Query to anyone who knows the suttas well: The Sigalovada says the highest duty of layman is to support "ascetics and brahmins." Anomalous?
Isn't it odd for a Buddhist text to recommend supporting brahmins, rather than monks? Or is "ascetics" actually "bhikkhus"?
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It's interesting that many of the summaries I read on the web do replace "ascetics and brahmins" with "monks" (inaccurately, I take it?).
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Based on this and other inconsistencies, I suspect the Sigalovada is a brahmanical text, lightly edited, and slipped into the suttapitaka.
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@Meaningness dhammapada has a whole section defining a true Brahmin so mb it's in that context -
@jakuman Thanks! I will check that out!
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