|
| |
| | 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. |  | | Majjhima Nikaya 76 : Ananda points out that the Buddha declared a wise man certainly would live the holy life, and while living it would attain the true way, the Dhamma that is wholesome, if he can eliminate the Five Hindrances and attain the Four jhanas as well as realize the three true knowledges. |
|
http://www.urbandharma.org/udnl/nl010703.html
|
|
| |
| | LIBERATION |
 | | 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. |  | | 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. |  | | 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. |
|
http://watthai.net/talon/liberation.htm
|
|
| |
| | Amazon.de: English Books: The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A New Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya ... |
 | | This new translation of the Majjhima Nikaya, part of the Pali Canon touching on the nature of Nirvana and the Four Noble Truths, is considered by scholars to be the most reliable source for the original teachings of the historical Buddha. |  | | The Majjhima Nikaya (Middle-length Discourses) is, along with the other nikayas of the Pali Canon, probably as close as we can come today to reading the actual words of the Buddha. |  | | Zum Seitenanfang : The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A New Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya (Teachings of the Buddha) |
|
http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/086171072X
|
|
| |
| | 4Nobletruths |
 | | A remarkably high percentage of the majjhima is completely relevant to the core teachings of the Buddha, whereas Digha nikaya (long discourses) has too many suttas on peripheral elements of Buddhism that are not essential elements of the path (to liberation). |  | | The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya (Teachings of the Buddha) |  | | Every sect of Buddhism that claims to be legitimate Buddhism must have 100% compliance with the core teachings presented in the Majjhima. |
|
http://www.4nobletruths.com/absolutely_essential_reading/majjhima_nikaya.htm
|
|
| |
| | Buddha Images |
 | | The story of the death of the Buddha is in the Digha Nikaya 16, Mahaparinibbana Sutta. |  | | Reclining Buddha represents the dying of the historic Buddha at age eighty on the outskirts of Kusinara (Pali) Kushinagara (Sanskrit), India. |  | | The Buddha tells the story of abandoning the ascetic life, eating, and the enlightenment in the Majjhima Nikaya 36, Mahasaccaka Sutta but there is no mention of touching the ground with the right hand. |
|
http://www.afewsimsapaleaves.org/BuddhaImagesl.htm
|
|
| |
| | Buddhist psychology: A review of theory and practice |
 | | However, a parallel of this in Early Buddhism is found in the Satipattthana Sutta, also part of the Majjhima Nikaya (1888-1902), and the Mahasatipattthana Sutta of the Digha Nikaya (1889-1910). |  | | The other teachings of the Buddha include the negation of a permanent and unchanging soul (anatta), and the notion of the impermanence or transience of things (anicca) (e.g., Majjhima Nikaya, 1, 1888-1902). |  | | The person who undertakes a life based on this path, renouncing worldly attachments, hopes eventually to attain the arahant state, which may be described as a state of perfection; the word arahant literally means "the worthy one." This state marks the attainment of Nibbana. |
|
http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-ADM/silva.htm
|
|
| |
| | Bodhi Monastery |
 | | AN = Anguttara Nikaya (Numerical Discourses of the Buddha) |  | | MN = Majjhima Nikaya (Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha) |  | | SN = Samyutta Nikaya (Connected Discourses of the Buddha) |
|
http://www.satipatthana.org/sutta_study_group_syllabus.htm
|
|
| |
| | CBS HOMEPAGE |
 | | The Buddha's words on Kamma¡Gfour discourses of the Buddha from the Majjhima Nikaya / Shaku, Soyen. |  | | The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, A New Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya¡]Translated from the Pali. |  | | The Majjhima Nikaya¡Gthe first fifty discourses from the collection of the medium-length discourses of Gotama the Buddha / Bhikkhu Silacara |
