{"id":"an4.9","title":"The Arising of Craving","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an4.9","title":"The Arising of Craving","units":[{"id":"an4.9:0","sourceIds":["an4.9:0.1","an4.9:0.2","an4.9:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.9\n1. Bhaṇḍagāmavagga\nTaṇhuppādasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 4.9\n1. At Wares Village\nThe Arising of Craving"}},{"id":"an4.9:1","sourceIds":["an4.9:1.1","an4.9:1.2","an4.9:1.3","an4.9:1.4","an4.9:1.5","an4.9:1.6","an4.9:1.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Cattārome, bhikkhave, taṇhuppādā yattha bhikkhuno taṇhā uppajjamānā uppajjati.\nKatame cattāro?\nCīvarahetu vā, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno taṇhā uppajjamānā uppajjati;\npiṇḍapātahetu vā, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno taṇhā uppajjamānā uppajjati;\nsenāsanahetu vā, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno taṇhā uppajjamānā uppajjati;\nitibhavābhavahetu vā, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno taṇhā uppajjamānā uppajjati.\nIme kho, bhikkhave, cattāro taṇhuppādā yattha bhikkhuno taṇhā uppajjamānā uppajjatīti.","en":"“Mendicants, there are four things that give rise to craving in a mendicant.\nWhat four?\nFor the sake of robes,\nalmsfood,\nlodgings,\nor rebirth in this or that state.\nThese are the four things that give rise to craving in a mendicant."}},{"id":"an4.9:2","sourceIds":["an4.9:2.1","an4.9:2.2","an4.9:2.3","an4.9:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Taṇhā dutiyo puriso,\ndīghamaddhāna saṁsaraṁ;\nItthabhāvaññathābhāvaṁ,\nsaṁsāraṁ nātivattati.","en":"Craving is a person’s partner\nas they transmigrate on this long journey.\nThey go from this state to another,\nbut don’t escape transmigration."}},{"id":"an4.9:3","sourceIds":["an4.9:3.1","an4.9:3.2","an4.9:3.3","an4.9:3.4","an4.9:3.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evamādīnavaṁ ñatvā,\nTaṇhaṁ dukkhassa sambhavaṁ;\nVītataṇho anādāno,\nSato bhikkhu paribbaje”ti.\nNavamaṁ.","en":"Knowing this drawback—\nthat craving is the cause of suffering—\nrid of craving, free of grasping,\na mendicant would wander mindful.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.9/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."}