The Preeminence of Dharma Among the Buddhist Refuges or Jewels

Many of us will be familiar with the three refuges or three jewels of Buddha, dharma, and sangha. But how do they interrelate? We will look at a number of early suttas that indicate the Buddha's approach to them, and that suggest the primacy of dharma among them.

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✅ Secondary literature:
Piya Tan on the Aggañña Sutta: http://www.themindingcentre.org/dharm...

Piya Tan on the Gārava Sutta: http://www.themindingcentre.org/dharm...

Richard Gombrich, “The Buddha’s Book of Genesis?" Indo-Iranian Journal 35, no. 2/3 (1992): 159-78. Accessed June 17, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/24659523.

Chanida Jantrasrisalai PhD thesis (first pages only) https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitst...

✅ Suttas mentioned:
https://suttacentral.net/dn16/en/sujato
https://suttacentral.net/dhp273-289/e...
https://suttacentral.net/iti92/en/ire...
https://suttacentral.net/sn22.87/en/b...
https://suttacentral.net/dn27/en/sujato
https://suttacentral.net/mn44/en/sujato
https://suttacentral.net/mn22/en/sujato
https://suttacentral.net/sn6.2/en/sujato
https://suttacentral.net/an4.21/en/su...

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