The Simile of the Lump of Foam
In an excerpt from Reading the Buddha’s Discourses in Pali, Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi offers literal translations as well as interpretations of original sutta text from a teaching on the Five Aggregates.
Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi
Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi lives and teaches at Chuang Yen Monastery in Carmel, New York. He is a translator of texts from the Pali canon and the cofounder of Buddhist Global Relief.
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