Yamaka Sutta: 2 definitions
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Yamaka Sutta means something in Buddhism, Pali. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
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Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesThe Thera Yamaka held the view that, in so far as a monk has destroyed the asavas, he is broken up and perishes at the break up of the body and becomes not after death. Yamakas colleagues tried to correct this erroneous view (the heresy lies in the implication that a being is broken up and perishes; SA.ii.226.) but failed, and so reported him to Sariputta. Sariputta visited Yamaka and argued with him that if it were false to say of anybody that he existed in truth, in reality, even in this very life, how much more so to speak of someone existing or not existing after death. Yamaka thereupon confessed his error. Sariputta further elucidated the matter by using the simile of a man who enters the service of a rich householder with the intent to murder him. Such a man would always be a murderer, even though his master knew him not to be so. Even so, the disciple who regards body, etc., as permanent and so on, harbours a murderous view, even though he knows it not as such (S.iii.109ff).
The sutta is often referred to. (E.g., VibhA.32; Vsm.479; cp. Vsm.626 (Yamakato sammasana). Does Yamakato here mean according to the Yamaka Sutta?).
It is sometimes called the Yamakovada Sutta (E.g., Netti, p. 30).
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: Yamaka, Sutta.
Full-text: Yamaka.
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Guide to Tipitaka (by U Ko Lay)
(c) Khandha Vagga Saihyutta Pali < [Chapter VI - Samyutta Nikaya]
Visuddhimagga (the pah of purification) (by Ñāṇamoli Bhikkhu)
D. Classes of Knowledge of the Aggregates < [Chapter XIV - The Aggregates (khandha-niddesa)]
The Doctrine of Paticcasamuppada (by U Than Daing)
Straight from the Heart (by Acariya Maha Boowa Nanasampanno)