With Bākkula

Bākkula Sutta

Majjhima Nikāya 124 of 152

Translated by: Bhikkhu Sujato
Read by: Roland Kitchen

Description

Venerable Bakkula, regarded as the healthiest of the mendicants, explains to an old friend his strict and austere practice. The unusual form of this discourse suggests it was added to the canon some time after the Buddha’s death.