|
http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/CBS-bin/KeyWordSearch.pl?keyword=%20Majjhima%20Nikaya
|
|
| |
| | Suttas |
 | | The Majjhima Nikaya might be concisely described as the Buddhist scripture that combines the richest variety of contextual settings with the deepest and most comprehensive assortment of teachings. |  | | Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha (Majjhima Nikaya), Bhikkhus Nanamoli and Bodhi (transl.), Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 1995, 1412p., 0-86171-072-X. A major collection of 152 of the Buddha's discourses. |  | | The five books are arranged in fifty-six chapters that contain all the important short discourses of the Buddha on such major topics as dependent origination, the five aggregates, the six sense bases, the seven factors of enlightenment, the Noble Eightfold Path, and the Four Noble Truths. |
|
http://www.ottawabuddhistsociety.com/library/Suttas.html
|
|
| |
| | Tipitaka Network: Moments of Inspirations |
 | | The Samyutta Nikaya contains three suttas in which the Venerable Maha Kaccana displays his ingenuity in elaborating upon brief utterances of the Buddha: SN 22:3, SN 22:4, and SN 35:130. |  | | The first sutta in the Majjhima Nikaya in which the Venerable Maha Kaccana plays a prominent role is the Madhupindika Sutta (MN 18), the Honeyball Discourse, a title assigned to it by the Buddha himself -- perhaps a unique instance of the Buddha's conferring a title upon a sutta spoken by a disciple. |  | | Besides these, we find in the Nikayas several other discourses that the Venerable Maha Kaccana spoke without basing himself upon a brief utterance of the Buddha as his text. |
|
http://www.tipitaka.net/pali/moments/pageload.php?book=004&page=05
|
|
| |
| | The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya (Teachings of the Buddha) From the ... |
 | | Used The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya (Teachings of the Buddha) are in stock for only $40.00. |  | | The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya (Teachings of the Buddha) |  | | The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya (Teachings of the Buddha) |
|
http://fromtheunderwriter.com/amazon/asin.086171072X.Book_The_Middle_Length_Discourses_of_the_Buddha_A_Translation_of_the_Majjhima_Nikaya_Teachings_of_the_Buddha_.html
|
|
| |
| | The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha - PriceGrabber.com |
 | | Synopsis: This book offers a complete translation of the Majjhima Nikaya, the Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, one of the major collections of texts in the Pali Canon, the authorized scriptures of Theravada Buddhism. |
|
http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?isbn=086171072X&nrd=1
|
|
| |
| | Directed Thought |
 | | The Buddha stated that if a teaching did not have to do with the removal of suffering it was not his teaching Majjhima Nikaya 63: Culamalunkya Sutta. |  | | In the Anguttara Nikaya 4:41, Samadhi Sutta the Buddha states that the first Jhana is accompanied by directed thought and evaluation. |  | | In the Anguttara Nikaya 9:36, Jhana Sutta the Buddha says that ending the mental fermentations depends on the first jhana. |
|
http://www.afewsimsapaleaves.org/DirectedThought.htm
|
|
| |
| | The Dharma |
 | | The Middle-Length Discourses of the Buddha: A New Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya |  | | of the intracacies of Buddhist Philosophy, beginning with the Pali Nikayas, making a strenuous effort to understand precisely what the Buddha was saying, as recorded in these earliest sources, particularly in regard to non-substantiality and the middle way--avoiding the extremes of absolutism (both eternalism and nihilism). |  | | If his thesis does not jive with what most contemporary Buddhists teach about Buddhism, we must nevertheless give his argument the consideration due a serious Pali scholar. |
|
http://unblinkingeye.com/Books/Bud/bud.html
|
|
| |
| | Similes of the Raft and the Snake-catcher |
