Talk:Sundari (disambiguation)

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What about Nanda (Buddhist nun)? Are they two different people? see also Nanda.

Austerlitz -- 88.75.90.34 (talk) 17:59, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

and here [1] "there seems to have been some confusion in the legends of the different Therīs named Nandā."

Austerlitz -- 88.75.90.34 (talk) 18:44, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You have a very good point here. I propose we merge the two articles since they are clearly the same person. --Dakinijones (talk) 15:30, 28 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Her text[edit]

Until now I have not found a direct link to that text: "Before long Nanda attained Arahanthship and expressed her struggle for attainment and the bliss of Nibbana as follows:

   "Nanda, behold this body,
   Ailing, impure and putrid,
   Develop the meditation on the foul,
   Make the mind unified, well composed.
   As is this so was that,
   As is that so this will be (doctrine of cause and effect),
   Putrid, exhaling a foul odour,
   A thing in which fools delight.
   Inspecting it as it is,
   Unwearying by day and night,
   With my own wisdom I pierced right through,
   And then I saw for myself.
   As I dwelt ever heedful,
   Dissecting it (the body) with methodical thought,
   I saw this body as it really is,
   Both inside and outside.
   Then I became disenchanted with the body,
   My inward attachment faded away,
   Being diligent and detached at heart,
   I live in peace, fully quenched."
   -- (Therigatha 82-86)"

(taken from the text of Radhika Abeysekera)

Austerlitz -- 88.72.13.10 (talk) 10:24, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Here it is, online, two direct links, two translations:

Nanda Nanda's Vision Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

Nanda Nanda's Vision Translated from the Pali by Hellmuth Hecker & Sister Khema

Austerlitz -- 88.72.13.10 (talk) 12:52, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]