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| | Newsletter ...1-7-2003 |
 | | Majjhima Nikaya 66: The Buddha describes the bliss of jhana: ŒThis is called the bliss of renunciation, the bliss of seclusion, the bliss of peace, the bliss of enlightenment. | | | Majjhima Nikaya 108: Venerable Ananda is asked what kind of meditation was praised by the Buddha and what kind of meditation was not praised by the Buddha. | | | Venerable Ananda replies that the kind of meditation where the Four jhanas are attained was praised by the Buddha; the kind of meditation where the Five Hindrances are not eliminated was not praised by the Buddha. |
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| | Also, the Pali Nikayas were compiled by Theravadan Buddhists while the Chinese Agamas were translated and compiled by Mahayana Buddhists. | | | Nikaya is a Pali term similar to the Sanskrit term "Agama," meaning "basket". | | | This section contains general discourses on spiritual practice and is traditionally thought to have been recited by Sariputta at the first Buddhist Council following the Buddhas death. |
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http://departments.colgate.edu/greatreligions/pages/buddhanet/theravada/nipata.txt
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| | LIBERATION |
| | Digha Nikaya Sutta 16 says that if monks were to live the holy life perfectly according to Dhamma-Vinaya, the world would not lack for Arahants. | | | Majjhima Nikaya Sutta 14 tells how a cousin of the Buddha, Mahanama, came to see the Buddha and said that he had learnt the Dhamma for a long time and knew that greed, hatred and delusion were defilements. | | | The true Dhamma is embodied in the discourses of the Buddha found in the earliest 4 Nikayas: are generally accepted by all schools of Buddhism to be the original Teachings of the Buddha, unlike other books (e.g. |
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| | Numerical Discourses of the Buddha: An Anthology of Suttas from the Anguttara Nikaya |
| | The Anguttara Nikaya is a part of the Pali Canon, the authorized recension of the Buddha's Word for followers of Theravada Buddhism, the form of Buddhism prevailing in the Buddhist countries of southern Asia. | | | Numerical Discourses of the Buddha: An Anthology of Suttas from the Anguttara Nikaya | | | Book Description: Drawn from the Anguttara Nikaya, Numerical Discourses of the Buddha brings together teachings of the Buddha ranging from basic ethical observances recommended to the busy man or woman of the world, to the more rigorous instructions on mental training prescribed for the monks and nuns. |
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| | Sri Lanka's Contribution to the Development of the Pali Canon |
| | With the establishment of the concept that the Khuddaka Nikaya is fifteenfold in the Mahavihara tradition, a new text not known to the Indian Buddhists was introduced to the Khuddaka Nikaya in Sri Lanka. | | | It is the Khuddaka Nikaya that undergone a qualitative and a quantitative difference in Sri Lanka. | | | The Khuddaka Nikaya developed in India for centuries before Buddhism was introduced to Sri Lanka. |
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| | NIKAYA - LoveToKnow Article on NIKAYA |
| | The first two Nikayas, called respectively Dig/ta and Majj/tima (Longer and Shorter), form one book, a collection of the dialogues of the Buddha, the longer ones beini included in the former, the shorter ones in the latter. | | | In the 5th century B.C. in India it was found convenient by the early Buddhists to classify almost the whole of their psychology and ethics in this manner. | | | To us, now, the Sa,lsyulla seems full of repetitions; and we are apt to forget that they are there for a very good reason. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/N/NI/NIKAYA.htm
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| | CHRONOLOGY OF THE PALI CANON |
| | But even presuming that the five nikaya divisions of the growing Buddhist canon were current in the third century B. C., it does not necessarily follow from it that all the books or Sutt-as or individual passages comprising the five nikayas were composed at that time. | | | With regard to the Dighanikaya it has been directly pointed out by Buddhaghosa that the concluding verses of the Mahaparinibbana Suttanta relating to the redisribution of Buddha's bodily remains were originally composed by the rehearsers of the Third Buddhist Council and added later on by the Buddhist teachers of Ceylon. | | | This Nikaya contains a section(Mundarajavagga in the Pancaka Nipata)commemorating the name of King Munda who reigned, as shown by Rhys Davids, in Rajagaha about half a century after the demise of the Buddha The Nikaya made within the fifty years from the Buddha's demise. |
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| | Anguttara Nikaya / tipintr3.htm |
| | Although the collection contains the inspired sayings of the Buddha as in Udana, each passage is preceded by the phrase 'Iti vuttam Bhagavata', 'thus was said by the Buddha,' and reads like a personal note book in which are recorded short pithy sayings of the Buddha. | | | These erudite questions and answers on the Teaching of the Buddha are compiled into the book known as the Milindapanha Pali. | | | First of the treatises in this Nikaya, Khuddakapatha contains readings of mirror passages" most of which are also found in other parts of Tipitaka. |
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| | Numerical Discourses of the Buddha |
