Dear Group,
Another interesting sutta on Danger to Dhamma
Anguttara NikayaN, PTS Volume 3, Chapter 8, paragraph viii (88)
A.iii.90
The Elder
Monks, possessed of five qualities, the way of an
elder monk is not to the advantage of many folk, is
not for the happiness of many folk, is not for the
good of many folk; it is to the harm and ill of devas
and men. Of what five?
There is the elder, time-honoured and long gone forth;
well-known, renowned, with a great following of
householders and those gone forth; a receiver of the
requisites; the robes, alms, lodgings and medicaments
for sickness; who is learned, has a retentive and
well-stored mind, and those Dhammas, lovely in the
beginning...are by him fully understood in theory; but
he is a wrong viewer with perverted vision. He turns
away many folk from Saddhamma and sets them in what is
not Saddhamma. Thus though he be an elder,
time-honoured and long gone forth, through him they
fall into the way of wrong views; though the elder be
well-known, renowned, with a great following of
householders and those gone forth, through him they
fall into the way of wrong views; though the elder be
a receiver of the requisites...through him they fall
into the way of wrong views; though the elder be
learned and has a retentive and well-stored mind,
through him they fall into the way of wrong views.