Bhikkhu Sujato · English Selected edition
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- English
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- Editorial selection of eight discourses. Each reference identifies its source collection.
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- SuttaCentral published repository
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- CC0 · Bhikkhu Sujato
Buddhism
Early Buddhist discourses
Eight complete suttas: SN 56.11, SN 22.59, SN 35.28, MN 10, MN 118, MN 61, AN 3.65 and DN 31. This is an explicit selection, not the whole Pali canon.
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Mahāsaṅgīti · Pali Selected edition
- Language
- Pali
- Contents
- Editorial selection of eight discourses. Each reference identifies its source collection.
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- SuttaCentral published repository
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- Public domain · Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka Buddhavasse 2500
Eight discourses from four collections
An editorial selection
These eight Pali discourses come from four Nikāyas, or collections, in the Theravāda canon. The Dīgha and Majjhima Nikāyas group long and middle-length discourses. The Saṃyutta Nikāya gathers discourses by connections such as a shared topic, and the Aṅguttara Nikāya arranges groups around numbers. The eight works brought together here form an editorial selection. Each retains the address it has in its larger collection.
The discourses
The three selections from the Saṃyutta Nikāya include an account of the first teaching at the deer park, a discourse on the five aggregates and the discourse commonly called the Fire Sermon. The Majjhima selections concern mindfulness, breathing and advice to Rāhula. AN 3.65 addresses the people of Kesamutta amid competing claims from religious teachers. In DN 31, a young householder’s act of honoring the directions becomes the setting for a discussion of family and social obligations.
Editions in this library
The edition pairs all eight complete discourses in Mahāsaṅgīti Pali with Bhikkhu Sujato’s English translations. A reference such as MN 61 identifies the discourse across differences in English titles. More detailed segment references identify a particular part of the text as SuttaCentral publishes it.