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Eight assemblies:

1. An assembly of nobles

2. An assembly of Brahmins

3. An assembly of householders

4. An assembly of recluses

5. An assembly of gods of the heaven of the Four Great Kings

6. An assembly of gods of the heaven of the Thirty-three

7. An assembly of Mara’s retinue

8. An assembly of Brahmas

(from Digha Nikaya 16)

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