{"id":"an4.129","title":"Incredible Things About Ānanda","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an4.129","title":"Incredible Things About Ānanda","units":[{"id":"an4.129:0","sourceIds":["an4.129:0.1","an4.129:0.2","an4.129:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.129\n13. Bhayavagga\nĀnandaacchariyasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 4.129\n13. Fears\nIncredible Things About Ānanda"}},{"id":"an4.129:1","sourceIds":["an4.129:1.1","an4.129:1.2","an4.129:1.3","an4.129:1.4","an4.129:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Cattārome, bhikkhave, acchariyā abbhutā dhammā ānande.\nKatame cattāro?\nSace, bhikkhave, bhikkhuparisā ānandaṁ dassanāya upasaṅkamati, dassanenapi sā attamanā hoti.\nTatra ce ānando dhammaṁ bhāsati, bhāsitenapi sā attamanā hoti.\nAtittāva, bhikkhave, bhikkhuparisā hoti, atha ānando tuṇhī bhavati.","en":"“Mendicants, there are these four incredible and amazing things about Ānanda.\nWhat four?\nIf an assembly of monks goes to see Ānanda, they’re uplifted by seeing him\nand uplifted by hearing him speak.\nAnd when he falls silent, they’ve never had enough."}},{"id":"an4.129:2","sourceIds":["an4.129:2.1","an4.129:2.2","an4.129:2.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sace, bhikkhave, bhikkhuniparisā ānandaṁ dassanāya upasaṅkamati, dassanenapi sā attamanā hoti.\nTattha ce ānando dhammaṁ bhāsati, bhāsitenapi sā attamanā hoti.\nAtittāva, bhikkhave, bhikkhuniparisā hoti, atha ānando tuṇhī bhavati.","en":"If an assembly of nuns …"}},{"id":"an4.129:3","sourceIds":["an4.129:3.1","an4.129:3.2","an4.129:3.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sace, bhikkhave, upāsakaparisā ānandaṁ dassanāya upasaṅkamati, dassanenapi sā attamanā hoti.\nTatra ce ānando dhammaṁ bhāsati, bhāsitenapi sā attamanā hoti.\nAtittāva, bhikkhave, upāsakaparisā hoti, atha ānando tuṇhī bhavati.","en":"laymen …"}},{"id":"an4.129:4","sourceIds":["an4.129:4.1","an4.129:4.2","an4.129:4.3","an4.129:4.4","an4.129:4.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sace, bhikkhave, upāsikāparisā ānandaṁ dassanāya upasaṅkamati, dassanenapi sā attamanā hoti.\nTatra ce ānando dhammaṁ bhāsati, bhāsitenapi sā attamanā hoti.\nAtittāva, bhikkhave, upāsikāparisā hoti, atha ānando tuṇhī bhavati.\nIme kho, bhikkhave, cattāro acchariyā abbhutā dhammā ānande”ti.\nNavamaṁ.","en":"or laywomen goes to see Ānanda, they’re uplifted by seeing him\nand uplifted by hearing him speak.\nAnd when he falls silent, they’ve never had enough.\nThese are the four incredible and amazing things about Ānanda.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.129/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."}