 | | The simile of snake-catcher used by the Buddha in the aforementioned Sutta is also equally indispensable in illustrating the danger of the wrong grasp of a religion. |  | | The close scrutiny of the application of this simile used by the Buddha in Snake-simile (Alagaddupama) Sutta, Discourse no. 22 in Majjhima Nikaya (The Middle Length Discourses), elucidates how skillfully he chose it to illustrate precisely what people, who don't fully comprehend the meaning of religions, have been doing throughout the history of religion. |
|
http://www.saigon.com/~anson/ebud/ebsut023.htm
|
|
| |
| | Wisdom Books - focusing on Buddhism, Meditation, Tibet and the rapidly developing dialogue between east - west ... |
 | | The Sutta-Pitaka is the main source for the doctrine of the Buddha and it is spoken of as being divided into five collections (Nikayas) of texts. |  | | It is unclear how many other recensions of the canon of Buddhist scriptures existed in other languages, what is known however is that the Pali canon is the only one to have survived apparently complete in an Indian language. |  | | It is accurate to state that it is these texts which constitute the essential common heritage of Buddhist thought and they therefore represent the most convenient starting point in the quest for an understanding of Buddhism. |
|
http://www.wisdom-books.com/FocusDetail.asp?FocusRef=8
|
|
| |
| | 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. |  | | Wisdom has continued its excellent work with further translations of the Majjhima Nikaya, or The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, published in 1995, and the Samyutta Nikaya, or The Connected Discourses of the Buddha, published last year. |
|
http://www.dharmalife.com/issue16/thus.html
|
|
| |
| | Majjhima Nikaya 41 THE BRAHMINS OF SALA (//Saleyyaka Sutta//) Introduction The brahmins of |
 | | Beings who appear due to the force of past action (kamma) in some states of birth: all gods and divinities, ghosts, inhabitants of hells; see Majjhima Nikaya Sutta 12 (Mahasihanada Sutta). |  | | For an explanation of these views held by some teachers in the Buddhist time, and which were a rejection of all moral values, see Ledi Sayadaw, //The Eightfold and its Factors Explained// (BPS Wheel No. 245/247). |  | | The Buddha then analyzes what kind of kamma will take one to a low rebirth. |
|
http://www.skepticfiles.org/mys5/brahmins.htm
|
|
| |
| | 'The Canonical Account of the Birth of Gotama the Buddha' (Majjhima 123) |
 | | Other inscriptions of the same date speak of reciters of the Pitakas, reciters of the Suttas, and reciters of the Five Nikâyas, whereof the Majjhima is one. |  | | But, above all, nearly the entire Nativity Sutta (Majjhima 123) translated by me last August, is embedded in the Dîgha-Nikâya (Mahâpadhâna-Sutta, No. 14), where it is told of a former Buddha, Vipassî. |  | | 'The Canonical Account of the Birth of Gotama the Buddha' (Majjhima 123) |
|
http://www.sacred-texts.com/journals/oc/cabgb.htm
|
|
| |
| | zen insights Pali |
 | | The Buddha, Upakkilesa Sutta, Majjhima Nikaya, Wisdom edition, p. |  | | The Buddha, Anapanasati Sutta [Mindfulness of Breathing Sutra], Majjhima Nikaya, Wisdom edition, p. |
|
http://www.zenki.org/zenbuddhismsurrey15.htm
|
|
| |
| | SOME REMARKS ON PATICCA-SAMUPPADA |
 | | The Sutta in question is Anguttara Nikaya Book of the Three’s, Sutta 61 verses I-IV. |  | | The Paticca-samuppada is explained in detail at two places in the Sutta-Pitaka : in the Mahanidana - Sutta, No 15 of the Digha Nikaya ; and in the Nidana - Samyutta, Samyutta No XII of the Samyutta Nikaya. |  | | Once one sees what the Buddha meant by Jati in the context of Paticca-samuppada (see Samyutta Nikaya XII.2 and Mahanidana - Sutta Verse 4) then wriggle as one might, one will have to accept that the Buddha meant Paticca-samuppada to span more than one life. |
|
http://www.metta.lk/english/paticca.htm
|
|
| |
| | Majjhima Nikaya |
