The Great Chronicle of Buddhas
by Ven. Mingun Sayadaw | 1990 | 1,044,401 words
This page describes Ten Sounds contained within the book called the Great Chronicle of Buddhas (maha-buddha-vamsa), a large compilation of stories revolving around the Buddhas and Buddhist disciples. This page is part of the series known as anudīpanī on words and phrases. This great chronicle of Buddhas was compiled by Ven. Mingun Sayadaw who had a thorough understanding of the thousands and thousands of Buddhist teachings (suttas).
Part 5 - Ten Sounds
The Buddhavaṃsa enumerates only six sounds, not all ten. The Mahāparinibbāna Sutta of the Mahāvagga of the Dīgha Nikāya and the Buddhavaṃsa Commentary enumerates all ten. (This is followed by a comprehensive and critical survey of the ten sounds (dasasadda), which come differently in different texts, namely, the Buddhavaṃsa, the Mahāparinibbāna Sutta of the Dīgha Nikāya, Buddhavaṃsa Commentary, the Myanmar and Sri Lankan versions of the Jātaka Commentary, and the Mūla-Tīkā, for the benefit of Pāli scholars. We have left them out from our translation.)