<p>It's from Tipitaka like ruben2020 answered.</p>
<p>The commentary teachers are the Tipitaka Memorizer, so they concluded the <a href="https://5000y.men/?rm.r.67.45.0.4." rel="nofollow noreferrer">Buddha's normal daily schedule</a> like below...</p>
<p>sīlakkhandhavagga,aṭṭhakathā 45 paṇṇe</p>
<blockquote>
<p>sātthakaṃyeva pana bhagavato kiccaṃ hoti. taṃ pañcavidhaṃ –
purebhattakiccaṃ, pacchābhattakiccaṃ, purimayāmakiccaṃ,
majjhimayāmakiccaṃ, pacchimayāmakiccanti.</p>
<p>tatridaṃ purebhattakiccaṃ –</p>
<p>bhagavā hi pātova uṭṭhāya upaṭṭhākānuggahatthaṃ sarīraphāsukatthañca
mukhadhovanādisarīraparikammaṃ katvā yāva bhikkhācāravelā tāva
vivittāsane vītināmetvā, bhikkhācāravelāyaṃ nivāsetvā kāyabandhanaṃ
bandhitvā cīvaraṃ pārupitvā pattamādāya kadāci ekako, kadāci
bhikkhusaṅghaparivuto, gāmaṃ vā nigamaṃ vā piṇḍāya pavisati; kadāci
pakatiyā, kadāci anekehi pāṭihāriyehi vattamānehi. seyyathidaṃ,
piṇḍāya pavisato lokanāthassa purato purato gantvā mudugatavātā
pathaviṃ sodhenti, valāhakā udakaphusitāni muñcantā magge reṇuṃ
vūpasametvā upari vitānaṃ hutvā tiṭṭhanti, apare vātā pupphāni
upasaṃharitvā magge okiranti, unnatā bhūmippadesā onamanti, onatā
unnamanti, pādanikkhepasamaye samāva bhūmi hoti, sukhasamphassāni
padumapupphāni vā pāde sampaṭicchanti. indakhīlassa anto ṭhapitamatte
dakkhiṇapāde sarīrato chabbaṇṇarasmiyo nikkhamitvā
suvaṇṇarasapiñjarāni viya citrapaṭaparikkhittāni viya ca
pāsādakūṭāgārādīni alaṅkarontiyo ito cito ca dhāvanti,
hatthiassavihaṅgādayo sakasakaṭṭhānesu ṭhitāyeva madhurenākārena
saddaṃ karonti, tathā bherivīṇādīni tūriyāni manussānañca kāyūpagāni
ābharaṇāni. tena saññāṇena manussā jānanti – ‘‘ajja bhagavā idha
piṇḍāya paviṭṭho’’ti. te sunivatthā supārutā gandhapupphādīni ādāya
gharā nikkhamitvā antaravīthiṃ paṭipajjitvā bhagavantaṃ
gandhapupphādīhi sakkaccaṃ pūjetvā vanditvā – ‘‘amhākaṃ, bhante, dasa
bhikkhū, amhākaṃ vīsati, paññāsaṃ…pe.… sataṃ dethā’’ti yācitvā
bhagavatopi pattaṃ gahetvā āsanaṃ paññapetvā sakkaccaṃ piṇḍapātena
paṭimānenti. bhagavā katabhattakicco tesaṃ sattānaṃ cittasantānāni
oloketvā tathā dhammaṃ deseti, yathā keci saraṇagamanesu
patiṭṭhahanti, keci pañcasu sīlesu, keci
sotāpattisakadāgāmianāgāmiphalānaṃ aññatarasmiṃ; keci pabbajitvā
aggaphale arahatteti. evaṃ mahājanaṃ anuggahetvā uṭṭhāyāsanā vihāraṃ
gacchati.</p>
<p>tattha gantvā maṇḍalamāḷe paññattavarabuddhāsane nisīdati, bhikkhūnaṃ
bhattakiccapariyosānaṃ āgamayamāno. tato bhikkhūnaṃ
bhattakiccapariyosāne upaṭṭhāko bhagavato nivedeti. atha bhagavā
gandhakuṭiṃ pavisati. idaṃ tāva purebhattakiccaṃ.</p>
<p>atha bhagavā evaṃ katapurebhattakicco gandhakuṭiyā upaṭṭhāne nisīditvā
pāde pakkhāletvā pādapīṭhe ṭhatvā bhikkhusaṅghaṃ ovadati –
‘‘bhikkhave, appamādena sampādetha, dullabho buddhuppādo lokasmiṃ,
dullabho manussattapaṭilābho, dullabhā sampatti, dullabhā pabbajjā,
dullabhaṃ saddhammassavana’’nti. tattha keci bhagavantaṃ kammaṭṭhānaṃ
pucchanti. bhagavāpi tesaṃ cariyānurūpaṃ kammaṭṭhānaṃ deti. tato
sabbepi bhagavantaṃ vanditvā attano attano rattiṭṭhānadivāṭṭhānāni
gacchanti. keci araññaṃ, keci rukkhamūlaṃ, keci pabbatādīnaṃ
aññataraṃ, keci cātumahārājikabhavanaṃ…pe.… keci vasavattibhavananti.
tato bhagavā gandhakuṭiṃ pavisitvā sace ākaṅkhati, dakkhiṇena passena
sato sampajāno muhuttaṃ sīhaseyyaṃ kappeti. atha samassāsitakāyo
vuṭṭhahitvā dutiyabhāge lokaṃ voloketi. tatiyabhāge yaṃ gāmaṃ vā
nigamaṃ vā upanissāya viharati tattha mahājano purebhattaṃ dānaṃ datvā
pacchābhattaṃ sunivattho supāruto gandhapupphādīni ādāya vihāre
sannipatati. tato bhagavā sampattaparisāya anurūpena pāṭihāriyena
gantvā dhammasabhāyaṃ paññattavarabuddhāsane nisajja dhammaṃ deseti
kālayuttaṃ samayayuttaṃ, atha kālaṃ viditvā parisaṃ uyyojeti, manussā
bhagavantaṃ vanditvā pakkamanti. idaṃ pacchābhattakiccaṃ.</p>
<p>so evaṃ niṭṭhitapacchābhattakicco sace gattāni osiñcitukāmo hoti,
buddhāsanā vuṭṭhāya nhānakoṭṭhakaṃ pavisitvā upaṭṭhākena
paṭiyāditaudakena gattāni utuṃ gaṇhāpeti. upaṭṭhākopi buddhāsanaṃ
ānetvā gandhakuṭipariveṇe paññapeti. bhagavā surattadupaṭṭaṃ nivāsetvā
kāyabandhanaṃ bandhitvā uttarāsaṅgaṃ ekaṃsaṃ karitvā tattha gantvā
nisīdati ekakova muhuttaṃ paṭisallīno, atha bhikkhū tato tato āgamma
bhagavato upaṭṭhānaṃ āgacchanti.</p>
<p>tattha ekacce pañhaṃ pucchanti, ekacce kammaṭṭhānaṃ, ekacce
dhammassavanaṃ yācanti. bhagavā tesaṃ adhippāyaṃ sampādento
purimayāmaṃ vītināmeti. idaṃ purimayāmakiccaṃ.</p>
<p>purimayāmakiccapariyosāne pana bhikkhūsu bhagavantaṃ vanditvā
pakkantesu sakaladasasahassilokadhātudevatāyo okāsaṃ labhamānā
bhagavantaṃ upasaṅkamitvā pañhaṃ pucchanti, yathābhisaṅkhataṃ antamaso
caturakkharampi. bhagavā tāsaṃ devatānaṃ pañhaṃ vissajjento
majjhimayāmaṃ vītināmeti. idaṃ majjhimayāmakiccaṃ.</p>
<p>pacchimayāmaṃ pana tayo koṭṭhāse katvā purebhattato paṭṭhāya nisajjāya
pīḷitassa sarīrassa kilāsubhāvamocanatthaṃ ekaṃ koṭṭhāsaṃ caṅkamena
vītināmeti. dutiyakoṭṭhāse gandhakuṭiṃ pavisitvā dakkhiṇena passena
sato sampajāno sīhaseyyaṃ kappeti. tatiyakoṭṭhāse paccuṭṭhāya
nisīditvā purimabuddhānaṃ santike dānasīlādivasena
katādhikārapuggaladassanatthaṃ buddhacakkhunā lokaṃ voloketi. idaṃ
pacchimayāmakiccaṃ.</p>
</blockquote>

