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  • A discourse taught by Anuruddha Thera to the royal carpenter Pañcakaṅga at Sāvatthi, explaining the boundless and vast emancipations of mind, whose cultivation leads to rebirth among the Brilliant Gods.

MN 127
  • A discourse recording the deity Jālinī’s unsuccessful visit to tempt Anuruddha Thera with the pleasures of heaven.

  • A discourse in which the Buddha explains to Anuruddha why beings are born as women.

AN 3.130
  • Two discourses telling how Sāriputta admonished Anuruddha to abandon boasting about his attainments and focus instead on the deathless element, advice that led Anuruddha to Arahantship.

AN 3.130
  • A discourse in which the Buddha personally visits Anuruddha to teach him the eighth of the eight thoughts of a great man, completing his path to Arahantship.

AN 8.30
  • A discourse in which the Buddha explains to Anuruddha how women may be reborn among the Manāpakāyika devas.

AN 8.46

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