Shi Zhi Jushi Ba Cheng Ren Jing 十支居士八城人經

Translated by An Shigao in 1 scroll

Colophon

十支居士八城人經 後漢 安世高譯 共 1 卷 Shi Zhi Jushi Ba Cheng Ren Jing; translated by An Shigao in the Later Han in 1 scroll.

Notes

Relation to Pāli Canon from Lancaster (Lancaster 2004, 'K 704'; Majjhima Nikāya 52)

English Translation

From the Pāli Aṭṭhakanagarasutta (Bodhi 1995; Thanissaro 2004)

Summary

This text describes a meeting between the Venerable Ananda and a group of lay Buddhists from eight cities. The laymen, pleased with their successful business in the city, seek out Ananda to ask about how to achieve liberation. Ananda explains that through various practices like detachment, cultivating loving-kindness, and meditation, one can attain freedom from suffering and reach enlightenment. The laymen are deeply impressed and offer a generous donation to Ananda, who then shares it with the monastic community. (AI generated)

Primary Source

An Shigao, trans., 《十支居士八城人經》 'Shi Zhi Jushi Ba Cheng Ren Jing (Aṭṭhakanagarasutta),' in Taishō shinshū Daizōkyō 《大正新脩大藏經》, in Takakusu Junjiro, ed., (Tokyo: Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō Kankōkai, 1988), Vol. 1, No. 92, Accessed 2016-07-09, http://tripitaka.cbeta.org/T01n0092.

References

  1. Bodhi, 1995, The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya. Simon and Schuster.
  2. Lancaster, Lewis R. 2004. The Korean Buddhist Canon: A Descriptive Catalogue, http://www.acmuller.net/descriptive_catalogue.
  3. Thanissaro (trans.) 2004, "Atthakanagara Sutta: To the Man from Atthakanagara" (MN 52), Access to Insight (Legacy Edition), http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.052.than.html

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