{"id":"sn22.113","title":"Ignorance","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn22.113","title":"Ignorance","units":[{"id":"sn22.113:0","sourceIds":["sn22.113:0.1","sn22.113:0.2","sn22.113:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 22.113\n12. Dhammakathikavagga\nAvijjāsutta","en":"Linked Discourses 22.113\n12. A Dhamma speaker\nIgnorance"}},{"id":"sn22.113:1","sourceIds":["sn22.113:1.1","sn22.113:1.2","sn22.113:1.3","sn22.113:1.4","sn22.113:1.5","sn22.113:1.6","sn22.113:1.7","sn22.113:1.8","sn22.113:1.9","sn22.113:1.10","sn22.113:1.11","sn22.113:1.12","sn22.113:1.13","sn22.113:1.14"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\nAtha kho aññataro bhikkhu yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami …pe…\nekamantaṁ nisinno kho so bhikkhu bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“‘avijjā, avijjā’ti, bhante, vuccati.\nKatamā nu kho, bhante, avijjā;\nkittāvatā ca avijjāgato hotī”ti?\n“Idha, bhikkhu, assutavā puthujjano rūpaṁ nappajānāti, rūpasamudayaṁ nappajānāti, rūpanirodhaṁ nappajānāti, rūpanirodhagāminiṁ paṭipadaṁ nappajānāti;\nvedanaṁ nappajānāti …\nsaññaṁ …\nsaṅkhāre nappajānāti …pe…\nviññāṇanirodhagāminiṁ paṭipadaṁ nappajānāti.\nAyaṁ vuccati, bhikkhu, avijjā;\nettāvatā ca avijjāgato hotī”ti.\nPaṭhamaṁ.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\nThen a mendicant went up to the Buddha\nand said to him:\n“Sir, they speak of this thing called ‘ignorance’.\nWhat is ignorance?\nAnd how is an ignoramus defined?”\n“Mendicant, it’s when an unlearned ordinary person doesn’t understand form, its origin, its cessation, and the practice that leads to its cessation.\nThey don’t understand feeling …\nperception …\nchoices …\nconsciousness, its origin, its cessation, and the practice that leads to its cessation.\nThis is called ignorance.\nAnd this is how an ignoramus is defined.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn22.113/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."}