani – the Buddha's doctrine is not easy to grasp: not to live in discord with anyone in the world; not to be obsessed by sense impressions; not to be troubled by doubts; and not to crave for any form of existence.
MN 27 [MN I 175-184] Culahatthipadopama (The Shorter Discourse on the Simile of the Elephant's Footprint): to the brahmin Janussoni – explanation of how a disciple arrives at complete certainty of the truth of the doctrine.
MN 30 [MN I 198-205] Culasaropama (The Shorter Discourse on the Heartwood Simile): to the brahmin Pingalakoccha – the proper goal of the holy life is unshakeable deliverance of mind.
MN 35 [MN I 227-237] Culasaccaka (Shorter Discourse to Saccaka): to the wanderer Saccaka Niganthaputta (Aggivessana), and a host of Licchavis – the non-self nature of the five aggregates.
MN 41 [MN I 285-290] Saleyyaka (The Brahmins of Sala): to the brahmin householders of Sala – ten demeritorious and ten meritorious deeds.
MN 42 [MN I 290-291] Verañjaka (The Brahmins of Verañja): to the brahmin householders of Verañja – ten demeritorious and ten meritorious deeds (same as MN 41).
MN 44 [MN I 299-305] Culavedalla (The Shorter Series of Questions and Answers): the bhikkhuni Dhammadinna to the householder Visakha – on identity view, its origin, cessation, and the way leading to the cessation of identity view.
MN 51 [MN I 339-349] Kandaraka (To Kandaraka): to the wanderer Kandaraka and Pessa the elephant driver's son – accomplishments in concentration and the four establishments of mindfulness, plus four kinds of persons in the world.
MN 52 [MN I 349-353] Atthakanagara (The Man from Atthakanagara): Ven. Ananda to the householder Dasama from Atthakanagara – eleven 'doors to the deathless'.
MN 53 [MN I 353-359] Sekha (The Disciple in Higher Training): Ven. Ananda to the householder Mahanama and the Sakyans of Kapilavatthu – the path of sila, samadhi, and pañña to be followed by an aspirant to higher knowledge.
MN 54 [MN I 359-368] Potaliya (To Potaliya): to the householder Potaliya – cutting oneself off from the world and the dangers of sensual pleasures.
MN 55 [MN I 368-371] Jivaka (To Jivaka): to the physician Jivaka – the regulations (for monks and nuns) regarding meat-eating, and on eating in moderation and with reflection.
MN 56 [MN I 371-387] Upali (To Upali): to the householder Upali, a wealthy lay disciple of Nigantha Nataputta – his conversion from supporting the Jains; volition and mental action more productive of resultant effects than physical and vocal action.
MN 58 [MN I 392-396] Abhayarajakumara (To Prince Abhaya): to Prince Abhaya – speech to be uttered and not to be uttered.
MN 59 [MN I 396-400] Bahuvedaniya (The Many Kinds of Feeling): Ven. Udayi to the carpenter Pañcakanga, and then the Buddha to Ven. Ananda – on the Dhamma being taught through different methods of exposition: e.g., two, three, five, six, eighteen, thirty-six and 108 kinds of feeling; and on the successively higher levels of happy feeling.
MN 60 [MN I 400-413] Apannaka (The Incontrovertible Teaching): to the brahmin householders of Sala – the wrong views of sectarians contrasted with the right views of the Buddha; the disadvantages and advantages of both.
MN 78 [MN II 22-29] Samanamandika (Samanamandikaputta): to the carpenter Pañcakanga – how one attains to the supreme attainment through wholesome habits and intentions.
MN 81 [MN II 45-54] Ghatikara (Ghatikara the Potter): to Ven. Ananda – about Ghatikara the Potter and his great devotion to the Buddha Kassapa.
MN 82 [MN II 54-74] Ratthapala (On Ratthapala): to the clansman Ratthapala of Thullakotthita – getting permission from parents before ordaining as a monk; then later Ven. Ratthapala to King Koravya – the value of renunciation through four summaries of the Dhamma: life is unstable, has no shelter, has nothing of its own, and is insatiate.
MN 84 [MN II 83-90] Madhura (At Madhura): Ven. Mahakaccana to King Avantiputta of Madhura – refuting the brahmin claim of being the highest caste; one's morality establishes one's true nobility.
MN 85 [MN II 91-97] Bodhirajakumara (To Prince Bodhi): to Prince Bodhi – refuting the claim that pleasure is to be obtained through pain; five factors of striving: a bhikkhu has faith, good health, integrity, energy, and wisdom.
MN 86 [MN II 97-105] Angulimala (On Angulimala): to the bandit Angulimala – his conversion and attainment of arahantship.
MN 87 [MN II 106-112] Piyajatika (Born from Those Who are Dear): to a grieving householder of Savatthi, and to King Pasenadi, indirectly through Queen Mallika – how sorrow and grief arise from attachment to those who are dear.
MN 88 [MN II 112-117] Bahitika (The Cloak): Ven. Ananda to King Pasenadi – questions on the Buddha's behaviour and discussion of unwholesome and wholesome deeds, words, and thoughts.
MN 89 [MN II 118-125] Dhammacetiya (Monuments to the Dhamma): to King Pasenadi – veneration for the Buddha turned into monuments to the Dhamma.
MN 90 [MN II 125-133] Kannakatthala (At Kannakatthala): to King Pasenadi – five factors of striving, questions on omniscience, caste distinctions, and the gods and Brahma.
MN 91 [MN II 133-146] Brahmayu (To Brahmayu): to the old brahmin Brahmayu and his disciple Uttara – the 32 marks of a great man; and a graduated discourse on the Dhamma.
MN 92 [MN II 146-146] Sela (To Sela): to the brahmin Sela of Apana and three hundred young brahmin followers – on having faith in the Buddha.
MN 93 [MN II 147-157] Assalayana (To Assalayana): to the young brahmin Assalayana – refuting the brahmin's claim to be the highest caste.
MN 94 [MN II 157-163] Ghotamukha (To Ghotamukha): Ven. Udena to the brahmin Ghotamukha – the renunciant life; four kinds of persons engaged in ascetic practice.
MN 95 [MN II 164-177] Canki (With Canki): to the brahmin Canki of Opasada and the young brahmin student Kapathika Bharadvaja – refutation of the 'Three Vedas' for the preservation and discovery of, and final arrival at, truth.
MN 96 [MN II 177-184] Esukari (To Esukari): to the brahmin Esukari – refuting the brahmin's claim to be the highest caste; not only the brahmins can develop loving-kindness; not birth, but the practice of wholesome Dhamma, that makes a person noble.
MN 97 [MN II 184-196] Dhanañjani (To Dhanañjani): Ven. Sariputta to the brahmin Dhanañjani – negligence and diligence, and the brahmaviharas.
MN 98 [MN II 196-196] Vasettha (To Vasettha): to the brahmin students Vasettha and Bharadvaja – the qualities of a true brahmin; one becomes a true brahmin by cutting off his fetters of defilements, having removed the obstacle of ignorance, and attained knowledge of the four noble truths.
MN 99 [MN II 196-209] Subha (To Subha): to the young brahmin student Subha, Toddeyya's son – comparison of the benefits of the householder's path and that of the renunciate.
MN 100 [MN II 209-213] Sangarava (To Sangarava): to the brahmin student Sangarava – the basis for teaching the fundamentals of the holy life.
MN 105 [MN II 252-261] Sunakkhata (To Sunakkhata): to the Licchavi Sunakkhata – on over-estimating one's spiritual attainments and the essentials in which one must become accomplished before one could claim arahatship.
MN 107 [MN III 1-7] Ganaka Moggallana (To Ganaka Moggallana): to the brahmin Ganaka Moggallana – the detailed steps of training in the practice.
MN 108 [MN III 7-15] Gopaka Moggallana (To Gopaka Moggallana): Ven. Ananda to the brahmins Gopaka Moggallana and Vassakara, the chief minister of Maghada – how the Sangha maintains its integrity and unity following the Buddha's parinibbana.
MN 114 [MN III 45-61] Sevitabbasevitabba (To Be Cultivated and Not to Be Cultivated): the Buddha (in brief) and Ven. Sariputta (in detail) to the bhikkhus – on actions and practices that a bhikkhu or layperson should and should not resort to.
MN 125 [MN III 128-61] Dantabhumi (The Grade of the Tamed): to the novice Aciravata – on how Prince Jayasena could not hope to achieve such dhammas as concentration and jhana since he was a layperson and lived surrounded by sensual pleasures; the simile of the tamed and the wild elephant.
MN 126 [MN III 138-144] Bhumija (Bhumija): Ven. Bhumija to prince Jayasena; then by the Buddha to Ven. Bhumija – on the fruits of living the holy life; further elaborated on by the Buddha.
MN 127 [MN III 144-152] Anuruddha (Anuruddha): Ven. Anuruddha to the householder Pañcakanga, the carpenter – the difference between immeasurable deliverance of mind (through practice of the brahmaviharas) and exalted deliverance of mind (through kasina meditation).
