Upāsakavagga

Collections of Numbered Discourses

Collections of 'numbered' or 'numerical' discourses and other related texts.

Sārajjasutta

AN 5.171
Timidity

Confidence or lack thereof in layfolk is due to their precepts.

Visāradasutta

AN 5.172
Assured

Confidence or lack thereof in layfolk is due to their precepts.

Nirayasutta

AN 5.173
Hell

Reasons one is cast down to hell or raised to heaven.

Verasutta

AN 5.174
Threats

Breaking of precepts is a threat and a danger.

Caṇḍālasutta

AN 5.175
Corpse-worker

An outcaste is not born, but they make themselves an outcaste by their behavior.

Pītisutta

AN 5.176
Rapture

The Buddha encourages Anāthapiṇḍika to not rest short with generosity, but to practice meditation too.

Vaṇijjāsutta

AN 5.177
Trades

Five kinds of trade that are wrong livelihood.

Rājāsutta

AN 5.178
Kings

Kings do not punish people for keeping precepts.

Gihisutta

AN 5.179
A Layperson

Qualities possessing which a lay person may claim to be a stream-enterer.

Gavesīsutta

AN 5.180
About Gavesī

The Buddha tells of the layman Gavesī in the time of Buddha Kassapa, and how he went forth with all his followers.