| | The Pali Text Society's translations of the four main Nikayas, or divisions of the oldest Buddhist scriptures, began in 1899 with TW Rhys Davids' translation of the Digha Nikaya. | | | Whereas the chapters in the Samyutta Nikaya are divided according to subject matter, for example the 'Uncompounded', or the 'Aggregates', the Anguttara is divided into chapters according to number, from one to eleven. | | | One of the most frequently quoted and doctrinally problematic statements from the Anguttara is that: 'This mind O monks, is luminous, but is defiled by adventitious defilements'. |
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| | Gautama Buddha |
| | Although the Buddha was not represented in human form until around the 1st century CE (see Buddhist art), his physical characteristics are described in one of the central texts of the traditional Pali canon, the Digha Nikaya. | | | They help define the global aspect of the historical Buddha: |
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| | The Ways of Buddhism |
| | Digha Nikaya Sutta 16 & Anguttara Nikaya Sutta 4.180 - the words & syallables are to be closely scrutinized, laid beside Sutta & compared with Vinaya. | | | Last Days of the Buddha - Maha parinibbána Sutta (Digha Nikáya Sutta 16) & Anguttara Nikáya Sutta 4.180 - the words & syllables are to be closely scrutinized, laid beside Sutta & compared with Vinaya. | | | If, when thus laid beside Sutta & compared with Vinaya, they lie not along with Sutta & agree not with Vinaya, to this conclusion must ye come: Sure this is not the word of that Exalted One, Arahant, the Fully Enlightened One, & it was wrongly taken by that monk. |
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| | Dhyana |
| | In East Asia, several schools of Buddhism were founded that focused on dhyana, under the names Chan, Zen, and Seon. | | | The Buddha's descriptions of the first four states of dhyana in the Pali Canon (Anguttara Nikaya V.28) |
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| | Anguttara Nikaya |
| | Two excellent print anthologies containing selected suttas from the Anguttara Nikaya are Numerical Discourses of the Buddha: An Anthology from the Anguttara Nikaya by Nyanaponika Thera and Bhikkhu Bodhi (Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publication Society, 1999; also published in the USA by Altamira Press) and Handful of Leaves, Vol. | | | The Anguttara Nikaya, the fourth division of the Sutta Pitaka, consists of several thousand1 suttas arranged in eleven books (nipatas) according to numerical content. | | | The exact count of suttas in the Anguttara depends on the particular edition (Sri Lankan, Thai, or Burmese) and on the way the suttas are enumerated. |
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http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/anguttara/index.html
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| | Matrceta's Hymn to the Buddha |
| | Devadatta was the Buddha's evil cousin who caused a schism in the monastic community and even tried to kill the Buddha. | | | For a description of the hardships and simplicity of the Buddha's life similar to those mentioned here, see Anguttara Nikaya, 1:34. | | | The triple world: the world of desire, the world of form and the formless world. |
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| | Anguttara Nikaya |
| | The Anguttara Nikaya, the fourth division of the Sutta Pitaka, consists of suttas arranged in eleven sections (nipatas) according to numerical content. | | | The Buddha identifies eleven benefits arising from the practice of metta (loving kindness, or good-will) meditation. | | | For example, if you dimly recall having once heard someone say something about the five subjects worthy of daily contemplation, and you'd like to track down the original passage in the Canon, you might begin your search in the "Book of the Fives" in the Anguttara. |
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| | The Buddha's general advice to lay followers |
| | It is impossible, monks, it cannot come to pass, that in one world-system, at one and the same time, there should arise two arahants who are Fully Enlightened Ones. | | | Then certain gods exclaimed: "Oh, if only four fully enlightened Buddhas were to arise in the world and teach the Dhamma just like the Blessed Lord! | | | Anguttara Nikaya - Book of The Ones Chapter XV 1-28 |
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| | When first introduced to buddhism, I was most impressed by this teaching which exhorts one to not rely on what others say in what to believe. | | | Venerable sir, may the Blessed One accept us as followers, who have gone for refuge, form this day forth while life lasts. | | | Anguttara Nikaya, Tika Nipata, Mahavagga, Sutta No. 65 |
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| | Samadhi Sutta (AN IV.41) |
| | Bhikkhu Bodhi and Nyanaponika Thera, translation, "Anguttara Nikaya, AN (The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha)," Altamira Press, 1997 | | | This translation based upon Thanissaro Bhikkhu's original Revised: Sun 19-Oct-2003 translation is available at this URL: |
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| | Sutta Pitaka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | These include The Greater Discourse on the Foundations of Mindfulness, The Fruits of the Contemplative Life, and The Buddha's Last Days. | | | There are 152 medium-length suttas in this nikaya. | | | There are 34 long suttas in this nikaya. |