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Yes, this recovering dumbed down American would like a translation too please, although this is not an official request, as we're all so busy. Also, what are ways to site this? Something like: Sutta Piṭaka Dīghanikāyo sīlakkhandhavagga, aṭṭhakathā 45 paṇṇe?
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Bonn
<p>We can find mentions of morning, midday or noon and afternoon in <a href="https://suttacentral.net/an3.19/en/sujato" rel="nofollow noreferrer">AN 3.19</a>.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>In the same way, a mendicant who has three factors is unable to
acquire more skillful qualities or to increase the skillful qualities
they’ve already acquired. What three? It’s when a mendicant doesn’t
carefully apply themselves to a meditation subject as a foundation of
immersion in the <strong>morning, at midday, and in the afternoon</strong>.<br />
<a href="https://suttacentral.net/an3.19/en/sujato" rel="nofollow noreferrer">AN 3.19</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p>For the three watches of the night, we can find it in <a href="https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.053.than.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MN 53</a>. The parts in square brackets are comments from the translator.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>&quot;And how is the disciple of the noble ones devoted to wakefulness?
There is the case where a disciple of the noble ones, sitting &amp; pacing
back &amp; forth, cleanses his mind of any qualities that would hold the
mind in check. During the <strong>first watch of the night</strong> [dusk to 10
p.m.], sitting &amp; pacing back &amp; forth, he cleanses his mind of any
qualities that would hold the mind in check. During the <strong>second watch
of the night</strong> [10 p.m. to 2 a.m.], reclining on his right side, he
takes up the lion's posture, one foot placed on top of the other,
mindful, alert, with his mind set on getting up [either as soon as he
awakens or at a particular time]. During the <strong>last watch of the
night</strong> [2 a.m. to dawn], sitting &amp; pacing back &amp; forth, he cleanses
his mind of any qualities that would hold the mind in check. This is
how the monk is devoted to wakefulness.<br />
<a href="https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.053.than.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MN 53</a></p>
</blockquote>

