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1. Anupubbīkatha, in pāli canons, is the sequential teaching or teaching step-by-step. It can be a story or history. See the search results from tipitaka and atthakathā.

2. Anupubbīkathā, in tipitaka context, is a single-time teaching of the entire instructional sequence. It is the very long sutta which describes a buddhist practitioner's procedure, for example:

   • The single-time teaching of Nidhikaṇḍaṃ (Kp 8) (with some commentary)
   • Plus Uposathasuttaṃ (AN 3.70) (with some commentary)
   • Plus Sāmaññaphalasuttaṃ (DN 2) (with some commentary).

22.1Mendicants, I don’t say that enlightenment is achieved right away.

But the buddha&teacher taught a shorter and more complex sutta to the insider lay man&lay woman, upāsaka and upāsikā, because they have enough ability and knowledge to learn the higher level, e.g. AN Dānasutta. You can see that sutta is shorter and more complex, included only charity and the Path. It is anupubbīkathā, but it is not the meaning of "anupubbīkathā" word in the context like Sutta. Aṅ. (4): aṭṭhaka-nipātā.

The first saṅgāyanā monks chose "anupubbikathā" words to avoid the over long of sutta. Because most of lay at that time don't have much knowledge for an enlightenment, buddha have to taught them very long sutta (maybe more that DN) and mix many contents to let them enlighten as sotāpanna, or trust to dhamma. So, if the first saṅgāyanā monks didn't separate it to be many smaller sutta, it will be over long and unable to orally reciting study.

Because they are misunderstanding of anupubbikathā. And they don't know how to read teaching as four noble truth, because they never memorize netti, or never attained any professional knowledge, ñāṇa, from tipitaka-memorizer&jhānalābhī school, such as Pa-Auk.

Every noble one must enlightened four noble truth, but it is not every ordinary people can discover the noble truth from tipitaka. People who can understand the noble truth from tipitaka must can deconflict every uncleared word of tipitaka. This is unable for people who can't memorize tipitaka pali and netti, because it needs nirutti-paṭisambhidā to deconflict the whole tipitaka.

Anupubbīkatha:

1. In pāli canons, it is the sequential teaching or teaching step-by-step. It can be a story or history. See the search results from tipitaka and atthakathā.

2. In tipitaka context, it is a single-time teaching of the entire instructional sequence. It is the very long sutta which describes a buddhist practitioner's procedure, for example:

   • The single-time teaching of Nidhikaṇḍaṃ (Kp 8) (with some commentary)
   • Plus Uposathasuttaṃ (AN 3.70) (with some commentary)
   • Plus Sāmaññaphalasuttaṃ (DN 2) (with some commentary).

Mendicants, I don’t say that enlightenment is achieved right away.

But the buddha and teacher taught a shorter and more complex sutta to the insider lay man and lay woman (upāsaka and upāsikā), because they have enough ability and knowledge to learn the higher level, e.g. Dānasutta (AN 7.49). You can see that sutta is shorter and more complex, included only charity and the Path. It is anupubbīkathā, but it is not the meaning of "anupubbīkathā" word in the context like AN 8.22.

The first saṅgāyanā monks chose "anupubbikathā" words to avoid the over long of sutta. Because most lay people at that time didn't have much knowledge for enlightenment, the buddha had to teach them very long suttas (maybe longer than a DN sutta) and mix many contents to let them enlighten as sotāpanna, or trust to dhamma. So, if the first saṅgāyanā monks didn't separate it to be many smaller sutta, it would have been too long and unable to study by oral recitation.

Because they are misunderstanding of anupubbikathā. And they don't know how to read teaching as four noble truth, because they never memorize Nettipakarana, or never attained any professional knowledge, ñāṇa, from tipitaka-memorizer and jhānalābhī school, such as Pa-Auk.

Every noble one must enlightened four noble truth, but it is not every ordinary people can discover the noble truth from tipitaka. People who can understand the noble truth from tipitaka must deconflict every uncleared word of tipitaka. This is not feasible for people who can't memorize tipitaka pali and netti, because it needs nirutti-paṭisambhidā to deconflict the whole tipitaka.

Ugga-richman, lay, said in Sutta. Aṅ. (4): aṭṭhaka-nipātā:

After listened anupubbīkathā, some listener can enlighten "dhammacakkhuṃ", i.e. from DN Sāmaññaphalasuttaṃ:

You can search more result by yourself with word "dhammacakkhu", "anupubbika" and "anupuppīka".

There are many place like that in tipitaka, so Buddha exactly taught four noble truth to the lay. The required questions are:

1. What is anupubbīkathā?

2. Why Buddha often taught anupubbīkathā to a lay?

3. Why the first saṅgāyanā monks have to separate anupubbīkathā as may partitions?

4. Why some people think Buddha never taught meditation to a lay?

5. What is anupubbīkathā?

1. Anupubbīkatha, in pāli canons, is the sequence teaching, story, or history. See, each searching results from tipitaka and  atthakathā.

2. Anupubbīkathā, in tipitaka context, the single time teaching of entire instructional sequence. It is the very long sutta which describing about buddhist practitioner's procedure, such as single time teaching of KN Khu Nidhikaṇḍaṃ (with some commentary) + AN Uposathasuttaṃ (with some commentary) + DN Sāmaññaphalasuttaṃ (with some commentary). You can see that is over long to orally recite.

3. Why Buddha often taught anupubbīkathā to lay?

Buddha taught anupubbikathā to everyone, not only lay, because every practitioner must practice step by step. No one can practice without sequence like a fog. See, MN Majjhimapaṇṇāsaka Kīṭāgirisutta Number 238.

