Dear Nina and Piya,


Thanks for your replies. It seems to confirm what i suspected, that
this group is surprisingly rare in the Nikayas. The Itivuttaka
passage has a verse connecting these three with getting reborn in a
good place, which follows naturally from the fact that they
are 'pu~n~na'. The EA version, in explaining bhavana as development
of the 7 bojjhangas, implies they lead to enlightenment. But the
verses there, too, are entirely 'lokiya', encouraging the wise man
to practice these for a heavenly rebirth.

I guess this leads to a further question: does the group dana, sila,
bhavana occur elsewhere, not called 'punnakiriyavatthu'?

in Dhamma

Bhante Sujato

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Piya Tan <libris@...> wrote:
> Bhante,
>
> The 3 Pu~n~nakiriyavatthu occur at
> D 3:218
> A 4:239
> It 51
>
> The 10 Pu~n~nakiriyavatthu occur at
> DA 3:999; Compendium 146.
>
> Hope this helps in some small way.
>
> Namakkara.m
>
> Piya
>
> Bhante Sujato wrote:
>
> > Dear pali students,
> >
> > I've just been doing a little work of the three
punnakiriyavatthus,
> > the famous dana, sila, bhavana, and find myself surprised how
little
> > these occur in the suttas. I have references at AN8.36 (! in the
> > eights, not the threes), and the Sangiti Sutta. I don't think
there is
> > anywhere in the Nikayas that actually explains them - but where
in the
> > Pali tradition do we find explanations, and what are they,
especially
> > bhavana?
> >
> > I have compared with a sutta in the Chinese Ekottara, where they
are
> > indeed explained, much as one would expect: bhavana is the 7
> > bojjhangas.
> >
> > in Dhamma
> >
> > Bhante Sujato
> >
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