{"id":"an4.139","title":"Dhamma Speakers","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an4.139","title":"Dhamma Speakers","units":[{"id":"an4.139:0","sourceIds":["an4.139:0.1","an4.139:0.2","an4.139:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.139\n14. Puggalavagga\nDhammakathikasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 4.139\n14. Individuals\nDhamma Speakers"}},{"id":"an4.139:1","sourceIds":["an4.139:1.1","an4.139:1.2","an4.139:1.3","an4.139:1.4","an4.139:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Cattārome, bhikkhave, dhammakathikā.\nKatame cattāro?\nIdha, bhikkhave, ekacco dhammakathiko appañca bhāsati asahitañca;\nparisā cassa na kusalā hoti sahitāsahitassa.\nEvarūpo, bhikkhave, dhammakathiko evarūpāya parisāya dhammakathikotveva saṅkhaṁ gacchati.","en":"“Mendicants, there are these four Dhamma speakers.\nWhat four?\nOne Dhamma speaker speaks little and off topic.\nAnd their assembly can’t tell what’s on topic and what’s off topic.\nSuch an assembly regards such a Dhamma speaker simply as a Dhamma speaker."}},{"id":"an4.139:2","sourceIds":["an4.139:2.1","an4.139:2.2","an4.139:2.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Idha pana, bhikkhave, ekacco dhammakathiko appañca bhāsati sahitañca;\nparisā cassa kusalā hoti sahitāsahitassa.\nEvarūpo, bhikkhave, dhammakathiko evarūpāya parisāya dhammakathikotveva saṅkhaṁ gacchati.","en":"One Dhamma speaker speaks little but stays on topic.\nAnd their assembly can tell what’s on topic and what’s off topic.\nSuch an assembly regards such a Dhamma speaker simply as a Dhamma speaker."}},{"id":"an4.139:3","sourceIds":["an4.139:3.1","an4.139:3.2","an4.139:3.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Idha pana, bhikkhave, ekacco dhammakathiko bahuñca bhāsati asahitañca;\nparisā cassa na kusalā hoti sahitāsahitassa.\nEvarūpo, bhikkhave, dhammakathiko evarūpāya parisāya dhammakathikotveva saṅkhaṁ gacchati.","en":"One Dhamma speaker speaks much but off topic.\nAnd their assembly can’t tell what’s on topic and what’s off topic.\nSuch an assembly regards such a Dhamma speaker simply as a Dhamma speaker."}},{"id":"an4.139:4","sourceIds":["an4.139:4.1","an4.139:4.2","an4.139:4.3","an4.139:4.4","an4.139:4.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Idha pana, bhikkhave, ekacco dhammakathiko bahuñca bhāsati sahitañca;\nparisā cassa kusalā hoti sahitāsahitassa.\nEvarūpo, bhikkhave, dhammakathiko evarūpāya parisāya dhammakathikotveva saṅkhaṁ gacchati.\nIme kho, bhikkhave, cattāro dhammakathikā”ti.\nNavamaṁ.","en":"One Dhamma speaker speaks much and stays on topic.\nAnd their assembly can tell what’s on topic and what’s off topic.\nSuch an assembly regards such a Dhamma speaker simply as a Dhamma speaker.\nThese are the four Dhamma speakers.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.139/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."}