{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_snp5.18/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_snp5.18","id":"suttacentral_snp5.18","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/snp5.18/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"This was said by the Buddha while staying in the land of the Magadhans at the P\u0101s\u0101\u1e47aka Shrine. When requested by the sixteen brahmin devotees, he answered their questions one by one. If you understand the meaning and the teaching of each of these questions, and practice in line with the teaching, you may go right to the far shore of old age and death. These teachings are said to lead to the far shore, which is why the name of this exposition of the teaching is \u201cThe Way to the Far Shore\u201d. Ajita, Tissametteyya, Pu\u1e47\u1e47aka and Mettag\u016b, Dhotaka and Upasiva, Nanda and then Hemaka, both Todeyya and Kappa, and Jatuka\u1e47\u1e47\u012b the astute, Bhadr\u0101vudha and Udaya, and the brahmin Pos\u0101la, Moghar\u0101ja the intelligent, and Pi\u1e45giya the great seer: they approached the Buddha, the seer of consummate conduct. Asking their subtle questions, they came to the most excellent Buddha. The Buddha answered their questions in accordance with truth. The sage satisfied the brahmins with his answers to their questions. Those who were satisfied by the Clear-eyed One, the Buddha, Kinsman of the Sun, led the spiritual life in his presence, the one of such outstanding wisdom. If you practice in accordance with each of these questions as taught by the Buddha, you\u2019ll go from the near shore to the far. Developing the supreme path, you\u2019ll go from the near shore to the far. This path is for going to the far shore; that\u2019s why it\u2019s called \u201cThe Way to the Far Shore\u201d.","title":"Homage to the Way to the Far Shore","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":251}