Bhikkhu Sujato · English Selected edition
- Language
- English
- Contents
- The eight chapter names and their discourse order follow SuttaCentral’s edition index.
- Credits
- SuttaCentral published repository
- Rights
- CC0 · Bhikkhu Sujato
Contents and editions
1 · The Chapter on Awakening
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Editions & sources
Mahāsaṅgīti · Pali Selected edition
- Language
- Pali
- Contents
- The eight chapter names and their discourse order follow SuttaCentral’s edition index.
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- SuttaCentral published repository
- Rights
- Public domain · Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka Buddhavasse 2500
The occasion for an utterance
The collection
The Udāna belongs to the Khuddaka Nikāya of the Theravāda Pali canon. The name refers to an utterance prompted by an occasion. The collection has eighty discourses arranged in eight groups of ten. A characteristic discourse begins with a prose setting and ends with words attributed to the Buddha. Some of those settings are very brief. Others develop an encounter or an incident at considerable length.
Narrative settings
The first three discourses are set shortly after the awakening. They place the Buddha at the foot of a tree and associate different watches of the night with reflection on the arising and ending of conditions. Later discourses bring monks, householders and rulers into the narrative. The closing utterance may be what gives a discourse its title or its most familiar image, while the occasion and the people involved are preserved in its opening.
Editions and references
This publication pairs the Mahāsaṅgīti Pali text with Bhikkhu Sujato’s English translation. SuttaCentral supplies the divisions used in both. In a reference such as Ud 1.2, the first number identifies the group and the second identifies a complete discourse. Finer divisions within that discourse belong to the publisher’s presentation of the text.