MN 135 [MN III 202-206] Culakammavibhanga (The Shorter Exposition of Action): to the young brahmin student Subha, Todeyya's son – how past kamma leads to fortunate and unfortunate circumstances in human lives.
MN 142 [MN III 253-257] Dakkhinavibhanga (The Exposition of Offerings): to Ven. Ananda and indirectly to Mahapajapati Gotami, when she was still a layperson – on fourteen kinds of offerings to individuals, seven kinds of offerings to the Sangha, and four kinds of purification of offering.
MN 143 [MN III 258-263] Anathapindikovada (Advice to Anathapindika): Ven. Sariputta to the householder Anathapindika – advice on his deathbed; radical non-clinging to anything at all, and through that, liberation; and Anathapindika's asking why he had never been taught like this before.
MN 150 [MN III 290-293] Nagaravindeyya (To the Nagaravindans): to the brahmin householders of Nagaravinda – which renunciants and brahmins should be venerated and which should not.
MN 152 [MN III 298-302] Indriyabhavana (The Development of the Faculties): to the brahmin student Uttara (briefly); then to Ven. Ananda (in detail) – the difference between the control of the senses practised by an arahant and that practised by one still under training.
SN 3.1 <112> [SN I 68-70 <157-161>] Dahara (Young): to King Pasenadi – four things not to be despised as 'young'.
SN 3.2 <113> [SN I 70-71 <162-162>] Purisa (A Person): to King Pasenadi – greed, hatred, and delusion arising in a person.
SN 3.3 <114> [SN I 71-71 <163-164>] Jaramarana (Aging and Death): to King Pasenadi – aging and death spare no one.
SN 3.4 <115> [SN I 71-72 <164-166>] Piya (Dear): to King Pasenadi – treating oneself as dear through good bodily, verbal, and mental conduct.
SN 3.5 <116> [SN I 72-73 <166-168>] Attarakkhita (Self-Protected): to King Pasenadi – protecting oneself through good bodily, verbal, and mental conduct.
SN 3.6 <117> [SN I 73-74 <168-169>] Appaka (Few): to King Pasenadi – few are those who are not intoxicated by great wealth.
SN 3.7 <118> [SN I 74-74 <170-171>] Addakarana (The Judgement Hall): to King Pasenadi – corrupt judges who lie for the sake of sensual pleasures.
SN 3.8 <119> [SN I 75-75 <171-172>] Mallika (Mallika): to King Pasenadi – one who loves himself should treat others the same way.
SN 3.9 <120> [SN I 75-76 <172-174>] Yañña (Sacrifice): to the bhikkhus – in reference to a sacrifice being set up by King Pasenadi, how only a sacrifice that does not involve killing brings great fruit.
SN 3.10 <121> [SN I 76-77 <174-176>] Bandhana (Bondage): to the bhikkhus – in reference to people put in bondage by King Pasenadi, how infatuation with jewellery and earrings and concern for wives and children is the true bondage.
SN 3.11 <122> [SN I 77-79 <176-181>] Sattajatila (Seven Jatilas): to King Pasenadi – a person is not easily known by outward form.
SN 3.12 <123> [SN I 79-81 <181-185>] Pañcaraja (Five Kings): to five kings headed by King Pasenadi – five cords of sensual pleasure.
SN 3.13 <124> [SN I 81-82 <185-187>] Donapaka (A Bucket Measure of Food): to King Pasenadi – moderation in eating.
SN 3.16 <127> [SN I 86-86 <193-194>] Dhitu (Daughter): to King Pasenadi – having a daughter may turn out better than having a son.
SN 3.17 <128> [SN I 86-87 <195-196>] Appamada (Diligence 1): to King Pasenadi – diligence provides well-being in this life and the next.
SN 3.18 <129> [SN I 87-89 <196-201>] Kalyanamitta (Diligence 2): to King Pasenadi – diligence in wholesome states through having good friends and companions.
SN 3.19 <130> [SN I 89-91 <201-205>] Pathama aputtaka (Childless 1): to King Pasenadi – proper utilisation of wealth.
SN 3.20 <131> [SN I 91-93 <205-209>] Dutiya aputtaka (Childless 2): to King Pasenadi – one's actions as the only lasting wealth.
SN 3.21 <132> [SN I 93-96 <209-216>] Puggala (Persons): to King Pasenadi – four kinds of person found in the world: the one heading from darkness to darkness, the one heading from darkness to light, the one heading from light to darkness, the one heading from light to light.
SN 3.22 <133> [SN I 96-98 <216-218>] Ayyaka (Grandmother): to King Pasenadi – all beings are subject to death.
SN 3.23 <134> [SN I 98-98 <218-219>] Loka (World): to King Pasenadi – greed, hatred, delusion.
SN 3.24 <135> [SN I 98-100 <219-224>] Issattha (Archery): to King Pasenadi – giving is of great fruit to one who has abandoned five factors (hindrances) and possesses five factors (virtue, concentration, wisdom, liberation, knowledge and vision).
SN 3.25 <136> [SN I 100-101 <224-229>] Pabbatupama (The Simile of the Mountain): to King Pasenadi – on living by the Dhamma as aging and death roll in.
SN 6.3 <174> [SN I 140-142 <306-310>] Brahmadeva (Brahmadeva): Brahma Sahampati to a brahmin lady (mother of Brahmadeva) – giving alms to renunciants.
SN 7.1 <187> [SN I 160-161 <344-347>] Dhanañjani (Dhanañjani): to a brahmin of Bharadvaja (husband of Dhanañjani) – slaying anger.
SN 7.2 <188> [SN I 161-163 <347-350>] Akkosa (Abuse): to the brahmin Akkosaka Bharadvaja – comparing not accepting abuse to not accepting a meal; the anger stays with the one offering it.
SN 7.3 <189> [SN I 163-164 <350-351>] Asurindika (Asurindika): to the brahmin Asurindika Bharadvaja – responding to abuse.
SN 7.4 <190> [SN I 164-164 <351-352>] Bilangika (Bilangika): to the brahmin Bilangika Bharadvaja – evil returning to the abuser.
SN 7.5 <191> [SN I 164-165 <352-353>] Ahimsika (Ahimsika): to the brahmin Ahimsika Bharadvaja – harmlessness.
SN 7.6 <192> [SN I 165-165 <353-354>] Jata (Tangle): to the brahmin Jata Bharadvaja – disentangling the tangle.
SN 7.7 <193> [SN I 165-166 <354-356>] Suddhika (Suddhika): to the brahmin Suddhika Bharadvaja – the true supreme purity.
SN 7.8 <194> [SN I 166-167 <356-358>] Aggika (Aggika): to the brahmin Aggika Bharadvaja – the true triple knowledge.
SN 7.9 <195> [SN I 167-170 <358-364>] Sundarika (Sundarika): to the brahmin Sundarika Bharadvaja – conduct rather than birth makes one a brahmin.
SN 7.10 <196> [SN I 170-171 <365-368>] Bahudhitu (Many Daughters): to a brahmin of Bharadvaja – being free from the cares of the household life.
SN 7.11 <197> [SN I 172-173 <369-373>] Kasi (Kasi): to the brahmin Kasi Bharadvaja – ploughing which has the Deathless as its fruit.
SN 7.12 <198> [SN I 173-174 <373-374>] Udaya (Udaya): to the brahmin Udaya – highlighting samsara.
SN 7.13 <199> [SN I 174-175 <375-377>] Devahita (Devahita): to the brahmin Devahita – the gift that bears the greatest fruit.
SN 7.14 <200> [SN I 175-177 <377-381>] Mahasala (The Affluent One): to an affluent brahmin – shaming sons that had rejected an aged father.
SN 7.15 <201> [SN I 177-178 <381-385>] Manatthaddha (Manatthaddha): to the brahmin Manatthaddha – conceit and showing reverence.
SN 7.16 <202> [SN I 179-179 <385-386>] Paccanika (Paccanika): to the brahmin Paccanikasata – instruction to Paccanikasata ('Relisher of Contradiction') about casting away aversion and distrust in order to hear well-spoken counsel without contradicting.
SN 7.17 <203> [SN I 179-180 <386-388>] Navakammika (Navakammika): to the brahmin Navakammika Bharadvaja – cutting the roots of defilements.
SN 7.18 <204> [SN I 180-181 <388-390>] Katthahara (The Wood Gatherers): to the brahmin of the Bharadvaja clan – meditating alone in the forest.
SN 7.19 <205> [SN I 181-182 <390-392>] Matuposaka (The Mother Supporter): to a brahmin who supported his mother – the merit of supporting one's parents.
SN 7.21 <207> [SN I 182-183 <393-395>] Sangarava (Sangarava): to the brahmin Sangarava – the non-necessity of water-purification.
SN 7.22 <208> [SN I 184-184 <395-397>] Khomadussa (Khomadussa): to the brahmin householders of Khomadussa – what is a true council.
SN 10.5 <239> [SN I 208-209 <448-451>] Sanu (Sanu): a yakkha to the female lay follower Sanu – the non-doing of evil deeds.
