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an.7.85 Aṅguttara Nikāya (Numbered Discourses)

A Mendicant

“Mendicants, it’s because of breaking seven things that you become a mendicant.
What seven?
Identity view, doubt, misapprehension of precepts and observances, greed, hate, delusion, and conceit.
It’s because of breaking these seven things that you become a mendicant.”