Vatthupama Sutta, Vatthūpama-sutta: 1 definition
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Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesThe seventh sutta of the Majjhima Nikaya (M.i.36ff). The Buddha says that, even as a dirty piece of cloth takes dyes badly, so in an impure heart bliss is not to be found. He then proceeds to enumerate the hearts impurities and to show how they can be cleansed. Sundarika Bharadvaja, who is present, asks the Buddha if he has bathed in the Bahuka. The Buddha then gives a list of places whose waters are considered holy, and declares that the real cleansing is the cleansing of the heart to love all that lives, speak truth, slay not nor steal, no niggard be but dwell in faith. Bharadvaja seeks ordination and becomes an arahant.
It is evidently this sutta which is referred to in the Sumangalavilasini (DA.i.50, 123), as the Vattha Sutta.
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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Partial matches: Sutta.
Full-text: Sundarika Bharadvaja.
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Philosophy of language in the Five Nikayas (by K.T.S. Sarao)
12.1. Defiled Mind and Pure Mind < [Chapter 4 - Philosophy of Language in the Five Nikāyas]
13. Development and Cultivation of the Four Immeasurable Minds < [Chapter 4 - Philosophy of Language in the Five Nikāyas]
2.5(c). Majjhima Nikāya (The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha) < [Chapter 1 - Introduction]
Buddhist Monastic Discipline (by Jotiya Dhirasekera)