Lohicca Sutta

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{{Short description|12th Sutta in the Digha Nikaya, Pāli Canon}}

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The Lohicca Sutta is the 12th Buddhist discourse{{Cite web|title = 12. Lohicca - English|url = http://metta.lk/tipitaka/2Sutta-Pitaka/1Digha-Nikaya/Digha1/12-lohicca-e.html|website = metta.lk|accessdate = 2015-12-12}}{{Cite web|title = Digha Nikaya: The Long Discourses|url = http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/dn/index.html|website = www.accesstoinsight.org|accessdate = 2015-12-06}} of the Digha Nikaya, one of the collections in Sutta Pitaka of Pāli Canon.

Content

The Sutta is a dialogue between a brahmin named Lohicca and Lord Buddha about the ethics of teaching.{{cite book|last1=Webb|first1=Russell|last2=Nyanatusita|first2=Bhikkhu|title=An Analysis of the Pali Canon and a Reference Table of Pali Literature|publisher=Buddhist Publication Society|year=2011|page=4|ISBN=}}

Name of Lohicca

The name of Lohicca only twice appears in early Pali texts: the (Sálávatiká) Lohicca Sutta (DN 12) and the (Makkarakaṭa) Lohicca Sutta (S 35.132).{{Cite web|title=(Sāla,vatikā) Lohicca Sutta |url=http://dharmafarer.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/34.8-Salavatika-Lohicca-S-d12-piya.pdf |website=dharmafarer.org |access-date=2015-12-30 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160328103048/http://dharmafarer.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/34.8-Salavatika-Lohicca-S-d12-piya.pdf |archivedate=2016-03-28 }}

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