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Aggañña Sutta is the 27th
sutta of the
Digha Nikaya collection (Pāli version). The
sutta describes a
discourse imparted by The
Buddha to two brahmins...
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birth one is a non-Brahman; – by
moral action one is a Brahman" The
Aggañña Sutta explains all
classes or
varnas can be good or bad and
gives a sociological...
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Vedic religion List of
suktas and
stutis Nasadiya Sukta (Hymn of Creation)
Agganna Sutta — a
Buddhist critique Varna (Hinduism) and
Caste system in India...
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behind their development are
considered in some texts. For example, the
Aggañña Sutta describes the
first Kshatriya arising from a primordial, unstratified...
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agree with the
Vedic justification for this system.
According to the
Aggañña Sutta, all
social classes or
varnas arose naturally through sociological...
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Publication Society. Gethin, Rupert.
Cosmology and Meditation: From the
Aggañña-Sutta to the Mahāyāna, in "History of Religions" Vol. 36, No. 3 (Feb. 1997)...
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University Press. p. 164. ISBN 978-0-19-516947-8.
Steven Collins (2001).
Aggañña Sutta.
Sahitya Akademi. p. 17. ISBN 978-81-260-1298-5.
Maurice Walshe (2005)...
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Shakya dynasty, to
which the
historical Buddha belonged.
According to the
Agganna Sutta, he was a rice
farmer who was
elected by the
other farmers to rule...
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evidently viewed as an
ideal state from
which human beings have fallen; the
Aggañña Sutta (DN.27)
explains how
human beings,
originally sustained on various...
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should develop regret when we
waste our
human life."
According to the
Aggañña Sutta (DN.27),
humans originated at the
beginning of the
current kalpa...
