The Buddha comes to the Eastern Bamboo Park, where Anuruddha and two other monastics, Nandiya and Kimbila, are living; the park keeper at first bars the Buddha from entering, but Anuruddha recognizes the Buddha and comes forward to welcome him. The three tell the Buddha that they treat one another with loving-kindness in body, speech and mind, so that though their bodies are different their minds are as one; whoever returns first from the alms round prepares the seats and fetches water, whoever returns last clears away, and every five days they spend the whole night together discussing the Dhamma. The Buddha praises their harmonious living. Taishō Canon
Pali Canon
More sources (1)
Different Accounts
Place: the Southern tradition has the Eastern Bamboo Park; the Chinese Madhyama Āgama has the Bannamanshesi grove; the Chinese Ekottarika Āgama has the Vajjian country; Majjhima Nikāya 31 of the Southern tradition also records the three living in the Gosiṅga sāla grove. Taishō Canon
More differences between accounts (2)
Order: in the Pali Vinaya the order is Bhagu's village, the Eastern Bamboo Park, the Pārileyyaka forest; the Chinese Madhyama Āgama records the elephant attending the Buddha first and the three monks afterwards.
Majjhima Nikāya 128 of the Southern tradition further records the Buddha asking the three about their attainments in practice and describing the obstacles he himself met in meditation before the Awakening; the Chinese Ekottarika Āgama further records the Buddha later praising the virtues of the three to a yakkha general.
Dating
Year 10 after the Awakening, the Buddha aged forty-four, before the ; inferred from the sequence of events, after leaving Kosambī and before the tenth retreat; the year is uncertain.
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Research Notes: Reliability, Dating and Sources
- How Reliability Is Assessed
Recorded in the sutras and Vinayas of two schools. Recorded by two schools.
- Dating Evidence and Precision
Inferred from the sequence of events (neither the canonical texts nor the commentaries give the time; the year is worked out from the order of this event and those around it). Time precision: year uncertain.
Sources
- Pali Canon巴利律 Kd 10:4.2.1–4.6.1
- Pali Canon巴利 MN 128:8.1–32.6
- 大正藏大正藏 T01 no.26 p.536a–539b
- 大正藏大正藏 T02 no.125 p.629a
- 巴利註解書巴利註釋 Dhp-a，§5
- 巴利註解書巴利註釋 MN-a，§236
- 巴利註解書巴利註釋 Ud-a，§35
- 巴利註解書巴利註釋 SN-a，§81
- Pali Canon巴利 MN 128Entire text
- 大正藏大正藏 T02 no.125 p.629a–c