Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, Dhammacakkappavattanasutta: 3 definitions
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Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesName of the first sermon, preached by the Buddha, to the Pancavaggiyas at the Migadaya in Isipatana, on the full moon day of Asalha. The sutta contains the fundamental principles of the Buddhas teaching - the avoidance of the two extremes of asceticism and luxury and the four Ariyan truths including the Ariyan Eightfold Way.
There was great rejoicing throughout the Cakkavala at the preaching of the sermon, and at its conclusion Kondanna attained to realisation of the Truth - hence his name, Anna Kondanna. Vin.i.10f; the sutta is also given in S.v.420ff; in neither context is the name of the sutta given as such; the name occurs only in the Commentaries - e.g., J.i.82; DA.i.2; AA.i.69, etc; the Sanskrit version is found in Lal.540 (416)f., and in Mtu.iii.330f.
The sermon was later preached by the Thera Majjhima in the Himalaya country, when eighty thousand crores of beings understood the Doctrine (Mhv.xii.41; Dpv.viii.11).
It was also preached by Mahinda in Ceylon in the Nandanavana, when one thousand persons were converted. Mhv.xv.200; Dpv.xiv.46, etc.
Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
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[Pali to Burmese]
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(Burmese text): ဓမ္မစက္ကပ္ပဝတ္တနသုတ်၊ ကိုယ်တော်မြတ်သန္တာန်၌ဖြစ်သေ� ဒေသနာဉာဏ�,ပဋိဝေဓဉာဏ်တော်ဖြင့� ဝေနေယျတို့၏ သန္တာန်၌ သဒ္ဓိန္ဒြ�,သတိပဋ္ဌာန�,သမ္မာဒိဋ္ဌိစသေ� တရားတို့ကိ� ဖြစ်စေလည်စေတော်မူရာသုတ်၊ ကိုယ်တော်မြတ်သန္တာန်၌ဖြစ်သေ� ပဋိဝေဓဉာဏ�,ဒေသနာတော်တို့ဖြင့� ဝေနေယျတို့၏ သန္တာန်၌ သဒ္ဓိန္ဒြ�,သတိပဋ္ဌာန�,သမ္မာဒိဋ္ဌိစသေ� တရားမျာ� ဖြစ်ပေါ်လာအောင်ဟောပြရာသုတ်။
(Auto-Translation): The Dhammacakka, blessed with the wisdom of enlightenment, is where the true and pure Dharma manifests within the minds of beings. With the wisdom of enlightenment and the teaching of the Blessed One, may the teachings of awareness, mindfulness, and true knowledge arise within the minds of beings.
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
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Partial matches: Dhammacakkappavattana, Sutta.
Full-text: Dhammasamgahaka, Dahara Sutta, Majjhima, Nandanavana, Vappa, Anicca, Isipatana, Mahinda, Sacca, Annata Kondanna, Mahanama, Assaji.
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Guide to Tipitaka (by U Ko Lay)
Book 3 - Mahavagga Pali < [Chapter II - Vinaya Pitaka]
(e) Maha Vagga Samyutta Pali < [Chapter VI - Samyutta Nikaya]
The Four Noble Truths (by Ajahn Sumedho)
Part 1 - The Truth Of Impermanence < [Chapter 3 - The Third Noble Truth]
The Dawn of the Dhamma (by Sucitto Bhikkhu)
Chapter 1 - The Great Wheel Of The Law < [The Sutta]
Dhammapada (Illustrated) (by Ven. Weagoda Sarada Maha Thero)
Verse 353 - The Story of Upaka < [Chapter 24 - Taṇhā Vagga (Craving)]
Verse 108 - The Story of Venerable Sāriputta’s Friend < [Chapter 8 - Sahassa Vagga (Thousands)]
Yoga-sutras (Ancient and Modern Interpretations) (by Makarand Gopal Newalkar)
Bhesajjakkhandhaka (Chapter on Medicine) (by Hin-tak Sik)
Introduction (traditional medicine) < [Chapter 1 - Introduction]
Concepts of Health and Disease (In early Buddhism) < [Chapter 3 - Concepts of Health and Disease]