The art of Dana (5)

Velama Sutta (AN 9:20)  It would be more fruitful to feed the mendicant Saṅgha headed by the Buddha than to feed one Realized One, a perfected one, a fully awakened Buddha. https://suttacentral.net/an9.20/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none&notes=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin The above verse hinges on “mendicant Sangha”. It refers to a religious community that was established […]