孤独を好む仏陀を軽んじていた懐疑的な苦行者の指導者が、不意を突かれて仏陀を招き入れ、自己苦行の長所と短所、そして仏陀の教えの真の目的についての議論を聞き、信者にはならないまま賞賛の意を表するという、遊行者の園で説かれた経。

A discourse taught at a wanderers’ park in which a skeptical ascetic leader who had disparaged the Buddha’s fondness for solitude invites him in after being caught off guard, hears him discuss the merits and flaws of self-mortification and the true purpose of his teaching, and expresses admiration without becoming a follower.