Query to anyone who knows the suttas well: The Sigalovada says the highest duty of layman is to support "ascetics and brahmins." Anomalous?
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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But I don't read Pali and I don't know the suttas at all well, so maybe this suspicion is obviously wrong?
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The Sigalovada Sutta is a key text for "Buddhist ethics," so if it's actually brahmanical, some rethinking might be called for.
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@Meaningness samaṇabrāhmaṇā is found throughout Canon. In all kinds of contexts. -
@Jayarava thanks!
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