 | | The Buddha explained the basis of all phenomena, specifying twenty four categories such as the four elements (earth, water, fire, wind); sentient beings, devas; the seen, the heard, the thought of, the known; the oneness, the multiplicity, the whole; and the reality of Nibbana. |  | | The first book, Mulapannasa, deals with the first fifty suttas in five vaggas, the second book, Majjhimapannasa consists of the second fifty suttas in five vaggas too; and the last fifty two suttas are dealt with in five vaggas of the third book, Uparipannasa, which means more than fifty. |  | | In this discourse, given at Savatthi, the Buddha made the bold statement that the four Categories of Ariyas, namely, the Stream-winner, the Once-returner, the Non-returner and the Arahat exist only in his Teaching and not in any other. |
|
http://www.floridabuddhistvihara.org/majjhima_nikaya.htm
|
|
| |
| | The Way of Mindfulness |
 | | The Discourse on the Arousing of Mindfulness (Satipatthána Sutta, Majjhima Nikáya No. 10 and Digha Nikáya No. 22) and the excerpts from its commentary given here deal with the method of training for insight (vipassana) according to the Buddha's teaching. |  | | These commentaries are ascribed to Acariya Buddhaghosa, an Indian Thera who worked in Sri Lanka in the 5th century A.C., but are securely based on the old commentaries, which record the explanations devised by the ancient masters of the Dhamma. |  | | For this reason, from an early period, the ancient masters of Buddhist meditation began to supply more detailed instructions based on their own practical experience. |
|
http://www.buddhistinformation.com/way_of_mindfulness.htm
|
|
| |
| | BURMA (MYANMAR) PITAKA ASSOCIATION / introduc.htm |
 | | When the Pali Texts as a whole are divided into Nikayas, the five books of Vinaya and the seven books of Abhidhamma are included in the Khuddaka Nikaya. |  | | The Khuddaka Nikaya contains eighteen books of miscellaneous suttas, as accepted by the Sixth international Buddhist Synod of 1954-56. |  | | The first sutta from Mahavagga in this publication, the fourth one here, starts with paragraph No.95, because this actually is the second sutta in Book Two. |
|
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/buddhism/introduc.htm
|
|
| |
| | Book Review: The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A New Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya |
 | | First discovered in fairly rough form among the personal effects of the late English scholar-monk Bhikkhu Nanamoli (1905-1960), some ninety of the 152 suttas were reworked by Bhikkhu Khantipalo (Laurence Mills) and published in Thailand as A Treasury of the Buddha's Words. |  | | So the term 'Discourses of the Buddha' in the title of this translation of the Majjhima Nikaya includes much more than a single voice. |  | | Many readers will also find its presentation of the fundamentals of the Buddha's teaching, as well as key terms found in the discourses, very helpful in finding an orientation to the suttas themselves. |
|
http://www.ordinarymind.net/may2003/bookreview_03.htm
|
|
| |
| | THE SIMILE OF THE CLOTH |
 | | The Buddha's Discourse on Effacement (Sallekha Sutta; quoted as M. 8) is the eighth of the Collection of Middle Length Texts (Majjhima Nikaya). |  | | As it was said (by the Enlightened One): 'This mind, monks, is luminous, but it becomes soiled by adventitious defilements' (Anguttara Nikaya I). |  | | Two Discourses of the Buddha from the Majjhima Nikaya |
|
http://watthai.net/talon/wheel/wheel61.htm
|
|
| |
| | Uparipannasa suttas / uparipan.htm |
 | | When the Pali Texts as a whole are classified into Nikayas, the five books of Vinaya and the seven books of Abhidhamma are also included in the Khuddaka Nikaya. |  | | The Pali Texts which embody the teachings of the Buddha can be classified into two ways, either as Pitakas or as Nikayas. |  | | May the Buddha's Teaching shine forth like the radiant sun. |
|
http://www.triplegem.plus.com/uparipan.htm
|
|
| |
| | Amazon.ca: Books: Majjhima Nikaya - Sermones Medios del Buddha |
 | | Amazon.ca: Books: Majjhima Nikaya - Sermones Medios del Buddha |  | | Top of Page : Majjhima Nikaya - Sermones Medios del Buddha |  | | Look for books like Majjhima Nikaya - Sermones Medios del Buddha by subject: |