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| | Abbreviations and Sutta Reference Numbers |
| | The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A New Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya, Bhikkhu Bodhi, trans. | | | Contains 34 suttas.[2] References are to sutta number. | | | Depending on how the suttas are tallied, it contains either 9,557, 8,777, or 2,308 suttas.[4] The Anguttara Nikaya is divided into 11 nipatas (books), each of which is further divided into vaggas containing 10 or more suttas. |
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http://www.cambodianbuddhist.org/english/website/abbrev.html
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| | Sutta Pitaka |
| | Bhikkhu Bodhi, Connected Discourses of the Buddha (Somerville, Mass.: Wisdom Publications, 2000), p.31, referring to Joy Manné's "Categories of Sutta in the Pali Nikayas and Their Implications for Our Appreciation of the Buddhist Teaching and Literature," Journal of the Pali Text Society 15 (1990): 29-87. | | | Recent scholarship suggests that a distinguishing trait of the Digha Nikaya may be that it was "intended for the purpose of propaganda, to attract converts to the new religion." 1 | | | The suttas are grouped into five nikayas, or collections: |
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| | Way2happylivingA3 |
| | A person of conviction, on the break-up of the body, after death, will arise in a good destination, the heavenly world. | | | Anguttara Nikaya V.43 : Ittha Sutta (What is Welcome) | | | Anguttara Nikaya V.38 : Saddha Sutta (The advantage of Believing) |
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| | Anguttara Nikaya Commentary |
| | There's also a fine set of online translations (not complete) by Thanissaro Bhikkhu, to be found at the Access to Insight website. | | | This is the link to the section on the Samyutta Nikaya. | | | The only complete translation of the Anguttara Nikaya in English at the moment is that of the Pali Text Society. |
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| | Structure of the Tipitaka |
| | Samyutta Nikaya - 7,762 suttas classified into 56 samyutta (chapters) based on unifying themes | | | The Majjhima Nikaya is divided into three groups: | | | The Khuddaka Nikaya is a collection of 15 minor works: |
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| | Kamma and Vedananupassana |
| | This is annihilation of kamma here and now, immediately verifiable and leading to higher spirituality; this has to be individually realized by the wise (navam ca kammam na karoti, purananca. | | | According to Anguttara Nikaya15, one should observe moral habits (silava hoti patimokkha samvarasamvuto...), not accumulate new kamma and expel old kamma by experiencing them. | | | Now the question that arises: how can this intention be translated into effective action? |
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| | Punjabi.net discussions chat forums |
| | of Anguttara Nikaya VIII.43 etc] documents the existence of 16 prominent tribes around Buddhist times. | | | [For Kamboja Mahajanapada of the Buddhist texts: please ref: Buddhist Jataka Majjhima Nakaya 2/146; also ref: Anguttara Nikaya VIII.43, Visakhuposatha Sutta ; see website: AN VIII.43: Visakhuposatha Sutta | | | Among these 16 prominent tribes, Gandhara and Kamboja tribes were located in the extreme Uttarapatha i.e north-west India. |
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| | What's New at Access to Insight |
| | This sampling of passages from the Milindapañha, translated from the Pali by John Kelly, gives a taste of what the text offers. | | | I have revamped the Khuddaka Nikaya page and added my recommendations for print editions of English translations of each of the books in this Nikaya. |
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| | Books : Anguttara Nikaya: An Anthology: Part III - Shop for Outdoor Gear, Outdoor Clothing, and Footwear |
| | Be careful because this book is in Spanish even if you may note this information only enlarging the picture or, as in my case, when you receive the book at your home. | | | Home / Shop / Books : Anguttara Nikaya: An Anthology: Part III | | | Offer your visitors a co-branded guides and outfitters directory. |
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| | Old news - September 2000 |
| | Instructions to a generous lay person: Generosity is good, but there is still more to be done. | | | In the meantime, here's a new one from the Anguttara Nikaya: | | | A dozen or so new suttas and a few other goodies are forthcoming within the next few weeks, so check back at this page from time to time. |
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| | Selections from the Anguttara Nikaya |
| | Anguttara Nikâya - II Selected and Translated from the Pali | | | Permission may be obtained to reproduce this publication. |
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| | Anguttara Nikaya IV.77 |
| | May we and all our relatives want to do doings that lead to blessings | | | Majjhima Nikaya 117 - Maha-cattarisaka Sutta - The Great Forty | | | I've juste read a few lines about the "Jhana" (Anguttara Nikaya IV.77), |
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| | AN IV.77: Acintita Sutta |
| | I.e., the range of powers that one may obtain while absorbed in jhana. | | | Source: Transcribed from a file provided by the translator. | | | Home » Tipitaka »; Suttas » Anguttara » Context of this sutta |
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