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<p>What is the (commentary) source for Buddha's five-part daily schedule, as mentioned at <a href="http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/buddhism/lifebuddha/26lbud.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">The Buddha's Daily Routine</a> (Buddhanet) and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J17nzlmPnE" rel="nofollow noreferrer">A Day in the Life of the Buddha</a> (YouTube video, Bhikkhu Bodhi).</p>

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What is the (commentary) source for Buddha's daily schedule?
# What is the (commentary) source for Buddha's daily schedule?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-07-30)

What is the (commentary) source for Buddha's five-part daily schedule, as mentioned at [The Buddha's Daily Routine](http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/buddhism/lifebuddha/26lbud.htm) (Buddhanet) and [A Day in the Life of the Buddha](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J17nzlmPnE) (YouTube video, Bhikkhu Bodhi).

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2021-07-31. Score: 4

We can find mentions of morning, midday or noon and afternoon in [AN 3.19](https://suttacentral.net/an3.19/en/sujato).

> In the same way, a mendicant who has three factors is unable to
> acquire more skillful qualities or to increase the skillful qualities
> they’ve already acquired. What three? It’s when a mendicant doesn’t
> carefully apply themselves to a meditation subject as a foundation of
> immersion in the **morning, at midday, and in the afternoon**.  
> [AN 3.19](https://suttacentral.net/an3.19/en/sujato)

For the three watches of the night, we can find it in [MN 53](https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.053.than.html). The parts in square brackets are comments from the translator.

> "And how is the disciple of the noble ones devoted to wakefulness?
> There is the case where a disciple of the noble ones, sitting & pacing
> back & forth, cleanses his mind of any qualities that would hold the
> mind in check. During the **first watch of the night** [dusk to 10
> p.m.], sitting & pacing back & forth, he cleanses his mind of any
> qualities that would hold the mind in check. During the **second watch
> of the night** [10 p.m. to 2 a.m.], reclining on his right side, he
> takes up the lion's posture, one foot placed on top of the other,
> mindful, alert, with his mind set on getting up [either as soon as he
> awakens or at a particular time]. During the **last watch of the
> night** [2 a.m. to dawn], sitting & pacing back & forth, he cleanses
> his mind of any qualities that would hold the mind in check. This is
> how the monk is devoted to wakefulness.  
> [MN 53](https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.053.than.html)


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### Answer by username_1 on 2021-08-01. Score: 1

It's from Tipitaka like username_2 answered.