SN 10.8 <242> [SN I 210-212 <455-458>] Sudatta (Sudatta): a yakkha to the householder Anathapindika – Anathapindika (Sudatta) being urged on by a yakkha to his first meeting of with the Buddha; on sleeping well when one has cut off attachments.
SN 11.11 <257> [SN I 228-228 <492-493>] Vatapada (Vows): to the bhikkhus – Sakka and the seven vows of a good life.
SN 11.12 <258> [SN I 229-229 <493-494>] Sakkanama (Sakka's Names): to the bhikkhus – Sakka and the seven vows of a good life.
SN 11.13 <259> [SN I 230-231 <495-497>] Mahali (Mahali): to Mahali – Sakka and the seven vows of a good life.
SN 12.41 [SN II 68-70] Pañcabhayavera (Five Fearful Animosities): to the householder Anathapindika – five perils and enmities (non-virtuous behaviour), four factors of stream-entry (unwavering confidence in Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha, and flawless virtue), and penetration with wisdom of dependent origination.
SN 12.46 [SN II 75-76] Aññatarabrahmana (A Certain Brahmin): to a brahmin – the middle way on 'who' experiences results of actions.
SN 12.47 [SN II 76-77] Janussoni (Janussoni): to the brahmin Janussoni – the middle way on existence and non-existence.
SN 12.48 [SN II 77-77] Lokayatika (A Cosmologist): to a brahmin cosmologist – the middle way on existence, non-existence, unity, and plurality.
SN 17.23 [SN I 235-236] Ekaputta (Only Son): to the bhikkhus – about how a faithful female lay follower should implore her only son to be like, as a lay disciple, Citta the householder and Hatthaka of Alavi, or as a bhikkhu, like Sariputta and Moggallana.
SN 17.24 [SN I 236-236] Ekadhitu (Only Daughter): to the bhikkhus – about how a faithful female lay follower should implore her only daughter to be, as a lay disciple, like Khujjuttara and Velukandakiya Nandamata, or as a bhikkhuni, like Khema and Uppalavanna.
SN 22.1 [SN III 1-5] Nakulapita (Nakulapita): in brief by the Buddha, in full by Ven. Sariputta to the householder Nakulapita – error in identifying a self through each of the five aggregates.
SN 22.3 [SN III 9-12] Pathamahaliddakani (Haliddakani 1): Ven. Mahakaccana to the householder Haliddakani – on not abiding in the five aggregates.
SN 22.4 [SN III 12-13] Dutiyahaliddakani (Haliddakani 2): Ven. Mahakaccana to the householder Haliddakani – the cessation of craving for the five aggregates.
SN 22.49 [SN III 48-50] Pathamasona (Sona 1): to the householder's son Sona – regarding oneself as superior, equal, or inferior on the basis of the five aggregates.
SN 22.50 [SN III 50-51] Dutiyasona (Sona 2): to the householder's son Sona – the five aggregates analysed through the four noble truths: suffering, origin, cessation, path.
SN 22.60 [SN III 68-71] Mahali (Mahali): to Mahali the Licchavi – the cause for the defilement of beings, and the purification of beings: the pleasure in the five aggregates causing people to be enamoured of them, and the turning away from such pleasure.
SN 35.124 [SN IV 109-109] Vesali (Vesali): to the householder Ugga of Vesali – on not seeking delight in the objects of the six sense bases.
SN 35.125 [SN IV 109-110] Vajji (Vajji): to the householder Ugga of Hatthigama – on not seeking delight in the objects of the six sense bases (same as 124).
SN 35.126 [SN IV 110-110] Nalanda (Nalanda): to the householder Upali – on not seeking delight in the objects of the six sense bases (same as 124).
SN 35.127 [SN IV 110-113] Bharadvaja (Bharadvaja): Ven. Pindola Bharadvaja to King Udena – on managing to lead a celibate life through considering all women as mothers, sisters or daughters; the asubha contemplations; and not grasping at signs and features of the six sense bases.
SN 35.128 [SN IV 113-113] Sona (Sona): to the householder's son Sona – on not seeking delight in the objects of the six sense bases (same as 124).
SN 35.129 [SN IV 113-114] Ghosita (Ghosita): Ven. Ananda to the householder Ghosita – on the diversity of elements.
SN 35.130 [SN IV 115-116] Haliddakani (Haliddakani): Ven. Mahakaccana to the householder Haliddakani – on the diversity of elements leading to diversity of contacts and to diversity of feelings.
SN 35.131 [SN IV 116-116] Nakulapita (Nakulapita): to the householder Nakulapita – on not seeking delight in the objects of the six sense bases (same as 124).
SN 35.132 [SN IV 116-121] Lohicca (Lohicca): Ven. Mahakaccana to the brahmin Lohicca and his brahmin youth students – on guarding the sense doors as the true path for attaining Brahma.
SN 35.133 [SN IV 121-124] Verahaccani (Verahaccani): Ven. Udayi to the brahmin lady of the Verahaccani clan and her brahmin youth student – on the cessation of the six sense bases for there to be no pleasure and pain.
SN 35.241  <35.200> [SN IV 179-181] Pathamadarukkhandhopama (The Simile of the Great Log 1): to the bhikkhus and the cowherd Nanda who was standing by – on not veering to the near and far shore, etc:, as a simile for not getting caught up by the six sense bases and their objects and desire and lust for them.
SN 36.19 [SN IV 223-228] Pañcakanga (Pañcakanga): Ven. Udayi to the carpenter Pañcakanga, and then the Buddha to Ven. Ananda – on the Dhamma being taught through different methods of exposition: e.g., two, three, five, six, eighteen, thirty-six and 108 kinds of feeling; and on the successively higher levels of happy feeling.
SN 41.1 [SN IV 281-283] Samyojana (The Fetter): a number of elder bhikkhus to the householder Citta – the desire and lust which arise in dependence on both is the fetter for each sense base and its object.
SN 41.2 [SN IV 283-285] Pathama Isidatta (Isidatta 1): Ven. Isidatta to the householder Citta – on the diversity of the eighteen elements: each sense base, each of their objects, and the consciousness that arises in each.
SN 41.3 [SN IV 285-288] Dutiya Isidatta (Isidatta 2): Ven. Isidatta to the householder Citta – 62 speculative views.
SN 41.4 [SN IV 288-291] Mahakapatihariya (Mahaka's Miracle): Ven. Mahaka to the householder Citta – a superhuman miracle of spiritual power.
SN 41.5 [SN IV 291-292] Pathamakamabhu (Kamabhu 1): the householder Citta to Ven. Kamabhu – explanation of a cryptic verse about the liberation from bondage.
SN 41.6 [SN IV 293-295] Dutiyakamabhu (Kamabhu 2): Ven. Kamabhu to the householder Citta – bodily, verbal, and mental formations.
SN 41.7 [SN IV 295-297] Godatta (Godatta): Ven. Godatta to the householder Citta – the measureless liberation of mind, the liberation of mind by nothingness, the liberation of mind by emptiness, and the signless liberation of mind.
SN 41.8 [SN IV 297-300] Niganthanataputta (Nigantha Nataputta): the householder Citta to Nigantha Nataputta – direct experience of the jhanas as opposed to mere faith in them.
SN 41.9 [SN IV 300-302] Acelakassapa (The Naked Ascetic Kassapa): the householder Citta to the naked ascetic Kassapa – superhuman distinction in knowledge and vision worthy of the noble ones.
SN 41.10 [SN IV 302-304] Gilanadassana (Seeing the Sick): the householder Citta to his friends and companions – on having confirmed confidence in the Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha, and being freely generous.
SN 42.1 [SN IV 305-306] Canda (Canda): to the headman Canda the Wrathful – on abandoning lust in order to change from wrathful to gentle.
SN 42.2 [SN IV 306-308] Talaputa (Talaputa): to the troupe headman Talaputa – on the unhappy destination after death for an actor who entertains and amuses people by truth and lies.
SN 42.3 [SN IV 308-309] Yodhajiva (Yodhajiva): to the headman Yodhajiva the Mercenary – on the unhappy destination after death for a mercenary who strives and exerts himself in battle.
SN 42.4 [SN IV 310-310] Hattharoha (Hattharoha): to the headman Hattharoha the Elephant Warrior – on the unhappy destination after death for an elephant warrior who strives and exerts himself in battle.
SN 42.5 [SN IV 310-311] Assaroha (Assaroha): to the headman Assaroha the Cavalry Warrior – on the unhappy destination after death for a cavalry warrior who strives and exerts himself in battle.
SN 42.6 [SN IV 311-314] Asibandhakaputta (Asibandhakaputta): to the headman Asibandhakaputta – on the efficacy of wholesome conduct by body, speech, and mind as the way to a happy destination after death, in contrast to post-mortem rituals by brahmins.
SN 42.7 [SN IV 314-317] Khettupama (The Simile of the Field): to the headman Asibandhakaputta – on why the Blessed one teaches the Dhamma thoroughly to some and not so thoroughly to others.
SN 42.8 [SN IV 317-322] Sankhadhama (The Conch Blower): to the headman Asibandhakaputta, a lay disciple of the niganthas – on the transcending of past evil kamma through the abandoning of evil deeds.
