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[Sumana]

Yes, Bhante. I would be honoured. Wow!

[sujato]

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3. For a small fix like this, you can edit the file directly on Github in your browser.

Normally we don’t correct the legacy texts, but in this case we should, because the mistake is the opposite of the intended meaning (rather than just a random typo), and the correct text is in the published version.

[Sumana]

Thank you so much for the instructions, Bhante. I will sign up for Github account now.

[LQM]

Thank you for helping us, Bhante Sujato and Miss Sumana. My deepest gratitude to you all.

[WayChuang]

There is a typo in the blurb for SN 47.10

When Ānanda visits the nuns’s quarters they tell him that their meditation is prospering to higher and higher levels. Ānanda reporrts the good news to the Buddha, who speaks of two ways of developing the four kinds of mindfulness meditation: directed and undirected.

[Larry]

At SuttaCentral , the text reads: “these four blessing accrue”. I checked a printed copy of Bhante Buddharakkhita’s trans. (Pocket BPS edition, 2007), p. 49, and it makes “blessing” plural: “blessings,” which, of course, is grammatically correct. I also see that the source page on Access to Insight, at Sahassavagga: The Thousands , contains this same error, so you correctly copied their error. (In the old days, I’d’ve mention this to John Bullitt, but with BCBS’s generous stewardship of ATI, I don’t see a mechanism for reporting such.) I realize the priority for this is in the negative numbers. Just thought I’d mention it. Thanks for all you do

[Astus]

Note at SN 22.15:1.5 points to itself.

[WayChuang]

hehe, that was posted in another thread yesterday

[sujato]

@Astus

Note at SN 22.15:1.5 points to itself.

Thanks, I’ve fixed this now.

@Larry

these four blessing accrue

I’ve fixed it, and thanks for checking the source for us.

@WayChuang

reporrts

Fixed.

[rhino]

In the SuttaCentral Dictionary results showing the definitions for “soṇa”, there is a typo. It’s within the second paragraph of entry 1 of the Dictionary of Pali Proper Names. It reads, “Soṇa asked for the relaxation of sive points of Vinaya for those living in border regions”. I think it should be “five points” not “sive points”.

Also, further down the page, and within entry 4 of Dictionary of Pali Proper Names for “soṇa”, there is an unnecessary full stop within the phrase “with the. Buddha”. The extra full stop is there after the word “the”.

[WayChuang]

This is trivial. SN 25.9 covers six elements including the consciousness element, whereas its blurb only mentions four physical elements.

One with faith in the teachings on the four physical elements is called a “follower by faith”…

Same goes to SN 26.9

[WayChuang]

A typo in the blurb for SN 24.36

The view that a realized one neither still exists nor no longer exists after death arises from grasping to the five aggregates, which are suffering. But by seeing the aggregates as impermanent, this views is given up.

view instead of views.

[WayChuang]

There is a mistake in the blurb for SN 52.5

Sāriputta and Moggallāna ask Anuruddha what an adept mendicant should practice. He replies that it is the four kinds of mindfulness meditation.

Mogallana is absent in this sutta.

Ayya @sabbamitta, German translation has the same issue.

[WayChuang]

The blurb for SN 48.34 doesn’t describe the sutta correctly, probably a copy-and-paste

A true ascetic understands the five faculties of pleasure, pain, happiness, sadness, and equanimity in terms of the four noble truths.

While that’s true for the next sutta, this sutta discusses the faculties in terms of their origin, disappearance, gratification, drawback, and escape.

[Astus]

The note at SN 22.15:1.5 still refers to itself.