{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an10.39/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an10.39","id":"suttacentral_an10.39","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an10.39/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"Then Venerable \u0100nanda went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him: \u201cSir, they speak of \u2018schism in the Sa\u1e45gha\u2019. How is schism in the Sa\u1e45gha defined?\u201d \u201c\u0100nanda, it\u2019s when a mendicant explains what is not the teaching as the teaching \u2026 and what was prescribed by the Realized One as not prescribed by the Realized One. On these ten grounds they split off and go their own way. They perform legal acts autonomously and recite the monastic code autonomously. That is how schism in the Sa\u1e45gha is defined.\u201d \u201cBut sir, what does someone who has split a harmonious Sa\u1e45gha brim with?\u201d \u201cThey brim with sin that lasts for an eon.\u201d \u201cBut sir, what is the sin that lasts for an eon?\u201d \u201cThey burn in hell for an eon, \u0100nanda. A schismatic remains for the eon in a place of loss, in hell. Taking a stand against the teaching, favoring factions, they ruin their sanctuary. After causing schism in a harmonious Sa\u1e45gha, they burn in hell for an eon.\u201d","title":"With \u0100nanda (1st)","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":175}