However for a newbie lay who is genius, buddha taught him from the beginning step to the end in single time, such as single time teaching of KN Khu Nidhikaṇḍaṃ (with some commentary) + AN Uposathasuttaṃ (with some commentary) + DN Sāmaññaphalasuttaṃ (with some commentary).

Ugga, a rich layman, said in a sutta of the aṭṭhaka-nipātā (AN 8.22):

After listening anupubbīkathā ("step by step"), some listeners can enlighten dhammacakkhuṃ ("dhamma eye"), i.e. from the Sāmaññaphalasuttaṃ (DN 2):

You can find more results by yourself by researching the words dhammacakkhu and anupubbika.

There are many places like that in the tipitaka: so the Buddha did exactly teach the four noble truths to the lay. 

The required questions are:

1. What is anupubbīkathā?

2. Why Buddha often taught anupubbīkathā to a lay?

3. Why the first saṅgāyanā monks have to separate anupubbīkathā as many partitions?

4. Why some people think Buddha never taught meditation to a lay?

5. What is anupubbīkathā?

1. Anupubbīkatha, in pāli canons, is the sequential teaching or teaching step-by-step. It can be a story or history. See the search results from tipitaka and  atthakathā.

2. Anupubbīkathā, in tipitaka context, is a single-time teaching of the entire instructional sequence. It is the very long sutta which describes a buddhist practitioner's procedure, for example:

   • The single-time teaching of Nidhikaṇḍaṃ (Kp 8) (with some commentary)
   • Plus Uposathasuttaṃ (AN 3.70) (with some commentary)
   • Plus Sāmaññaphalasuttaṃ (DN 2) (with some commentary).

You can see that is over long to orally recite.

2. Why Buddha often taught anupubbīkathā to lay?

Buddha taught anupubbikathā to everyone, not only lay, because every practitioner must practice step by step. No one can practice without sequence like a fog -- see Kīṭāgirisutta (MN 70, number 238):

22.1Mendicants, I don’t say that enlightenment is achieved right away.

However for a newbie lay who is genius, buddha taught him from the beginning step to the end in single time -- such as single-time teaching of Kp 8 plus AN 3.70 plus DN 2 (as referenced above).

There are many place like that in tipitaka, so Buddhā exactly taught four noble truth to the lay. The required questions are:

But the buddha&teacher taught a shorter and more complex sutta to the insider lay, opāsaka and upāsikā, because they have enough ability and knowledge to learn the higher level, e.g. AN Dānasutta. You can see that sutta is shorter and more complex, included only charity and the Path. It is anupubbīkathā, but it is not the meaning of "anupubbīkathā" word in the context like Sutta. Aṅ. (4): aṭṭhaka-nipātā.

Because they are misunderstanding of anupubbikathā. And they don't know how to read teaching as four noble truth, because they never memorize netti, or never attained anyñāṇa from tipitaka-memorizer&jhānalābhī school, such as Pa-Auk.

Every noble one must enlightened four noble truth, but it is not every ordinary people can discover the noble truth from tipitaka. People who can understand the noble truth from tipitaka must can deconflict every uncleared word of tipitaka. This is unable for people who can't memorize tipitaka pali and netti, because it needs nirutti-paṭisambhidā to deconflict the whole tipitaka.

Ye dhammā hetupabhavā (dukkha) tesaṃ hetuṃ (samudaya) tathāgato āha (magga)
tesañca yo nirodho (nirodha) evaṃvādī mahāsamaṇo.

Or in Sāmaññaphalasuttaṃ, which king Ajātasattu almost enlightened as sotāpanna, it is included vipassanāñaṇa part (brief dukkha), pubbenivāsānussatiñāṇa+cutūpapātañāṇa (extended dukkha), āsavakkhayañāṇa (samudaya+nirodha), and all practitioner's procedures in this sutta are magga.

There are many place like that in tipitaka, so Buddha exactly taught four noble truth to the lay. The required questions are:

But the buddha&teacher taught a shorter and more complex sutta to the insider lay man&lay woman, upāsaka and upāsikā, because they have enough ability and knowledge to learn the higher level, e.g. AN Dānasutta. You can see that sutta is shorter and more complex, included only charity and the Path. It is anupubbīkathā, but it is not the meaning of "anupubbīkathā" word in the context like Sutta. Aṅ. (4): aṭṭhaka-nipātā.

Because they are misunderstanding of anupubbikathā. And they don't know how to read teaching as four noble truth, because they never memorize netti, or never attained any professional knowledge, ñāṇa, from tipitaka-memorizer&jhānalābhī school, such as Pa-Auk.

Every noble one must enlightened four noble truth, but it is not every ordinary people can discover the noble truth from tipitaka. People who can understand the noble truth from tipitaka must can deconflict every uncleared word of tipitaka. This is unable for people who can't memorize tipitaka pali and netti, because it needs nirutti-paṭisambhidā to deconflict the whole tipitaka.

Ye dhammā hetupabhavā (dukkha) tesaṃ hetuṃ (samudaya) tathāgato āha
tesañca yo nirodho (nirodha&magga) evaṃvādī mahāsamaṇo.

‘Those things(suffering) which proceed from a cause, of these the Truthfinder has told the cause(origin), And that which is their stopping (cessation&path)— the great recluse has such a doctrine.’”

Or in Sāmaññaphalasuttaṃ, which king Ajātasattu almost enlightened as sotāpanna, it is included vipassanāñaṇa part (brief dukkha), pubbenivāsānussatiñāṇa+cutūpapātañāṇa (extended dukkha), āsavakkhayañāṇa (samudaya+nirodha), and all practitioner's procedures in this sutta are magga.