The commentary teachers are the Tipitaka Memorizer, so they concluded the [Buddha's normal daily schedule](https://5000y.men/?rm.r.67.45.0.4.) like below...

sīlakkhandhavagga,aṭṭhakathā 45 paṇṇe

> sātthakaṃyeva pana bhagavato kiccaṃ hoti. taṃ pañcavidhaṃ –
> purebhattakiccaṃ, pacchābhattakiccaṃ, purimayāmakiccaṃ,
> majjhimayāmakiccaṃ, pacchimayāmakiccanti.
>
> tatridaṃ purebhattakiccaṃ –
>
> bhagavā hi pātova uṭṭhāya upaṭṭhākānuggahatthaṃ sarīraphāsukatthañca
> mukhadhovanādisarīraparikammaṃ katvā yāva bhikkhācāravelā tāva
> vivittāsane vītināmetvā, bhikkhācāravelāyaṃ nivāsetvā kāyabandhanaṃ
> bandhitvā cīvaraṃ pārupitvā pattamādāya kadāci ekako, kadāci
> bhikkhusaṅghaparivuto, gāmaṃ vā nigamaṃ vā piṇḍāya pavisati; kadāci
> pakatiyā, kadāci anekehi pāṭihāriyehi vattamānehi. seyyathidaṃ,
> piṇḍāya pavisato lokanāthassa purato purato gantvā mudugatavātā
> pathaviṃ sodhenti, valāhakā udakaphusitāni muñcantā magge reṇuṃ
> vūpasametvā upari vitānaṃ hutvā tiṭṭhanti, apare vātā pupphāni
> upasaṃharitvā magge okiranti, unnatā bhūmippadesā onamanti, onatā
> unnamanti, pādanikkhepasamaye samāva bhūmi hoti, sukhasamphassāni
> padumapupphāni vā pāde sampaṭicchanti. indakhīlassa anto ṭhapitamatte
> dakkhiṇapāde sarīrato chabbaṇṇarasmiyo nikkhamitvā
> suvaṇṇarasapiñjarāni viya citrapaṭaparikkhittāni viya ca
> pāsādakūṭāgārādīni alaṅkarontiyo ito cito ca dhāvanti,
> hatthiassavihaṅgādayo sakasakaṭṭhānesu ṭhitāyeva madhurenākārena
> saddaṃ karonti, tathā bherivīṇādīni tūriyāni manussānañca kāyūpagāni
> ābharaṇāni. tena saññāṇena manussā jānanti – ‘‘ajja bhagavā idha
> piṇḍāya paviṭṭho’’ti. te sunivatthā supārutā gandhapupphādīni ādāya
> gharā nikkhamitvā antaravīthiṃ paṭipajjitvā bhagavantaṃ
> gandhapupphādīhi sakkaccaṃ pūjetvā vanditvā – ‘‘amhākaṃ, bhante, dasa
> bhikkhū, amhākaṃ vīsati, paññāsaṃ…pe.… sataṃ dethā’’ti yācitvā
> bhagavatopi pattaṃ gahetvā āsanaṃ paññapetvā sakkaccaṃ piṇḍapātena
> paṭimānenti. bhagavā katabhattakicco tesaṃ sattānaṃ cittasantānāni
> oloketvā tathā dhammaṃ deseti, yathā keci saraṇagamanesu
> patiṭṭhahanti, keci pañcasu sīlesu, keci
> sotāpattisakadāgāmianāgāmiphalānaṃ aññatarasmiṃ; keci pabbajitvā
> aggaphale arahatteti. evaṃ mahājanaṃ anuggahetvā uṭṭhāyāsanā vihāraṃ
> gacchati.
>
> tattha gantvā maṇḍalamāḷe paññattavarabuddhāsane nisīdati, bhikkhūnaṃ
> bhattakiccapariyosānaṃ āgamayamāno. tato bhikkhūnaṃ
> bhattakiccapariyosāne upaṭṭhāko bhagavato nivedeti. atha bhagavā
> gandhakuṭiṃ pavisati. idaṃ tāva purebhattakiccaṃ.
>
> atha bhagavā evaṃ katapurebhattakicco gandhakuṭiyā upaṭṭhāne nisīditvā
> pāde pakkhāletvā pādapīṭhe ṭhatvā bhikkhusaṅghaṃ ovadati –
> ‘‘bhikkhave, appamādena sampādetha, dullabho buddhuppādo lokasmiṃ,
