Deity Sunperson

A deity engages the Buddha in verse on there’s nothing like a child, exploring a teaching on suffering, liberation, and the law of kamma.

A deity engages the Buddha in verse on lamps, exploring a teaching on suffering, liberation, and the law of kamma.

The young deity Maghada asks how many lamps light up the world; the Buddha answers that sun, moon, fire, and a Buddha are the four—there is no fifth.

When the Sun God is seized by Rāhu, lord of titans, he recollects the Buddha and pleads for refuge; the Teacher then commands Rāhu to release him in verse, declaring the Buddhas' compassion for the world.

The Buddha praises Venerable Mahākappina before the mendicants as mighty and accomplished in every attainment, having realized the supreme end of the spiritual path in this very life.

The Buddha presents a repeated teaching on the noble eightfold path regarding the moon, etc. in this grouped discourse.

The Buddha teaches the four noble truths regarding darkness, urging mendicants to practice for direct knowledge of suffering, its origin, its cessation, and the path.

The Buddha teaches on autumn, presenting a threefold teaching for disciples on the path.

The Buddha describes the four things—the firmament and the earth. ..., the near and the far shore of the ocean. ..., and where the sun rises and where it sets. ....

The Buddha teaches on corruptions, presenting a fourfold teaching for disciples on the path.

The Buddha teaches on unprincipled, presenting a fourfold teaching for disciples on the path.

The Buddha teaches on incredible things about the realized one (1st), presenting a fourfold teaching for disciples on the path.

The Buddha teaches on piṅgiyānī, presenting a fivefold teaching for disciples on the path.

The Buddha teaches that a mendicant accomplished in the six higher knowledges—psychic powers, clairaudience, mind reading, recollection of past lives, clairvoyance, and the ending of defilements—is worthy of offerings and the supreme field of merit.

The Buddha teaches on sleep, presenting a sixfold teaching for disciples on the path.

The Buddha teaches on immersion, presenting a sixfold teaching for disciples on the path.

The Buddha teaches on about araka, presenting a sevenfold teaching for disciples on the path.

The Buddha teaches that a mendicant with ten qualities is worthy of offerings dedicated to the gods, hospitality, religious donation, and veneration as the supreme field of merit.

The Buddha describes the ten kinds of unskillful and skillful deeds and how they lead to bad or good destinations.