SN 42.9 [SN IV 322-325] Kula (Families): to the headman Asibandhakaputta, a lay disciple of the niganthas – on the non-destruction of families by almsgiving, and the eight causes and conditions for the destruction of families.
SN 42.10 [SN IV 325-327] Maniculaka (Maniculaka): to the headman Maniculaka – on how gold and silver are not allowable for the ascetic followers of the Buddha.
SN 42.11 [SN IV 327-330] Bhadraka (Bhadraka): to the headman Bhadraka – on how all suffering is rooted in desire (chanda).
SN 42.12 [SN IV 330-340] Rasiya (Rasiya): to the headman Rasiya – on the middle way; the grounds for praising or censuring one who enjoys sensual pleasures; the grounds for praising or censuring one who lives a rough life; the three kinds of wearing away.
SN 42.13 [SN IV 340-359] Pataliya (Pataliya): to the headman Pataliya – on how bad conduct of body, speech, or mind does not necessarily have bad consequences in the here and now; right view; and concentration of the Dhamma.
SN 44.1 [SN IV 374-380] Khema (Khema): the bhikkhuni Khema to King Pasenadi – on why one cannot answer the undeclared questions.
SN 45.24 [SN V 18-19] Dutiyapatipada (The Way 2): to the bhikkhus – on the right and wrong way for either a layperson or one gone forth.
SN 46.55 [SN V 121-126] Sangarava (Sangarava): to the brahmin Sangarava – why hymns do and do not recur to the mind; water similes for the five hindrances.
SN 46.56 [SN V 126-128] Abhaya (Abhaya): to Prince Abhaya – five hindrances as cause for lack of knowledge and vision; seven factors of enlightenment as cause for knowledge and vision.
SN 47.25 [SN V 174-174] Aññatarabrahmana (A Certain Brahmin): to a certain brahmin – the reason why the true Dhamma does not endure long after the Tathagata dies.
SN 47.29 [SN V 176-177] Sirivaddha (Sirivaddha): Ven. Ananda to the householder Sirivaddha – having gained the fruit of non-returning through the four establishments of mindfulness.
SN 47.30 [SN V 178-178] Manadinna (Manadinna): Ven. Ananda to the householder Manadinna – having gained the fruit of non-returning through the four establishments of mindfulness.
SN 48.42 [SN V 217-219] Unnabhabrahmana (The Brahmin Unnabha): to the brahmin Unnabha – the different domains of the the eye, ear, nose, tongue, and body faculties.
SN 51.15 [SN V 271-273] Unnabhabrahmana (The Brahmin Unnabha): Ven. Ananda to the brahmin Unnabha – abandoning desire through the development of the four bases for spiritual power.
SN 54.12 [SN V 327-328] Kankheyya (In Perplexity): Ven. Lomasavangisa to Mahanama the Sakyan – difference between the dwelling of a trainee and the dwelling of the Tathagata.
SN 55.3 [SN V 344-346] Dighavu (Dighavu): to the lay follower Dighavu – the four factors of stream-entry and the six things that partake of true knowledge.
SN 55.6 [SN V 348-352] Thapati (The Chamberlains): to the chamberlains Isidatta and Purana – four factors of stream-entry: confirmed confidence in the Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha, and generosity.
SN 55.7 [SN V 352-356] Veludvareyya (The People of Bamboo Gate): to the brahmin householders of Bamboo Gate – the golden rule: good bodily and verbal conduct through the consideration of not doing to others as one would not want done to oneself; and four factors of stream-entry: confirmed confidence in the Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha, and unbroken virtue.
SN 55.21 [SN V 369-371] Pathamamahanama (Mahanama 1): to Mahanama the Sakyan – the mind of a person, fortified for a long time by faith, virtue, learning, generosity, and wisdom, goes upward to distinction.
SN 55.22 [SN V 371-371] Dutiyamahanama (Mahanama 2): to Mahanama the Sakyan – the mind of a person, fortified for a long time by faith, virtue, learning, generosity, and wisdom, inclines towards nibbana.
SN 55.23 [SN V 371-374] Godha (Godha): to Mahanama the Sakyan and Godha the Sakyan – recognizing a stream-enterer.
SN 55.24 [SN V 375-377] Pathamasarakani (Sarakani 1): to Mahanama the Sakyan – many ways of recognizing a stream-enterer.
SN 55.25 [SN V 378-380] Dutiyasarakani (Sarakani 2): to Mahanama the Sakyan – many ways of recognizing a stream-enterer.
SN 55.26 [SN V 380-385] Pathama Anathapindika (Anathapindika 1): Ven. Sariputta to the householder Anathapindika; the Buddha to Ven. Ananda – the four factors of stream-entry in ten modes.
SN 55.27 [SN V 385-387] Dutiya Anathapindika (Anathapindika 2): Ven. Ananda to the householder Anathapindika – declaration of the fruit of stream-entry through the four factors: unwavering confidence in Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha, and flawless virtue.
SN 55.28 [SN V 387-389] Pathamabhayaverupasanta (Fearful Animosities 1): to the householder Anathapindika – five perils and enmities (non-virtuous behaviour), four factors of stream-entry (unwavering confidence in Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha, and flawless virtue), and penetration with wisdom of dependent origination.
SN 55.30 [SN V 389-390] Nandakalicchavi (The Licchavi): to Nandaka, the minister of the Licchavis – the four factors of stream-entry, and other benefits that these factors endow.
SN 55.37 [SN V 395-395] Mahanama (Mahanama): to Mahanama the Sakyan – how a lay follower is accomplished in virtue, faith, generosity, and wisdom.
SN 55.39 [SN V 396-397] Kaligodha (Kaligodha): to Kaligodha the Sakyan lady – how a noble female lay follower is declared a stream-enterer through possessing the four factors of stream-entry.
SN 55.40 [SN V 397-399] Nandiya (Nandiya): to Nandiya the Sakyan – how a noble disciple dwells negligently or diligently through the four factors of stream-entry by either being content with each factor and not making a further effort for solitude and seclusion or by not being content with each and making further effort.
SN 55.47 [SN V 403-403] Nandiya (Nandiya): to Nandiya the Sakyan – a noble disciple is a stream-enterer through the four factors of stream-entry.
SN 55.48 [SN V 403-403] Bhaddiya (Bhaddiya): to Bhaddiya the Sakyan – a noble disciple is a stream-enterer through the four factors of stream-entry (same as 47 above).
SN 55.49 [SN V 404-404] Mahanama (Mahanama): to Mahanama the Sakyan – a noble disciple is a stream-enterer through the four factors of stream-entry (same as 47 above).
SN 55.52 [SN V 405-406] Vassamvuttha (One Who Spent the Rains): a certain bhikkhu to the Sakyans of Kapilavatthu – arahants are fewer than non-returners, who in turn are fewer than once-returners, who in turn are fewer than stream-enterers.
SN 55.53 [SN V 406-408] Dhammadinna (Dhammadinna): to the lay follower Dhammadinna and five hundred lay followers – not easy for householders to dwell upon those discourses that are deep in meaning, supramundane, dealing with emptiness; stream-entry through the four factors is more easily attainable.
SN 55.54 [SN V 408-410] Gilana (Ill): to Mahanama the Sakyan – the four factors of stream-entry and reflections for a stream-enterer on his death-bed.
AN 2.16 <2.2.6> [AN I 55-56]: to a certain brahmin – effect of conduct in accordance with Dhamma on rebirth.
AN 2.17 <2.2.7> [AN I 56-57]: to the brahmin Janussoni – effect of good and bad conduct on rebirth.
AN 2.34 <2.4.3> [AN I 62-62]: to a certain brahmin – on doctrines of activity and inactivity.
AN 2.35 <2.4.4> [AN I 62-63]: to the householder Anathapindika – the two worthy of offerings.
AN 2.37 <2.4.6> [AN I 65-67]: Mahakaccana to the brahmin Aramadanda – on why lay people quarrel (attachment to sense pleasures) and why renunciants quarrel (attachment to views).
AN 2.38 <2.4.7> [AN I 67-68]: Mahakaccana to the brahmin Kandarayana – veneration to aged or to those renouncing sensual pleasures.
AN 2.40 <2.4.9> [AN I 69-69]: to the bhikkhus – about right practice for a layperson or a bhikkhu.
AN 3.31 [AN I 132-132] Sabrahmaka (With Brahma): to the bhikkhus – about lay veneration of parents.
AN 3.35 <3.34> [AN I 136-138] Hatthaka (Hatthaka): to Hatthaka of Alavi – on not losing sleep due to fevers caused by greed, hatred or delusion.
AN 3.48 [AN I 152-153] Pabbataraja (The King of Mountains): to the bhikkhus – based on the head of a family endowed with faith, the people within the family grow in three ways: in faith, in virtuous behaviour, and in wisdom.
AN 3.51 [AN I 155-155] Pathamadvebrahmana (Two Brahmins 1): to two aged brahmins – self-restraint of body, speech and thought.
AN 3.52 [AN I 156-156] Dutiyadvebrahmana (Two Brahmins 2): to two aged brahmins – self-restraint of body, speech and thought.
