Mulapariyaya Sutta, Mūlapariyāya-sutta: 1 definition
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Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesThe first sutta of the Majjhima Nikaya. It was preached in the Subhagavana in Ukkattha, and is claimed as striking the keynote of the entire doctrine of the Buddha (sabbadhamma mulapariyaya). In the sutta the Buddha explains various contemporary systems of philosophy and points out the differences between these and his own system. It also deals with the theory of the soul and of Nibbana (M.i.1-6).
The Commentary* states that the five hundred monks to whom the sutta was addressed found no pleasure in listening to it. The Buddha, realizing this, preached to them the Mulapariyaya Jataka** (q.v.). Their pride was thereby vanquished, and they begged the Buddha for a subject of meditation. Later, when the Buddha was away journeying, staying at the Gotamaka cetiya in Vesali, he preached to them the Gotamaka Sutta and they became arahants.
* MA.ii.46ff.; see also AA.i.457 and J.ii.269, where it is stated that at the end of the Gotamaka Sutta the earth trembled.
** But in the introduction to the Jataka itself, it is stated that the Jataka was related, not to them, but in reference to them, after they had become Arahants.
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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Full-text: Subhagavana, Ukkattha, Abhibhu.
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Guide to Tipitaka (by U Ko Lay)
Part I - Mulapariyaya Vagga < [(a) Mulapannasa Pali]
Philosophy of language in the Five Nikayas (by K.T.S. Sarao)
2.5(c). Majjhima Nikāya (The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha) < [Chapter 1 - Introduction]
Cetasikas (by Nina van Gorkom)
Chapter 16 - Wrong View < [Part III - Akusala Cetasikas]