{"id":"sn35.83","title":"Phagguna’s Question","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn35.83","title":"Phagguna’s Question","units":[{"id":"sn35.83:0","sourceIds":["sn35.83:0.1","sn35.83:0.2","sn35.83:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 35.83\n8. Gilānavagga\nPhaggunapañhāsutta","en":"Linked Discourses 35.83\n8. Sick\nPhagguna’s Question"}},{"id":"sn35.83:1","sourceIds":["sn35.83:1.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho āyasmā phagguno …pe… ekamantaṁ nisinno kho āyasmā phagguno bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:","en":"And then Venerable Phagguna went up to the Buddha … and said to him:"}},{"id":"sn35.83:2","sourceIds":["sn35.83:2.1","sn35.83:2.2","sn35.83:2.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Atthi nu kho, bhante, taṁ cakkhu, yena cakkhunā atīte buddhe parinibbute chinnapapañce chinnavaṭume pariyādinnavaṭṭe sabbadukkhavītivaṭṭe paññāpayamāno paññāpeyya …pe…\natthi nu kho, bhante, sā jivhā, yāya jivhāya atīte buddhe parinibbute chinnapapañce chinnavaṭume pariyādinnavaṭṭe sabbadukkhavītivaṭṭe paññāpayamāno paññāpeyya …pe…\natthi nu kho so, bhante, mano, yena manena atīte buddhe parinibbute chinnapapañce chinnavaṭume pariyādinnavaṭṭe sabbadukkhavītivaṭṭe paññāpayamāno paññāpeyyā”ti?","en":"“Sir, suppose someone were to describe the Buddhas of the past who have become fully quenched, cut off proliferation, cut off the course, finished off the cycle, and passed beyond all suffering. Does the eye exist by which they could be described?\nDoes the ear … nose … tongue … body exist …?\nDoes the mind exist by which they could be described?”"}},{"id":"sn35.83:3","sourceIds":["sn35.83:3.1","sn35.83:3.2","sn35.83:3.3","sn35.83:3.4","sn35.83:3.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Natthi kho taṁ, phagguna, cakkhu, yena cakkhunā atīte buddhe parinibbute chinnapapañce chinnavaṭume pariyādinnavaṭṭe sabbadukkhavītivaṭṭe paññāpayamāno paññāpeyya …pe…\nnatthi kho sā, phagguna, jivhā, yāya jivhāya atīte buddhe parinibbute chinnapapañce chinnavaṭume pariyādinnavaṭṭe sabbadukkhavītivaṭṭe paññāpayamāno paññāpeyya …pe…\nnatthi kho so, phagguna, mano, yena manena atīte buddhe parinibbute chinnapapañce chinnavaṭume pariyādinnavaṭṭe sabbadukkhavītivaṭṭe paññāpayamāno paññāpeyyā”ti.\nDasamaṁ.\nGilānavaggo tatiyo.","en":"“Phagguna, suppose someone were to describe the Buddhas of the past who have become fully quenched, cut off proliferation, cut off the course, finished off the cycle, and passed beyond all suffering. The eye does not exist by which they could be described.\nThe ear … nose … tongue … body does not exist ….\nThe mind does not exist by which they could be described.”"}},{"id":"sn35.83:4","sourceIds":["sn35.83:4.0","sn35.83:4.1","sn35.83:4.2","sn35.83:4.3","sn35.83:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tassuddānaṁ\nGilānena duve vuttā,\nrādhena apare tayo;\nAvijjāya ca dve vuttā,\nbhikkhu loko ca phaggunoti."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn35.83/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."}