AN 3.53 [AN I 156-157] Aññatarabrahmana (A Certain Brahmin): to a certain brahmin – greed, hatred, delusion; the visible teaching.
AN 3.55 [AN I 158-159] Nibbuta (Attained to Nibbana): to the brahmin Janussoni – abandoning greed, hatred, delusion as the directly visible nibbana.
AN 3.56 [AN I 159-160] Paloka (Depopulation): to a brahmin of great wealth – reasons for decrease of human beings.
AN 3.58 [AN I 163-166] Tikanna (Tikanna): to the brahmin Tikanna – the threefold knowledge in the discipline of the Noble One.
AN 3.59 [AN I 166-168] Janussoni (Janussoni): to the brahmin Janussoni – the threefold knowledge in the discipline of the Noble One.
AN 3.60 [AN I 168-173] Sangarava (Sangarava): to the brahmin Sangarava – the three powers in the discipline of the Noble One.
AN 3.63 [AN I 180-185] Venagapura (Venagapura): to the brahmin householder Vacchagotta and other brahmin householders of Venagapura – the celestial high and luxurious bed, the divine high and luxurious bed, and the noble high and luxurious bed.
AN 3.65 [AN I 188-193] Kesaputti [Kalama] (Those of Kesaputta [Kalama]): to the Kalamas of Kesaputta – the origins of the unwholesome: greed, hatred, delusion.
AN 3.66 [AN I 193-197] Salha (Salha): Ven. Nandaka to Salha, Migara's grandson, and Rohana, Pekhuniya's grandson – the origins of the unwholesome: greed, hatred, delusion.
AN 3.70 [AN I 205-215] Uposatha (Uposatha): to Visakha, Migara's mother – three kinds of uposatha observance.
AN 3.72 [AN I 217-219] Ajivaka (Ajivaka): Ananda to a householder disciple of the Ajivakas – a Dhamma teaching the abandonment of greed, hatred, delusion is well expounded, is practised by those practising the good way, and leads to no more future arising.
AN 3.73 [AN I 219-220] Mahanamasakka (Mahanama the Sakyan): Ven. Ananda to the Sakyan Mahanama – a noble disciple should be accomplished in morality, concentration, and wisdom.
AN 3.74 [AN I 220-222] Nigantha (The Nigantha): Ven. Ananda to the Licchavis Abhaya and Panditakumaraka – three ways of purification of morality, concentration, and wisdom, as opposed to the purification preached by the niganthas.
AN 3.109 <3.105> [AN I 261-262] Arakkhita (Unprotected): to the householder Anathapindika – protection of bodily, verbal and mental actions.
AN 3.110 <3.106> [AN I 262-263] Byapanna (Failed): to the householder Anathapindika – one whose bodily, verbal, and mental activities fail will not have a good death.
AN 3.126 <3.124> [AN I 276-278] Bharandukalama (Bharandu the Kalama): to Mahanama the Sakyan and Bharandu the Kalama – three kinds of teachers.
AN 3.127 <3.125> [AN I 278-279] Hatthaka (Hatthaka): to the young deva Hatthaka – on how, as a layperson, Hatthaka was insatiable in seeing the Buddha, hearing the good Dhamma, and attending upon the Sangha.
AN 4.35 [AN II 35-37] Vassakara (Vassakara): to the brahmin Vassakara – four qualities of a great man of great wisdom: one is practising for the welfare of many, has mastery of the mind, gains at will the four jhanas, and is liberated.
AN 4.36 [AN II 37-39] Dona (Dona): to the brahmin Dona – four beings that the Buddha will not become: deva, gandhabba, yakkha, or human being.
AN 4.39 [AN II 42-43] Ujjaya (Ujjaya): to the brahmin Ujjaya – four sacrifices not praised.
AN 4.40 [AN II 43-44] Udayi (Udayi): to the brahmin Udayi – four sacrifices not praised.
AN 4.53 [AN II 57-59] Pathamasamvasa (Living Together 1): to an assembly of male and female householders travelling along the highway between Madhura and Verañja – four kinds of marriages: about the right way for a husband and wife to live together.
AN 4.54 [AN II 59-60] Dutiyasamvasa (Living Together 2): to the bhikkhus – four kinds of marriages: about the right way for a husband and wife to live together.
AN 4.55 [AN II 61-62] Pathamasamajivi (The Same in Living 1): to the householder Nakulapita and housewife Nakulamata – four ways in which a husband and wife are well-matched (faith, virtue, generosity, wisdom).
AN 4.56 [AN II 62-62] Dutiyasamajivi (The Same in Living 2): to the bhikkhus – four ways in which a husband and wife are well-matched (faith, virtue, generosity, wisdom).
AN 4.57 [AN II 62-63] Suppavasa (Suppavasa): to the female disciple Suppavasa – four things [later] received from the gift of food: life, beauty, happiness, and strength.
AN 4.58 [AN II 63-64] Sudatta (Sudatta): to the householder Anathapindika – four things [later] received from the gift of food: life, beauty, happiness, and strength.
AN 4.59 [AN II 64-64] Bhojana (Food): to the bhikkhus – four things [later] received from the gift of food: life, beauty, happiness, and strength.
AN 4.60 [AN II 65-65] Gihisamicipatipada (The Layperson's Proper Practice): to the householder Anathapindika – four qualities proper to a householder: he presents robes to the Sangha of bhikkhus; he presents alms food; he presents lodging; he presents medicinal requisites and [other] supports for the sick.
AN 4.61 [AN II 65-69] Pattakamma (Worthy Deeds): to the householder Anathapindika – four things wished for and rarely attained by a householder: wealth, fame, health and long life, and a good rebirth; four qualities that lead to these things: accomplishment in faith, virtuous behaviour, generosity, and wisdom; plus four worthy ways of using one's wealth: maintaining oneself, one's family and associates, making provision for losses, making oblations to departed relatives, and making offerings to ascetics.
AN 4.62 [AN II 69-70] Ananya (Freedom from Debt): to the householder Anathapindika – four kinds of happiness that may be achieved by the householder: happiness of ownership, of enjoyment, of freedom from debt, and of blamelessness.
AN 4.63 [AN II 70-70] Brahma (With Brahma): to the bhikkhus – on veneration of parents.
AN 4.111 [AN II 112-113] Kesi (Kesi): to the horse-trainer Kesi – four ways to train a person.
AN 4.183 [AN II 172-173] Suta [Pathamavassakara] (Heard): to the brahmin Vassakara – upon speaking about what has been seen, heard, sensed, and cognised.
AN 4.184 [AN II 173-176] Abhaya [Janussoni] (Fearless): to the brahmin Janussoni – about fearing death and not fearing death.
AN 4.187 [AN II 179-181] Vassakara (Vassakara): to the brahmin Vassakara – on how a bad person cannot recognise good and bad in others, but a good person can.
AN 4.188 [AN II 181-182] Upaka (Upaka): to Upaka Mandikaputta – on the unwholesome which is to be abandoned and the wholesome which is to be developed.
AN 4.193 [AN II 190-194] Bhaddiya (Bhaddiya): to the Licchavi Bhaddiya – abandoning of unprofitable things: greed, hatred, delusion, and aggressiveness.
AN 4.194 [AN II 194-196] Sapugiya [Samugiya] (Sapuga): Ven. Ananda to the Byagghapajjas, a number of young Koliyans from Sapuga – four factors of exertion for purification: purity of virtuous behaviour, purity of mind, purity of view, purity of liberation.
AN 4.195 [AN II 196-200] Vappa (Vappa): to the Sakyan Vappa, disciple of Nataputta – four ways to prevent asavas arising in the future.
AN 4.196 [AN II 200-202] Salha (Salha): to the Licchavis Salha and Abhaya – path of purity of virtuous behaviour and path of self-mortification.
AN 4.197 [AN II 202-205] Mallika (Mallika): to Queen Mallika – why women are born ugly and poor, ugly and rich, beautiful and poor, beautiful and rich.
AN 4.234 <4.233> [AN II 232-233] Sonakayana (Sonakayana): to the brahmin Sikhamoggallana – four kinds of actions comprehended and made known by the Buddha: dark action with dark result; bright action with bright result; dark-and-bright action with dark-and-bright result; and action that is neither dark nor bright with neither-dark-nor-bright result, i.e., action that leads to the destruction of action.
AN 5.31 [AN III 32-34] Sumana (Sumana): to the princess Sumana – five ways in which a giver surpasses a non-giver.
AN 5.32 [AN III 35-36] Cundi (Cundi): to the princess Cundi – the Tathagata is the best teacher, dispassion the best of phenomena, the Dhamma the best doctrine, the Sangha the best community, and the precepts loved by the noble ones the best virtuous behaviour.
AN 5.33 [AN III 36-38] Uggaha (Uggaha): to the daughters of householder Uggaha, Mendaka's grandson – five duties of a wife.
AN 5.34 [AN III 38-40] Sihasenapati (Siha the General): to the general Siha – five directly visible fruits of giving.
AN 5.35 [AN III 41-41] Dananisamsa (The Benefits of Giving): to the bhikkhus – about the advantages of giving.
