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Dīghāvu4

Person

A cross-reference to Dīghāyu, together with the Dīghāvu-Upāsaka Sutta, which records the Buddha’s visit to the layman Dīghāvu (2) and his teaching on the six factors conducive to knowledge.

See Dīghāyu.

Dīghāvu-Upāsaka Sutta.– Records the visit of the Buddha to Dīghāvu (see Dighāvu 2). The Buddha exhorts him to practise the six conditions that are the constituents of knowledge (cha vijjābhāgiyadhamme):

contemplation of impermanence in formations (saṅkhāra),

consciousness of suffering in impermanence,

of there being no self in what is suffering,

consciousness of abandoning,

of dispersion, and

of cessation. S.v.344 f.

SN 55.3

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