Dear Branko,
Many thanks for your prompt and clear quotation you gave me.
Grateful if you could help me with two more which I had difficulty
locating.

1) In the mahaparinibbana sutte(digha nikaya sutta 16) The Buddha
advised the monks: "Whatever the dhamma-vinaya i have pointed out
and formulated for yoy, that will be your teacher when i am gone"
and

2)Again, in Digha nikaya sutta 16, the Buddha said: "Monks, be a
lamp unto yourselves, be a refuge unto yourselves, with no other
refuge. Take the dhamma as your lamp, take the dhamma as your
refuge, with no other refuge."

with metta
Alex



--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Branislav Kovacevic <ja_sam_branko@...>
wrote:

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> Dear Alex,
>
> I believe your quotation is from very short suttas 140-149, i.e.

Chapter 12 (Adhamma vaggo) of the first book (Ekaka Nipato) of the
Anguttara Nikaya.

>
> Metta,
> Branko
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> duriank24 <duriank24@...> wrote:
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> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 8:27 AM, <feedback@...> wrote:
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> Dear Bros in the sublime dhamma,
> Please help me to check which verse or chapter in Anguttara

Nikaya

> is the following saying found?
>
> In the anguttara nikaya, the Buddha said if a person says what is

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> are¡± dhamma . What is contrary to the dhamma .If a person says

what

> is are dhamma is dhamma, then he create much re-merit for himself
> and then he harm a lots of humans and devas and he causes the
> disappearance of the true dhamma. But if a person said what is

are

> dhamma is are dhamma and dare to criticize what is not dhamma as

not

> dhamma. Then he create much merit for himself and then he

benefits a

> lot of human and devas and he preserves the true dhamma. So

because

> of that it is the duty of monks who know to speak out what is not
> dhamma and criticize them as not dhamma and to establish the true
> dhamma. See anguttara nikaya text below. Someone told me it is in

an

> 1.10 and 1.11. I could not find it. Perhaps I am new to the

nikayas.

>
> Could someone point me to the right verse or passage?
>
> with metta,
> Alex
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