|
http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/8472453782
|
|
| |
| | World Religions: Comparative Analysis |
 | | There are also the texts in Khuddaka-nikaya 10 and the Jataka tales, referring to the previous lives of Buddha and his friends, in which each one's identity is always known. |  | | Also, the very existence of the supranatural power of recollecting past lives attained in concentration ( Digha Nikaya 12) suggests that a certain core of personal identity must exist and be reincarnated from one life to the next. |  | | Such was my food, such my experience of pleasure and pain, such the end of my life. |
|
http://www.comparativereligion.com/Buddhism.html
|
|
| |
| | Wisdom - Our Catalog |
 | | Bhikkhu Bodhi is committed to a new translation of the Angutttara Nikaya, which will be published in this Teachings of the Buddha series by Wisdom. |  | | "This new translation of the Majjhima Nikaya...is considered by scholars to be the most reliable source for the original teachings of the historical Buddha." |  | | The work will take a few years to complete. |
|
http://www.wisdompubs.org/products/086171072X.cfm?userID=A8786086-021C-45A6-A55B13CBA9677816
|
|
| |
| | IMC library |
 | | Majjhima Nikaya--Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, The |  | | Practice of Perfection, The: Paramitas from a Zen Buddhist Perspective |  | | Living with the Devil; a meditation on good and evil |
|
http://www.insightmeditationcenter.org/imc-library.html
|
|
| |
| | Study Guide to the Suttas of the Pali Cannon |
 | | It has been suggested that the suttas in this collection were intended as a set of study texts for newly ordained monks as they pursued spiritual development. |  | | It contains stories which you might find more engaging than the bare teachings of some of the other collections. |  | | The Samyutta Nikaya contains 2,889 suttas grouped into five sections (vaggas). |
|
http://home.alamedanet.net/~leighb/studygid.htm
|
|
| |
| | Buddhist Psychology |
 | | One can draw a number of interesting conclusions from this sutra, which support the premises put forward in Buddhist Psychology cf that the different teachings of the Buddha can be mapped onto one another, and that they describe a process model. |  | | It will include answers to questions relating to courses at Amida Trust and will give explanation and comments on aspects of Buddhist psychology. |  | | In today's course we were exploring skandha process by studying Majjhima Nikaya 149 In this sutra the Buddha talks about the way that the senses are conditioned, relating this to the development of the skandhas. |
|
http://buddhistpsychology.blogspot.com
|
|
| |
| | Abbreviations |
 | | Confusion sometimes arises over the Samyutta Nikaya ("S" or "SN") and the Sutta Nipata ("Sn" or "Snp"). |  | | This is particularly problematic in the Samyutta and Anguttara Nikayas. |  | | This method is used for the Digha and Majjhima Nikayas. |
|
http://www.cambodianvoices.org/handful_leaves/website/abbrev.html
|
|
| |
| | 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. |  | | For the notion that those who have mastered the teaching can live for an aeon, see Digha Nikaya, II: 103,118. |
|
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/bps/wheels/wheel360.html
|
|
| |
| | Jesus as a reincarnation of Buddha |
 | | "Those who have sufficient faith in me, sufficient love for me, are all headed for heaven or beyond." (Majjhima Nikaya 22:47) |  | | "If anyone should give you a blow with his hand, with a stick, or with a knife, you should abandon any desires and utter no evil words." (Majjhima Nikaya 21:6) |  | | "Anyone who enters into meditation on compassion can see Brahma with his own eyes, talk to him face to face and consult with him." (Digha Nikaya 19:43) |
|
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/origen045.html
|
|
| |
| | Majjhima Nikaya 57 THE DOG-DUTY ASCETIC (//Kukkuravatika Sutta//) Introduction There were |