AN 5.36 [AN III 41-41] Kaladana (Timely Gifts): to the bhikkhus – about timely gifts.
AN 5.37 [AN III 42-42] Bhojana (Food): to the bhikkhus – five things that one gives, giving food.
AN 5.38 [AN III 42-43] Saddha (One With Faith): to the bhikkhus – five benefits that accrue to a clansman endowed with faith.
AN 5.39 [AN III 43-44] Putta (Son): to the bhikkhus – considering five prospects, mother and father wish for a son.
AN 5.40 [AN III 44-44] Mahasala (Great Sal Trees): to the bhikkhus – based on the head of the family endowed with faith, the people within the family grow in five ways.
AN 5.41 [AN III 45-46] Pañcabhoga adiya (Five Utilisations of Wealth): to the householder Anathapindika – five utilisations of wealth.
AN 5.42 [AN III 46-47] Sappurisa (The Superior Person): to the bhikkhus – when a superior person is born in a family, it is for the good, welfare, and happiness of many people.
AN 5.43 [AN III 47-49] Pañca itthadhamma (Five Wished For Things): to the householder Anathapindika – five things that are wished for and rarely gained.
AN 5.44 [AN III 49-51] Manapadayi (The Giver of Agreeable Foods): to the householder Ugga of Vesali – the giver of what is agreeable gains what is agreeable.
AN 5.47 [AN III 53-54] Pañcadhana (Five Kinds of Wealth): to the bhikkhus – five kinds of wealth for a layperson: faith, virtuous behaviour, learning, generosity, and wisdom.
AN 5.49 [AN III 57-57] Kosala (Kosala): to king Pasenadi – five situations that are unobtainable by anyone in the world.
AN 5.50 [AN III 57-62] Sokasallaharana (Extracting the Arrow of Sorrow): Ven. Narada to the king Munda – five situations that are unobtainable by anyone in the world.
AN 5.57 [AN III 53-54] Abhinhapaccavekkhitabbathana (Themes Often To Be Reflected Upon): to the bhikkhus – five themes that should often be reflected upon by a woman or a man, by a householder or one gone forth.
AN 5.58 [AN III 75-78] Licchavikumara (The Licchavi Youths): to the Licchavi youth Mahanama – five utilisations of wealth.
AN 5.63 [AN III 80-80] Pathamavaddhi (Growth 1): to the bhikkhus – five kinds of noble growth for a male noble disciple – growth in faith, virtuous behaviour, learning, generosity, and wisdom.
AN 5.64 [AN III 80-80] Dutiyavaddhi (Growth 2): to the bhikkhus – five kinds of noble growth for a female noble disciple – growth in faith, virtuous behaviour, learning, generosity, and wisdom.
AN 5.143 [AN III 167-169] Sarandada (Sarandada): to five hundred Licchavis at Vesali – five treasures rarely revealed in the world.
AN 5.148 [AN III 172-173] Sappurisadana (A Superior Person's Gifts): to the bhikkhus – five gifts of a superior person.
AN 5.171 [AN III 203-203] Sarajja (Timidity): to the bhikkhus – possessing five qualities (breaking the precepts) a lay follower is overcome with timidity.
AN 5.172 [AN III 203-204] Visarada (Self-Confidence): to the bhikkhus – possessing five qualities (breaking the precepts) a lay follower dwells without self-confidence at home.
AN 5.173 [AN III 204-204] Niraya (Hell): to the bhikkhus – possessing five qualities (breaking the precepts) a lay follower is deposited in hell.
AN 5.174 [AN III 204-206] Vera (Enemies): to the householder Anathapindika – the five perils and enemies of immorality.
AN 5.175 [AN III 206-206] Upasakacandala (A Candala of a Lay Disciple): to the bhikkhus – five bad and good qualities of a lay disciple.
AN 5.176 [AN III 206-208] Piti (Rapture): to the householder Anathapindika and five hundred lay followers – five things that do not occur in him who enters and dwells in the rapture of solitude.
AN 5.177 [AN III 208-208] Vanijja (Trades): to the bhikkhus – five trades a lay disciple should not engage in.
AN 5.179 [AN III 211-214] Gihi (Householder): to the householder Anathapindika and five hundred lay followers, via Ven. Sariputta – five training rules and four dwellings in happiness.
AN 5.180 [AN III 214-218] Gavesi (Gavesi): to Ven. Ananda – five successively higher ways of striving, following the path of the lay follower Gavesi and his becoming a bhikkhu.
AN 5.192 [AN III 223-230] Dona (Dona): to the brahmin Dona – five kinds of brahmin.
AN 5.193 [AN III 230-236] Sangarava (Sangarava): to the brahmin Sangarava – why the hymns are not remembered; water similes of the five hindrances.
AN 5.194 [AN III 236-239] Karanapali (Karanapali): the brahmin Pingiyani to the brahmin Karanapali – five joys of hearing the Dhamma.
AN 5.195 [AN III 239-240] Pingiyani (Pingiyani): to the brahmin Pingiyani and the Licchavis – five gems rarely manifested in the world.
AN 5.199 [AN III 244-245] Kula (Families): to the bhikkhus – five ways in which families generate much merit when approached by virtuous renunciants.
AN 5.227 [AN III 259-259] Bhoga (Wealth): to the bhikkhus – five dangers and benefits in wealth.
AN 5.228 [AN III 260-260] Ussurabhatta (A Meal Late in the Day): to the bhikkhus – five dangers for a family in eating a meal late in the day.
AN 6.10 [AN III 284-288] Mahanama (Mahanama): to Mahanama the Sakyan – six recollections in which a noble disciple dwells.
AN 6.16 [AN III 295-298] Nakulapitu (Nakulapita): to the householder Nakulapita – six advantages of having a good wife.
AN 6.37 [AN III 336-337] Chalangadana (A Six-Factored Gift ): to the bhikkhus – about an offering to the Sangha of bhikkhus by the female lay follower Velukantaki Nandamata that is possessed of six factors: the donor is joyful before, while, and after giving; and the recipients are devoid of, or practising for the subduing of, lust, hatred, and delusion.
AN 6.38 [AN III 337-338] Attakara (Personal Initiative): to a certain brahmin – personal initiative and initiative on the part of others based on six elements: instigation, endeavour, exertion, strength, continuation, and force.
AN 6.44 [AN III 347-351] Migasala (Migasala): to the female lay follower Migasala, via Ven. Ananda – six types of people found existing in the world.
AN 6.48 [AN III 357-358] Dutiyasanditthika (Directly Visible 2): to a certain brahmin – six ways in which the Dhamma is directly visible.
AN 6.52 [AN III 362-364] Khattiya (Khattiya): to the brahmin Janussoni – the aims of six types of people.
AN 6.53 [AN III 364-365] Appamada (Heedfulness): to a certain brahmin – six similes on the superiority of heedfulness.
AN 6.59 [AN III 391-392] Darukammika (Darukammika): to the householder Darukammika – gifts given to the Sangha.
AN 7.7 [AN IV 6-7] Uggamahamatta (Ugga the Chief Minister): to Ugga, King Pasenadi's chief minister – seven kinds of wealth not subject to destruction.
AN 7.21 <7.19> [AN IV 16-17] Sarandada (Sarandada): to the Licchavis – seven principles of non-decline.
AN 7.22 <7.20> [AN IV 17-21] Vassakara (Vassakara): to Vassakara, King Ajatasattu's chief minister – seven principles of non-decline.
AN 7.29 <7.27> [AN IV 25-26] Upasaka Aparihaniya (The Non-Decline of a Lay Follower ): to the bhikkhus – seven things leading to the decline/non-decline of a lay follower.
AN 7.30 <7.28> [AN IV 26-26] Upasaka Vipatti (A Lay Follower's Failure): to the bhikkhus – seven failures/successes of a lay follower.
AN 7.31 <7.29-30> [AN IV 26-26] Upasaka Parabhava (A Lay Follower's Setbacks): to the bhikkhus – seven setbacks/victories of a lay follower.
AN 7.47 <7.44> [AN IV 41-46] Mahayañña (The Great Sacrifice): to the brahmin Uggatasarira – seven fires.
AN 7.50 <7.47> [AN IV 54-56] Methuna (Sexual Intercourse): to the brahmin Janussoni – seven actions that blemish the celibate life.
AN 7.52 <7.49> [AN IV 59-63] Danamahapphala (The Great Fruits of Giving): to lay followers from Campa, via Sariputta – seven ways of giving so that it is of great fruit and benfit.
AN 7.53 <7.50> [AN IV 63-67] Nandamata (Nandamata): Sariputta to the female lay follower Velukantaki Nandamata – seven marvellous qualities.
AN 7.57 <7.54> [AN IV 79-82] Sihasenapati (Siha the General): to the general Siha – seven directly visible fruits of giving.
AN 7.63 <7.59> [AN IV 91-94] Sattabhariya (Seven Wives): to Sujata, Anathapindika's daughter-in-law – seven kinds of wives.
AN 8.11 [AN IV 172-179] Verañja (Verañja): to a brahmin of Verañja – on why the Buddha is preeminent among men.