> dullabho manussattapaṭilābho, dullabhā sampatti, dullabhā pabbajjā,
> dullabhaṃ saddhammassavana’’nti. tattha keci bhagavantaṃ kammaṭṭhānaṃ
> pucchanti. bhagavāpi tesaṃ cariyānurūpaṃ kammaṭṭhānaṃ deti. tato
> sabbepi bhagavantaṃ vanditvā attano attano rattiṭṭhānadivāṭṭhānāni
> gacchanti. keci araññaṃ, keci rukkhamūlaṃ, keci pabbatādīnaṃ
> aññataraṃ, keci cātumahārājikabhavanaṃ…pe.… keci vasavattibhavananti.
> tato bhagavā gandhakuṭiṃ pavisitvā sace ākaṅkhati, dakkhiṇena passena
> sato sampajāno muhuttaṃ sīhaseyyaṃ kappeti. atha samassāsitakāyo
> vuṭṭhahitvā dutiyabhāge lokaṃ voloketi. tatiyabhāge yaṃ gāmaṃ vā
> nigamaṃ vā upanissāya viharati tattha mahājano purebhattaṃ dānaṃ datvā
> pacchābhattaṃ sunivattho supāruto gandhapupphādīni ādāya vihāre
> sannipatati. tato bhagavā sampattaparisāya anurūpena pāṭihāriyena
> gantvā dhammasabhāyaṃ paññattavarabuddhāsane nisajja dhammaṃ deseti
> kālayuttaṃ samayayuttaṃ, atha kālaṃ viditvā parisaṃ uyyojeti, manussā
> bhagavantaṃ vanditvā pakkamanti. idaṃ pacchābhattakiccaṃ.
>
> so evaṃ niṭṭhitapacchābhattakicco sace gattāni osiñcitukāmo hoti,
> buddhāsanā vuṭṭhāya nhānakoṭṭhakaṃ pavisitvā upaṭṭhākena
> paṭiyāditaudakena gattāni utuṃ gaṇhāpeti. upaṭṭhākopi buddhāsanaṃ
> ānetvā gandhakuṭipariveṇe paññapeti. bhagavā surattadupaṭṭaṃ nivāsetvā
> kāyabandhanaṃ bandhitvā uttarāsaṅgaṃ ekaṃsaṃ karitvā tattha gantvā
> nisīdati ekakova muhuttaṃ paṭisallīno, atha bhikkhū tato tato āgamma
> bhagavato upaṭṭhānaṃ āgacchanti.
>
> tattha ekacce pañhaṃ pucchanti, ekacce kammaṭṭhānaṃ, ekacce
> dhammassavanaṃ yācanti. bhagavā tesaṃ adhippāyaṃ sampādento
> purimayāmaṃ vītināmeti. idaṃ purimayāmakiccaṃ.
>
> purimayāmakiccapariyosāne pana bhikkhūsu bhagavantaṃ vanditvā
> pakkantesu sakaladasasahassilokadhātudevatāyo okāsaṃ labhamānā
> bhagavantaṃ upasaṅkamitvā pañhaṃ pucchanti, yathābhisaṅkhataṃ antamaso
> caturakkharampi. bhagavā tāsaṃ devatānaṃ pañhaṃ vissajjento
> majjhimayāmaṃ vītināmeti. idaṃ majjhimayāmakiccaṃ.
>
> pacchimayāmaṃ pana tayo koṭṭhāse katvā purebhattato paṭṭhāya nisajjāya
> pīḷitassa sarīrassa kilāsubhāvamocanatthaṃ ekaṃ koṭṭhāsaṃ caṅkamena
> vītināmeti. dutiyakoṭṭhāse gandhakuṭiṃ pavisitvā dakkhiṇena passena
> sato sampajāno sīhaseyyaṃ kappeti. tatiyakoṭṭhāse paccuṭṭhāya
> nisīditvā purimabuddhānaṃ santike dānasīlādivasena
> katādhikārapuggaladassanatthaṃ buddhacakkhunā lokaṃ voloketi. idaṃ
> pacchimayāmakiccaṃ.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Yes, this recovering dumbed down American would like a translation too please, although this is not an official request, as we're all so busy. Also, what are ways to site this? Something like: Sutta Piṭaka Dīghanikāyo sīlakkhandhavagga, aṭṭhakathā 45 paṇṇe?  

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