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Lesson 2.1.10 Dutiyasāmaññasuttaṃ – The Purpose of Being a Sāmañña
Focusing on the purpose of recluseship, the brief Dutiyasāmaññasutta helps the meditator and Pali student to commit essential concepts to memory. The Introduction provides an overview of the noble mission of King Asoka who made it his duty, after the purity of the Saṅgha had been re-established, to send fourteen dhammadūtā to the neighbouring regions under the foresight and supervision of Thera Moggaliputta. It was then in Laṅka that a Fourth Council was held in Tambapaṇṇi, at which the entire Tipitaka was written down on palm leaves so the Dhamma could be maintained for the future.