Library Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha
Later compilation
Digha Nikaya (The Long Discourses)
Dīgha Nikāya
Thirty-four long discourses of the Sutta Pitaka, markedly narrative and polemical: debates with brahmins and rival ascetics (Samaññaphala, Brahmajala), cosmologies, the lives of past buddhas (Mahapadana, where the four encounters appear told of Vipassi) and the account of the Buddha's last months (Mahaparinibbana). It is the main source for the Buddha's public figure and for the image the community wished to give of him to other schools.
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Authorship note
The Buddha wrote nothing. The discourses were transmitted orally for centuries by specialised reciters and committed to writing in Sri Lanka in the first century BCE; authorship is collective and attribution to the Buddha traditional. Scholarship distinguishes early strata from later additions by comparing the Pali canon with its Chinese, Sanskrit and Tibetan parallels.
Editions and translations
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English
Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha
Dīgha Nikāya (traducción completa)
The Conscious LibraryDīgha Nikāya (traducción completa)
SuttaCentral, 2018
Translation: Bhikkhu Sujato
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The Long Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Dīgha Nikāya
Wisdom Publications, 1995
Translation: Maurice Walshe
ISBN 9780861711031
Español
Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha
Siete sūtras del Dīgha Nikāya
The Conscious LibrarySiete sūtras del Dīgha Nikāya
El Colegio de México, 1984
Translation: Carmen Dragonetti
ISBN 9789681202767
Diálogos mayores de Buda
Trotta, 2010
Translation: Carmen Dragonetti y Fernando Tola
ISBN 9788498791631
Other works by Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha
- Tipitaka, the Pali Canon ("Three Baskets") · 25
- Majjhima Nikaya (The Middle Length Discourses) · 25
- Samyutta Nikaya (The Connected Discourses) · 25
- Anguttara Nikaya (The Numerical Discourses) · 25
- Dhammapada (Verses on the Dhamma) · 25
- Sutta Nipata (The Group of Discourses) · 25
- Udana (Inspired Utterances) · 25
- Vinaya Pitaka (The Basket of Discipline) · 25
- The Discourse on Setting the Wheel of the Dhamma in Motion · 25
- Mahaparinibbana Sutta (The Great Discourse on the Final Extinguishment) · 25
- The Sutra in Forty-Two Sections · 150
- The Lotus Sutra (Saddharmapundarika) · 100
- The Diamond Sutra · 300
- The Heart Sutra · 650
- The Lankavatara Sutra · 400
- Itivuttaka (Thus It Was Said) · 25
- Khuddakapatha (The Minor Readings) · 25
- Jataka (Stories of the Buddha's Former Births) · 25
- Satipatthana Sutta (Discourse on the Foundations of Mindfulness) · 25
- Anattalakkhana Sutta (Discourse on the Characteristic of Not-Self) · 25
- Kalama Sutta (Discourse to the Kalamas) · 25
- Pure Land Sutras (Sukhavativyuha) · 150
- Avatamsaka Sutra (Flower Ornament Sutra) · 400
Sources
- Walshe, Maurice (trad.). The Long Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Dīgha Nikāya. Wisdom Publications, Boston, 1995 (DN 14 Mahāpadāna Sutta; DN 16 Mahāparinibbāna Sutta). ISBN 9780861711031.
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