 | | Majjhima Nikaya 57 THE DOG-DUTY ASCETIC (//Kukkuravatika Sutta//) Introduction ~~~~~~~~~~~~ There were some strange people around in the Buddha's days believing some strange things -- but that is no different from our own days when people still believe the most odd off-balance ideas. |  | | In this sutta we meet some people who believed that by imitating animals they would be saved. |  | | Majjhima Nikaya 57 THE DOG-DUTY ASCETIC (//Kukkuravatika Sutta//) Introduction There were |
|
http://www.skepticfiles.org/mys5/dog_duty.htm
|
|
| |
| | Home |
 | | Modern text critics are of the opinion that the oldest sources are to be found in the Digha Nikaya, the Majjhima Nikaya, the Udana, the Sutta Nipata and the Thera- and Therigatha. |  | | The build up of a text is often compared to the dialogues of Socrates according to Plato, i.e. |  | | Often the same texts with slight variations are found in the different collections. |
|
http://www.akshin.net/literature/budlitsourcespali.htm
|
|
| |
| | 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. |  | | The Book of the Kindred Sayings, Rhys Davids and F.L. Woodward, trans. |
|
http://www.pratyeka.org/a2i/abbrev.html
|
|
| |
| | The Buddha's advice on the Path |
 | | And what, monks, is the Noble Truth of the Way of Practice Leading to the Cessation of Suffering? |  | | And how does a monk know moderation in eating? |  | | Majjhima Nikaya 72:14 (Aggivacchagotta Sutta To Vacchagotta on Fire) |
|
http://www.budsas.org:8081/ebud/ebsut046.htm
|
|
| |
| | Suttas |
 | | Its expositor is the Venerable Sariputta Thera, the Buddha's chief disciple and the foremost of the Master's bhikkhu disciples in the exercise of the faculty of wisdom. |  | | The commentary to the Sammaditthi Sutta is from the Papancasudani, Acariya Buddhaghosa's complete commentary (atthakatha) to the Majjhima Nikaya. |  | | The Sammaditthi Sutta, the Discourse on Right View, is the ninth sutta of the Majjhima Nikaya, the Collection of Middle Length Discourses. |
|
http://www.purifymind.com/Suttas.htm
|
|
| |
| | Kriyas |
 | | I also looked through my library and found not one use of the term in any of my books on the Yogas, Hinduism or Buddhism, so I took to the web. |  | | I have the Digha Nikaya, the Majjhima Nikaya and the Samyutta Nikaya, and the 5th century commentary, the Visuddhimagga. |  | | I have read all of the Visuddhimagga and the Digha Nikaya, and the Majjhima Nikaya, and I do not find the word 'kriya' occurring or even a discussion of the phenomena of spontaneous shaking, quaking or twitching as a manifestation of absorption (jhana nimitta). |
|
http://www.greatwesternvehicle.org/kriyas.htm
|
|
| |
| | Fundamental Buddhism Explained Summary |
 | | For a definitive understanding of what the Buddha really taught, there is no substitute for these recognized oldest written records of what the Buddha actually said. |  | | The first 3 volumes that we heartily recommend for study are the Middle Length Sayings (Majjhima-Nikaya, Majjhima Nikaaya, Further Dialogues of the Buddha), Volumes 1, 2 and 3. |
|
http://www.fundamentalbuddhism.com/buddhism.htm
|
|
| |
| | 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. |
|
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutta_Pitaka
|
|
| |
| | Buddhism Today - Dda.o Pha^.t Nga`y Nay, default page-english |
 | | On this basis we will proceed to assess the place of mundane jhana in the early Buddhist picture of the arahat, the perfected individual. |  | | The sevenfold typology is originally found in the Kitagiri Sutta of the Majjhima Nikaya (M.i,477-79) and is reformulated in the Puggalapaññatti of the Abhidhamma Pitaka. |
|
http://www.daophatngaynay.com/english/meditation/Vip/023-jhana.htm
|
|
| |
| | Introdução ao Majjhima Nikaya |
 | | Os comentários (MA - Majjhima Nikaya Atthakatha e MT - Majjhima Nikaya Tika, que freqüentemente aparecem nas notas de cada sutta) desenvolvem uma interpretação dos caminhos e frutos baseada na sistematização dos ensinamentos do Buda conhecida como Abhidhamma. |  | | Majjhima Nikaya (MN) é a segunda coleção dos discursos do Buda encontrada no |  | | As conexões entre os nomes e as doutrinas são feitas no Samaññaphala Sutta do Digha Nikaya. |
|
http://www.acessoaoinsight.net/arquivo_textos_theravada/majjhima_intro.htm
|
|
|