AN 8.12 [AN IV 179-188] Sihasenapati (Siha the General): to the general Siha – a comparison of the Buddha's teachings compared to other wanderer's teachings.
AN 8.21 [AN IV 208-212] Vesalika Ugga (Ugga of Vesali): the householder Ugga of Vesali to one of the Buddha's bhikkhus – on eight wonderful and marvellous qualities ascribed by the Buddha to Ugga of Vesali.
AN 8.22 [AN IV 212-216] Hatthigamaka Ugga (Ugga of Hatthigama): the householder Ugga of Hatthigama to one of the Buddha's bhikkhus – on eight wonderful and marvellous qualities ascribed by the Buddha to Ugga of Hatthigama.
AN 8.23 [AN IV 216-218] Hatthakalavaka (Hatthaka of Alavi): to the bhikkhus – on eight wonderful and marvellous qualities ascribed by the Buddha to Hatthaka of Alavi.
AN 8.24 [AN IV 218-220] Hatthakalavaka sangahavatthu (Hatthaka of Alavi's Bases of Attracting a Retinue): to Hatthaka of Alavi – bases for attracting a retinue; eight wonderful and marvellous qualities of Hatthaka.
AN 8.25 [AN IV 220-222] Mahanama (Mahanama): to Mahanama the Sakyan – on the qualities of a lay follower (faith, virtue, generosity, seeing bhikkhus, hearing, learning, examining, and understanding the Dhamma).
AN 8.26 [AN IV 222-223] Jivaka (Jivaka): to the physician Jivaka Komarabhacca – on the qualities of a lay follower (faith, virtue, generosity, seeing bhikkhus, hearing, learning, examining, and understanding the Dhamma).
AN 8.43 [AN IV 255-258] Visakhuposatha (Visakha's Uposatha): to Visakha Migaramata – observed complete in eight factors, the uposatha is of great fruit and benefit.
AN 8.44 [AN IV 258-259] Vasetthuposatha (Vasettha's Uposatha): to the male lay follower Vasettha – observed complete in eight factors, the uposatha is of great fruit and benefit.
AN 8.45 [AN IV 259-262] Bojjhuposatha (Bojjha's Uposatha): to the female lay follower Bojjha – observed complete in eight factors, the uposatha is of great fruit and benefit.
AN 8.46 [AN IV 262-266] Anuruddhamanapakayika (Anuruddha and the Agreeable-Bodied Deities): to Ven. Anuruddha – eight qualities whereby, with the breakup of the body, after death, a woman is reborn in companionship with the agreeable-bodied deities.
AN 8.47 [AN IV 267-267] Visakhamanapakayika (Visakha and the Agreeable-Bodied Deities): to Visakha Migaramata – eight qualities whereby, with the breakup of the body, after death, a woman is reborn in companionship with the agreeable-bodied deities.
AN 8.48 [AN IV 268-269] Nakulamatumanapakayika (Nakulamata and the Agreeable-Bodied Deities): to the housewife Nakulamata – eight qualities whereby, with the breakup of the body, after death, a woman is reborn in companionship with the agreeable-bodied deities.
AN 8.49 [AN IV 269-271] Pathamalokavijaya (Victory in the World 1): to Visakha Migaramata – four qualities of success for a woman in this life, and four qualities of success for a woman in the next life.
AN 8.50 [AN IV 271-273] Dutiyalokavijaya (Victory in the World 2): to the bhikkhus – four qualities of success for a woman in this life, and four qualities of success for a woman in the next life.
AN 8.51 [AN IV 274-279] Gotami (Gotami): to Mahapajapati Gotami, via Ven. Ananda – eight rules for a woman to go forth as a bhikkhuni.
AN 8.53 [AN IV 280-281] Sankhitta gotamiyovada (Brief Exhortation to Gotami): to Mahapajapati Gotami – eight things to which the Dhamma leads.
AN 8.54 [AN IV 281-285] Byagghapajja (Byagghapajja): to the Koliyan family man Dighajanu – four things that lead to the welfare and happiness of a clansman in this very life (accomplishment in initiative, accomplishment in protection, good friendship, and balanced living); and four things that lead to a clansman's welfare and happiness in the future life (accomplishment in faith, accomplishment in virtuous behaviour, accomplishment in generosity, and accomplishment in wisdom).
AN 8.55 [AN IV 285-289] Ujjaya (Ujjaya): to the brahmin Ujjaya – four things that lead to the welfare and happiness of a clansman in this very life (accomplishment in initiative, accomplishment in protection, good friendship, and balanced living); and four things that lead to a clansman's welfare and happiness in the future life (accomplishment in faith, accomplishment in virtuous behaviour, accomplishment in generosity, and accomplishment in wisdom) [same as #54].
AN 8.88 [AN IV 345-346] Appasadappasada (Lack of Confidence and Confidence): to the bhikkhus – eight qualities possessed by a bhikkhu, for which lay followers may proclaim their lack of confidence in him.
AN 9.20 [AN IV 392-396] Velama (Velama): to the householder Anathapindika – on the right way of giving; most fruitful if one would develop the perception of impermanence just for the time of a finger snap.
AN 9.27 [AN IV 405-407] Pathamaverabhaya (Enmity and Peril 1): to the householder Anathapindika – five perils and enmities (non-virtuous behaviour) and four factors of stream-entry (unwavering confidence in Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha, and flawless virtue).
AN 9.38 [AN IV 428-432] Lokayatika brahmana (The Brahmin Cosmologists): to two brahmin cosmologists – reaching the end of the world through the nine attainments of absorption (four jhanas, four formless attainments, and the cessation of perception and feeling).
AN 9.41 [AN IV 438-448] Tapussagahapati (The Householder Tapussa): to the householder Tapussa, via Ven. Ananda – the advantages of renunciation through reaching the nine attainments of absorption.
AN 10.26 [AN V 46-48] Kali (Kali): Mahakaccana to the female lay follower Kali of Kuraraghara – ten kasina attainments.
AN 10.28 [AN V 54-59] Dutiyamahapañha (Great Questions 2): the bhikkhuni of Kajangala to the lay followers of Kajangala – explanations of ten incremental sets: (i) nutriment, (ii) name and form, (iii) three kinds of feeling, (iv) four establishments of mindfulness, (v) five faculties, (vi) six elements of escape, (vii) seven factors of enlightenment, (viii) the noble eightfold path, (ix) nine abodes of beings, (x) ten wholesome courses of action.
AN 10.30 [AN V 65-70] Dutiyakosala (Kosala 2): King Pasenadi of Kosala to the Buddha – ten praises of the Buddha.
AN 10.46 [AN V 83-86] Sakya (Sakyans): to a number of Sakyan lay followers – observing Uposatha.
AN 10.47 [AN V 86-88] Mahali (Mahali): to the Licchavi Mahali – five causes for the doing of an evil action (greed, hatred, delusion, careless attention, an undirected mind) and five causes for the doing of a good action (the opposites).
AN 10.75 [AN V 137-144] Migasala (Migasala): to the female lay follower Migasala, via Ven. Ananda – ten types of people found existing in the world (explanation for different rebirths).
AN 10.91 [AN V 176-182] Kamabhogi (One Who Enjoys Sensual Pleasures): to the householder Anathapindika – ten kinds of persons who enjoy sensual pleasures found existing in the world.
AN 10.92 [AN V 182-184] Bhaya (Peril): to the householder Anathapindika – five perils and enmities (non-virtuous behaviour), four factors of stream-entry (unwavering confidence in the Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha, and flawless virtue), and the noble method clearly seen and thoroughly penetrated with wisdom (dependent origination).
AN 10.93 [AN V 185-189] Kimditthika (Holding What View?): to the householder Anathapindika – refutation of wrong views by other wanderers.
AN 10.94 [AN V 189-192] Vajjiyamahita (Vajjiyamahita): to the householder Vajjiyamahita – the teaching on making wholesome qualities increase and unwholesome qualities decline.
AN 10.117 [AN V 232-233] Sangarava (Sangarava): to the brahmin Sangarava – the near shore and the far shore (noble eightfold path, plus right knowledge and liberation).
AN 10.119 [AN V 233-236] Pathamapaccorohani (Paccorohani 1): to the brahmin Janussoni – ten ways the paccorohani festival is observed in the Noble One's discipline (noble eightfold path, plus right knowledge and liberation).
AN 10.167 [AN V 249-251] Brahmana paccorohani (The Paccorohani of the Brahmins): to the brahmin Janussoni – ten [other] ways the paccorohani festival is observed in the Noble One's discipline (understanding results of ten unwholesome courses of action).
AN 10.169 [AN V 252-253] Sangarava (Sangarava): to the brahmin Sangarava – the near shore and the far shore (ten unwholesome/wholesome courses of action).
AN 10.176 [AN V 263-268] Cunda (Cunda): to Cunda, the smith's son – the discipline of the noble ones; ten unwholesome/wholesome courses of action (three by body, four by speech, and three by mind).
AN 10.177 [AN V 269-273] Janussoni (Janussoni): to the brahmin Janussoni – the benefits of giving, combined with the ten courses of unwholesome/wholesome action.
