Aranavibhanga Sutta, Aranavibhaṅga-sutta: 1 definition
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Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesThe 139th Sutta of the Majjhima Nikaya. It was preached at Jetavana and contains a statement and an exposition of the middle path of peace between the two extremes of pleasures of sense - low, ignoble and unprofitable - and self mortification, also painful and unprofitable. The path is the Noble Eightfold Path: in preaching the doctrine the preacher should neither appreciate nor depreciate it, he should teach the truth in abstract terms of general principle. He should not be a tale teller nor confront anyone with improper remarks; he should speak slowly and not hurriedly; he should neither affect provincialisms in speech nor depart from recognised parlance.
At the end of the discourse a young man, Subhuti, is praised because he walked where calm dwelt (M.iii.230-7; MA.ii.977-8).
Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
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