{"id":"an10.33","title":"A Judge","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an10.33","title":"A Judge","units":[{"id":"an10.33:0","sourceIds":["an10.33:0.1","an10.33:0.2","an10.33:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 10.33\n4. Upālivagga\nUbbāhikāsutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 10.33\n4. With Upāli\nA Judge"}},{"id":"an10.33:1","sourceIds":["an10.33:1.1","an10.33:1.2","an10.33:1.3","an10.33:1.4","an10.33:1.5","an10.33:1.6","an10.33:1.7","an10.33:1.8","an10.33:1.9","an10.33:1.10","an10.33:1.11","an10.33:1.12","an10.33:1.13","an10.33:1.14","an10.33:1.15"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Katihi nu kho, bhante, dhammehi samannāgato bhikkhu ubbāhikāya sammannitabbo”ti?\n“Dasahi kho, upāli, dhammehi samannāgato bhikkhu ubbāhikāya sammannitabbo.\nKatamehi dasahi?\nIdhupāli, bhikkhu sīlavā hoti; pātimokkhasaṁvarasaṁvuto viharati ācāragocarasampanno aṇumattesu vajjesu bhayadassāvī, samādāya sikkhati sikkhāpadesu;\nbahussuto hoti sutadharo sutasannicayo, ye te dhammā ādikalyāṇā majjhekalyāṇā pariyosānakalyāṇā sātthaṁ sabyañjanaṁ kevalaparipuṇṇaṁ parisuddhaṁ brahmacariyaṁ abhivadanti, tathārūpāssa dhammā bahussutā honti dhātā vacasā paricitā manasānupekkhitā diṭṭhiyā suppaṭividdhā;\nubhayāni kho panassa pātimokkhāni vitthārena svāgatāni honti suvibhattāni suppavattīni suvinicchitāni suttaso anubyañjanaso;\nvinaye kho pana ṭhito hoti asaṁhīro;\npaṭibalo hoti ubho atthapaccatthike saññāpetuṁ paññāpetuṁ nijjhāpetuṁ pekkhetuṁ pasādetuṁ;\nadhikaraṇasamuppādavūpasamakusalo hoti—\nadhikaraṇaṁ jānāti;\nadhikaraṇasamudayaṁ jānāti;\nadhikaraṇanirodhaṁ jānāti;\nadhikaraṇanirodhagāminiṁ paṭipadaṁ jānāti.\nImehi kho, upāli, dasahi dhammehi samannāgato bhikkhu ubbāhikāya sammannitabbo”ti.\nTatiyaṁ.","en":"“Sir, how many qualities should a mendicant have to be deemed a judge?”\n“Upāli, a mendicant should have ten qualities to be deemed a judge.\nWhat ten?\nIt’s when a mendicant is ethical, restrained in the monastic code, conducting themselves well and resorting for alms in suitable places. Seeing danger in the slightest fault, they keep the rules they’ve undertaken.\nThey’re very learned, remembering and keeping what they’ve learned. These teachings are good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end, meaningful and well-phrased, describing a spiritual practice that’s entirely full and pure. They are very learned in such teachings, remembering them, rehearsing them, mentally scrutinizing them, and penetrating them theoretically.\nBoth monastic codes have been passed down to them in detail, well analyzed, well mastered, well evaluated in both the rules and accompanying material.\nThey’re firm and unfaltering in the training.\nWhen there are opposing parties, they’re able to persuade, advocate, and convince them, make them see the other side and trust each other.\nThey’re skilled in the instigation and settlement of disciplinary issues.\nThey know what a disciplinary issue is.\nThey know how a disciplinary issue originates.\nThey know how a disciplinary issue ceases.\nThey know the practical way leading to the cessation of a disciplinary issue.\nA mendicant should possess these ten qualities to be deemed a judge.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an10.33/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}