AN 10.220 <10.209> [AN V 301-303] Adhammacariya (Conduct Contrary to the Dhamma): to a certain brahmin – unrighteous/righteous conduct, conduct contrary/according to the Dhamma, threefold by way of the body, fourfold by way of speech, and threefold by way of the mind.
AN 11.11 <11.12> [AN V 328-332] Pathamamahanama (Mahanama 1): to Mahanama the Sakyan – about eleven ways in which one should dwell, i.e., develop five faculties (faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration, wisdom) and six recollections (Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha, sila, generosity, devas).
AN 11.12 <11.13> [AN V 332-334] Dutiyamahanama (Mahanama 2): to Mahanama the Sakyan – about eleven ways in which one should dwell, i.e., develop five faculties (faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration, wisdom) and six recollections (Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha, sila, generosity, devas).
AN 11.13 <11.14> [AN V 334-337] Nandiya (Nandiya): to Nandiya the Sakyan – about eleven ways in which one should dwell, i.e., develop six faculties (faith, virtue, energy, mindfulness, concentration, wisdom) and five recollections (Buddha, Dhamma, good friends, generosity, devas).
AN 11.16 <11.17> [AN V 342-347] Atthakanagara (The Man from Atthakanagara): Ven. Ananda to the householder Dasama of Atthakanagara – eleven ways in which a bhikkhu attains the unsurpassed security from bondage (four jhanas, four brahmaviharas, three formless jhanas).
Khp 5 [Khp 2-3] Mahamangala (Great Good Fortune): to a deity – a catalogue of the highest blessings (targeted to lay people).
Khp 6 [Khp 3-6] Ratana (The Jewel): no addressee – in praise of the jewels of Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha (targeted to lay people).
Khp 9 [Khp 8-9] Metta (Loving Kindness): no addressee – in praise of love and goodwill to all beings (targeted to lay people).
Ud 1.4 [Ud 3-3] Humhunka [Nigrodha] (Haughty [Banyan Tree]): to a certain haughty brahmin – a brahmin is one who has abandoned evil states, not haughty, free from stains.
Ud 2.3 [Ud 11-12] Danda (Stick): to a number of boys hitting a snake with a stick – whoever harms beings does not obtain happiness after death.
Ud 2.5 [Ud 13-13] Upasaka (Lay Follower): to a certain lay follower from Icchanangala – one is afflicted by ownership.
Ud 2.7 [Ud 14-15] Ekaputtaka (The Only Son): to a certain lay follower whose only son had just died – most humans are fettered by what they hold dear.
Ud 2.8 [Ud 15-18] Suppavasa (Suppavasa): to Suppavasa the Koliyan daughter – discomfort, disguised as comfort, the unloved, disguised as the loved, and suffering, disguised as happiness, overpower the heedless one.
Ud 2.9 [Ud 18-18] Visakha (Visakha): to Visakha, Migara's mother – subjection to others is painful.
Ud 5.1 [Ud 47-47] Piyatara [Raja] (More Dear [King]): to King Pasenadi of Kosala – no one is more dear to oneself than oneself, therefore do not harm others.
Ud 5.3 [Ud 48-50] Suppabuddhakutthi (Suppabuddha the Leper): to Suppabuddha the leper – a gradual training to stream-entry.
Ud 5.4 [Ud 51-51] Kumaraka (The Boys): to a group of boys tormenting fish in a pool – if you fear pain, do not do evil deeds.
Ud 6.2 [Ud 64-66] Sattajatila [Jatila] (Naked Ascetic Beings [Naked Ascetics]): to King Pasenadi of Kosala – it is by living with a person that his virtue is known; by associating with a person that his purity is known; in adversity that a person's fortitude is known; and by discussion with a person that his wisdom is known.
Ud 8.6 [Ud 85-90] Pataligamiya (Patali Village): to the lay followers of Patali Village – on the five disadvantages for the immoral person through his failing in virtue, and the five benefits for a moral person through his achievement in virtue; to Sunidha and Vassakara, ministers of Magadha – wherever a wise man sets up a home he should feed the virtuous ones who live the holy life.
Ud 8.8 [Ud 91-92] Visakha (Visakha): to Visakha, Migara's mother – aspiring to be sorrowless and stainless, do not hold dear anything anywhere in the world.
Snp 1.2 (vv. 18-34) [Snp 3-6] Dhaniya (Dhaniya): to Dhaniya the herdsman – a comparison of the life of a layperson, attached to sensual pleasures, and one gone forth, freed from attachments.
Snp 1.4 (vv. 76-82) [Snp 12-16] Kasibharadvaja (Kasibharadvaja): to the brahmin Kasi Bharadvaja – on a different way of 'plowing' and 'sowing', with the deathless as its fruit.
Snp 1.5 (vv. 83-90) [Snp 16-18] Cunda (Cunda): to Cunda the smith – four kinds of ascetics.
Snp 1.6 (vv. 91-115) [Snp 18-20] Parabhava (Failure): to a deity – the causes of spiritual decline (targeted to lay people).
Snp 1.7 (vv. 116-142) [Snp 21-25] Vasala (The Outcast): to the brahmin Aggika Bharadvaja – on who is a true outcast.
Snp 1.8 (vv. 143-152) [Snp 25-26] Metta (Loving Kindness): no addressee – in praise of love and goodwill to all beings (targeted to lay people).
Snp 2.1 (vv. 222-238) [Snp 39-42] Ratana (The Jewel): no addressee – in praise of the jewels of Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha (targeted to lay people).
Snp 2.2 (vv. 239-252) [Snp 42-45] Amagandha (Tainted Fare): to the brahmin Kassapa – on what is tainted fare.
Snp 2.4 (vv. 258-269) [Snp 46-47] Mahamangala (Great Good Fortune): to a deity – a catalogue of the highest blessings (targeted to lay people).
Snp 2.7 (vv. 284-315) [Snp 50-55] Brahmanadhammika (Brahmanical Lore): to many wealthy, aged brahmins of Kosala – on whether brahmins now live in conformity with brahminical lore of old; against animal sacrifice.
Snp 2.9 (vv. 324-330) [snp56Snp 56-57] Kimsila (What Moral Conduct): no addressee – on right conduct (targeted to lay people).
Snp 2.14 (vv. 376-404) [Snp 66-71] Dhammika (Dhammika): to the lay follower Dhammika and five hundred other lay followers – on being a good disciple, whether monastic or lay; for laity, five precepts for regular life and eight precepts on uposatha days, and right livelihood.
Snp 3.1 (vv. 405-424) [Snp 72-74] Pabbajja (Going-forth): to King Bimbisara – on where he was born and why he went forth.
Snp 3.4 (vv. 455-486) [Snp 79-86] Sundarikabharadvaja (Sundarikabharadvaja): to the brahmin Sundarika Bharadvaja – on being a true 'brahmin', appropriate sacrifice, and the importance of one's conduct over one's birth.
Snp 3.5 (vv. 487-509) [Snp 86-91] Magha (Magha): to the young brahmin Magha – on generosity and merit, and the best recipients of giving.
Snp 3.7 (vv. 548-573) [Snp 102-112] Sela (Sela): to the brahmin Sela of Apana and three hundred young brahmin followers – on having faith in the Buddha [identical to MN 92].
Snp 3.9 (vv. 594-656) [Snp 115-123] Vasettha (Vasettha): to the young brahmins Vasettha and Bharadvaja – not by birth, but rather by action, does one become a brahmin.
Snp 4.9 (vv. 835-847) [Snp 163-166] Magandiya (Magandiya): to the brahmin Magandiya – purity does not come from philosophy, disputations and discussions, learning and austerities, but rather from inward peace.
Snp 4.15 (vv. 935-954) [Snp 182-185] Attadanda (Embraced Violence): no addressee – on proper conduct (targeted to monastics and lay people).
Thag 16.1 (vv. 705-725) [Thag 71-72] Adhimuttatthera (Elder Bhikkhu Adhimutta): Elder bhikkhu Adhimutta to a robber chief – no fear of death for one who is without longing.
Thig 12 (vv. 236-251) [Thig 146-147] Punnatheri (Elder Bhikkhuni Punna): Elder bhikkhuni Punna [Punnika] to a brahmin – water ablutions cannot rid one of evil kamma.
Thig 13.2 (vv. 271-290) [Thig 150-151] Rohinitheri (Elder Bhikkhuni Rohini): Elder bhikkhuni Rohini to her father, a wealthy brahmin – answering accusations that monks are lazy.
Thig 14 (vv. 366-399) [Thig 158-162] Subhajivakambavanikatheri (Elder Bhikkhuni Subha of Jivaka's Mango Grove): Elder bhikkhuni Subha of Jivaka's Mango Grove to a man lusting after her – on non-attachment to sensual pleasures; she plucks out her 'lovely' eye and makes the man have a change of heart about pursuing her!
Thig 16 (vv. 448-522) [Thig 167-174] Sumedhatheri (Elder Nun Sumedha): Elder bhikkhuni Sumedha, daughter of King Koñca, to her parents – on her decision to go forth and why.


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