Re: Ven. Sariputta version

From: Dimitry Ivakhnenko (Дмитрий Ивахненко)
Message: 374
Date: 2001-08-18

Hi, Pali people,

Maybe some knowledgeable person will kindly tell us who was the
'organizer' of Sutta Nipata, according to tradition and commentaries,
and where one can read about it?

Derek Cameron wrote:
DC> But the picture I have in my mind -- and this is only a possibility,
DC> I cannot here muster arguments in support of it -- is that there were
DC> some monks who remembered the early teachings quite separately from
DC> the "mainstreamers" who put together the Nikaaya-s. Monks like our
DC> friend Kondañña who had some brief contact with the Buddha early on,
DC> and then went their own way, never becoming involved in the communal
DC> life of the "Sangha" as "assembly."

Dimitry

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