{"id":"sn55.11","title":"A Saṅgha of a Thousand Nuns","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn55.11","title":"A Saṅgha of a Thousand Nuns","units":[{"id":"sn55.11:0","sourceIds":["sn55.11:0.1","sn55.11:0.2","sn55.11:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 55.11\n2. Rājakārāmavagga\nSahassabhikkhunisaṅghasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 55.11\n2. The Royal Monastery\nA Saṅgha of a Thousand Nuns"}},{"id":"sn55.11:1","sourceIds":["sn55.11:1.1","sn55.11:1.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā sāvatthiyaṁ viharati rājakārāme.\nAtha kho sahassabhikkhunisaṅgho yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ aṭṭhāsi. Ekamantaṁ ṭhitā kho tā bhikkhuniyo bhagavā etadavoca:","en":"At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in the Royal Monastery.\nThen a Saṅgha of a thousand nuns went up to the Buddha, bowed, and stood to one side. The Buddha said to them:"}},{"id":"sn55.11:2","sourceIds":["sn55.11:2.1","sn55.11:2.2","sn55.11:2.3","sn55.11:2.4","sn55.11:2.5","sn55.11:2.6","sn55.11:2.7","sn55.11:2.8","sn55.11:2.9"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Catūhi kho, bhikkhuniyo, dhammehi samannāgato ariyasāvako sotāpanno hoti avinipātadhammo niyato sambodhiparāyaṇo.\nKatamehi catūhi?\nIdha, bhikkhuniyo, ariyasāvako buddhe aveccappasādena samannāgato hoti—\nitipi so bhagavā …pe… satthā devamanussānaṁ buddho bhagavāti.\nDhamme …pe…\nsaṅghe …pe…\nariyakantehi sīlehi samannāgato hoti, akhaṇḍehi …pe… samādhisaṁvattanikehi.\nImehi kho, bhikkhuniyo, catūhi dhammehi samannāgato ariyasāvako sotāpanno hoti avinipātadhammo niyato sambodhiparāyaṇo”ti.\nPaṭhamaṁ.","en":"“Nuns, a noble disciple who has four things is a stream-enterer, not liable to be reborn in the underworld, assured, destined for awakening.\nWhat four?\nIt’s when a noble disciple has experiential confidence in the Buddha …\nthe teaching …\nthe Saṅgha …\nAnd they have the ethical conduct loved by the noble ones … leading to immersion.\nA noble disciple who has these four things is a stream-enterer, not liable to be reborn in the underworld, assured, destined for awakening.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn55.11/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."}