{"id":"an5.155","title":"The Decline of the True Teaching (2nd)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an5.155","title":"The Decline of the True Teaching (2nd)","units":[{"id":"an5.155:0","sourceIds":["an5.155:0.1","an5.155:0.2","an5.155:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 5.155\n16. Saddhammavagga\nDutiyasaddhammasammosasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 5.155\n16. The True Teaching\nThe Decline of the True Teaching (2nd)"}},{"id":"an5.155:1","sourceIds":["an5.155:1.1","an5.155:1.2","an5.155:1.3","an5.155:1.4","an5.155:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Pañcime, bhikkhave, dhammā saddhammassa sammosāya antaradhānāya saṁvattanti.\nKatame pañca?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhū dhammaṁ na pariyāpuṇanti—\nsuttaṁ, geyyaṁ, veyyākaraṇaṁ, gāthaṁ, udānaṁ, itivuttakaṁ, jātakaṁ, abbhutadhammaṁ, vedallaṁ.\nAyaṁ, bhikkhave, paṭhamo dhammo saddhammassa sammosāya antaradhānāya saṁvattati.","en":"“Mendicants, these five things lead to the decline and disappearance of the true teaching.\nWhat five?\nIt’s when the mendicants don’t memorize the teaching—\nstatements, mixed prose & verse, discussions, verses, inspired exclamations, legends, stories of past lives, amazing stories, and elaborations.\nThis is the first thing that leads to the decline and disappearance of the true teaching."}},{"id":"an5.155:2","sourceIds":["an5.155:2.1","an5.155:2.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Puna caparaṁ, bhikkhave, bhikkhū yathāsutaṁ yathāpariyattaṁ dhammaṁ na vitthārena paresaṁ desenti.\nAyaṁ, bhikkhave, dutiyo dhammo saddhammassa sammosāya antaradhānāya saṁvattati.","en":"Furthermore, the mendicants don’t explain the teaching in detail to others as they learned and memorized it.\nThis is the second thing …"}},{"id":"an5.155:3","sourceIds":["an5.155:3.1","an5.155:3.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Puna caparaṁ, bhikkhave, bhikkhū yathāsutaṁ yathāpariyattaṁ dhammaṁ na vitthārena paraṁ vācenti.\nAyaṁ, bhikkhave, tatiyo dhammo saddhammassa sammosāya antaradhānāya saṁvattati.","en":"Furthermore, the mendicants don’t make others recite the teaching in detail as they learned and memorized it.\nThis is the third thing …"}},{"id":"an5.155:4","sourceIds":["an5.155:4.1","an5.155:4.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Puna caparaṁ, bhikkhave, bhikkhū yathāsutaṁ yathāpariyattaṁ dhammaṁ na vitthārena sajjhāyaṁ karonti.\nAyaṁ, bhikkhave, catuttho dhammo saddhammassa sammosāya antaradhānāya saṁvattati.","en":"Furthermore, the mendicants don’t rehearse the teaching in detail as they learned and memorized it.\nThis is the fourth thing …"}},{"id":"an5.155:5","sourceIds":["an5.155:5.1","an5.155:5.2","an5.155:5.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Puna caparaṁ, bhikkhave, bhikkhū yathāsutaṁ yathāpariyattaṁ dhammaṁ na cetasā anuvitakkenti anuvicārenti manasānupekkhanti.\nAyaṁ, bhikkhave, pañcamo dhammo saddhammassa sammosāya antaradhānāya saṁvattati.\nIme kho, bhikkhave, pañca dhammā saddhammassa sammosāya antaradhānāya saṁvattanti.","en":"Furthermore, the mendicants don’t think about and consider the teaching in their hearts, examining it with their minds as they learned and memorized it.\nThis is the fifth thing that leads to the decline and disappearance of the true teaching.\nThese five things lead to the decline and disappearance of the true teaching."}},{"id":"an5.155:6","sourceIds":["an5.155:6.1","an5.155:6.2","an5.155:6.3","an5.155:6.4","an5.155:6.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Pañcime, bhikkhave, dhammā saddhammassa ṭhitiyā asammosāya anantaradhānāya saṁvattanti.\nKatame pañca?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhū dhammaṁ pariyāpuṇanti—\nsuttaṁ, geyyaṁ, veyyākaraṇaṁ, gāthaṁ, udānaṁ, itivuttakaṁ, jātakaṁ, abbhutadhammaṁ, vedallaṁ.\nAyaṁ, bhikkhave, paṭhamo dhammo saddhammassa ṭhitiyā asammosāya anantaradhānāya saṁvattati.","en":"These five things lead to the continuation, persistence, and enduring of the true teaching.\nWhat five?\nIt’s when the mendicants memorize the teaching—\nstatements, mixed prose & verse, discussions, verses, inspired exclamations, legends, stories of past lives, amazing stories, and elaborations.\nThis is the first thing that leads to the continuation, persistence, and enduring of the true teaching."}},{"id":"an5.155:7","sourceIds":["an5.155:7.1","an5.155:7.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Puna caparaṁ, bhikkhave, bhikkhū yathāsutaṁ yathāpariyattaṁ dhammaṁ vitthārena paresaṁ desenti.\nAyaṁ, bhikkhave, dutiyo dhammo saddhammassa ṭhitiyā asammosāya anantaradhānāya saṁvattati.","en":"Furthermore, the mendicants explain the teaching in detail to others as they learned and memorized it.\nThis is the second thing …"}},{"id":"an5.155:8","sourceIds":["an5.155:8.1","an5.155:8.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Puna caparaṁ, bhikkhave, bhikkhū yathāsutaṁ yathāpariyattaṁ dhammaṁ vitthārena paraṁ vācenti.\nAyaṁ, bhikkhave, tatiyo dhammo saddhammassa ṭhitiyā asammosāya anantaradhānāya saṁvattati.","en":"Furthermore, the mendicants make others recite the teaching in detail as they learned and memorized it.\nThis is the third thing …"}},{"id":"an5.155:9","sourceIds":["an5.155:9.1","an5.155:9.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Puna caparaṁ, bhikkhave, bhikkhū yathāsutaṁ yathāpariyattaṁ dhammaṁ vitthārena sajjhāyaṁ karonti.\nAyaṁ, bhikkhave, catuttho dhammo saddhammassa ṭhitiyā asammosāya anantaradhānāya saṁvattati.","en":"Furthermore, the mendicants rehearse the teaching in detail as they learned and memorized it.\nThis is the fourth thing …"}},{"id":"an5.155:10","sourceIds":["an5.155:10.1","an5.155:10.2","an5.155:10.3","an5.155:10.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Puna caparaṁ, bhikkhave, bhikkhū yathāsutaṁ yathāpariyattaṁ dhammaṁ cetasā anuvitakkenti anuvicārenti manasānupekkhanti.\nAyaṁ, bhikkhave, pañcamo dhammo saddhammassa ṭhitiyā asammosāya anantaradhānāya saṁvattati.\nIme kho, bhikkhave, pañca dhammā saddhammassa ṭhitiyā asammosāya anantaradhānāya saṁvattantī”ti.\nPañcamaṁ.","en":"Furthermore, the mendicants think about and consider the teaching in their hearts, examining it with their minds as they learned and memorized it.\nThis is the fifth thing that leads to the continuation, persistence, and enduring of the true teaching.\nThese five things lead to the continuation, persistence, and enduring of the true teaching.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an5.155/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."}