{"id":"an5.175","title":"Corpse-worker","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an5.175","title":"Corpse-worker","units":[{"id":"an5.175:0","sourceIds":["an5.175:0.1","an5.175:0.2","an5.175:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 5.175\n18. Upāsakavagga\nCaṇḍālasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 5.175\n18. A Lay Follower\nCorpse-worker"}},{"id":"an5.175:1","sourceIds":["an5.175:1.1","an5.175:1.2","an5.175:1.3","an5.175:1.4","an5.175:1.5","an5.175:1.6","an5.175:1.7","an5.175:1.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Pañcahi, bhikkhave, dhammehi samannāgato upāsako upāsakacaṇḍālo ca hoti upāsakamalañca upāsakapatikuṭṭho ca.\nKatamehi pañcahi?\nAssaddho hoti;\ndussīlo hoti;\nkotūhalamaṅgaliko hoti, maṅgalaṁ pacceti no kammaṁ;\nito ca bahiddhā dakkhiṇeyyaṁ gavesati;\ntattha ca pubbakāraṁ karoti.\nImehi kho, bhikkhave, pañcahi dhammehi samannāgato upāsako upāsakacaṇḍālo ca hoti upāsakamalañca upāsakapatikuṭṭho ca.","en":"“Mendicants, a lay follower with five qualities is a corpse-worker, a stain, and a reject among lay followers.\nWhat five?\nThey’re faithless.\nThey’re unethical.\nThey follow boisterous, superstitious rites, believing in omens rather than deeds.\nThey seek outside of the Buddhist community for those worthy of religious donations.\nAnd they make offerings there first.\nA lay follower with these five qualities is a corpse-worker, a stain, and a reject among lay followers."}},{"id":"an5.175:2","sourceIds":["an5.175:2.1","an5.175:2.2","an5.175:2.3","an5.175:2.4","an5.175:2.5","an5.175:2.6","an5.175:2.7","an5.175:2.8","an5.175:2.9"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Pañcahi, bhikkhave, dhammehi samannāgato upāsako upāsakaratanañca hoti upāsakapadumañca upāsakapuṇḍarīkañca.\nKatamehi pañcahi?\nSaddho hoti;\nsīlavā hoti;\nakotūhalamaṅgaliko hoti, kammaṁ pacceti no maṅgalaṁ;\nna ito bahiddhā dakkhiṇeyyaṁ gavesati;\nidha ca pubbakāraṁ karoti.\nImehi kho, bhikkhave, pañcahi dhammehi samannāgato upāsako upāsakaratanañca hoti upāsakapadumañca upāsakapuṇḍarīkañcā”ti.\nPañcamaṁ.","en":"A lay follower with five qualities is a gem, a pink lotus, and a white lotus among lay followers.\nWhat five?\nThey’re faithful.\nThey’re ethical.\nThey don’t practice boisterous, superstitious rites, and believe in deeds rather than omens.\nThey don’t seek outside of the Buddhist community for those worthy of religious donations.\nAnd they don’t make offerings there first.\nA lay follower with these five qualities is a gem, a pink lotus, and a white lotus among lay followers.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an5.175/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."}