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Sutta Nipata (The Group of Discourses)
Suttanipāta
A collection of seventy-two poems and verse dialogues in five chapters, from the Khuddaka Nikaya. It includes the Metta Sutta on boundless goodwill, the Rhinoceros Sutta ("let one wander alone like the rhinoceros"), the account of the sage Asita's visit to the newborn and the meeting with King Bimbisara. Its ideal is the wandering sage, without possessions or opinions to cling to: an image of Buddhism before monastic institutionalisation.
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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. The Sutta Nipata contains, by philological consensus, some of the oldest strata of the tradition, above all its chapters IV (Atthakavagga) and V (Parayanavagga), which the canon itself cites by name.
Editions and translations
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English
The Suttanipāta: An Ancient Collection of the Buddha's Discourses
Wisdom Publications, 2017
Translation: Bhikkhu Bodhi
ISBN 9781614294290
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The Group of Discourses (Sutta-Nipāta)
Pali Text Society, 1992
Translation: K. R. Norman
ISBN 9780860133032
The Sutta-Nipāta
Curzon Press, 1985
Translation: H. Saddhatissa
ISBN 9780700701810
Reimpresión Routledge, 1995.
Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha
The Sutta-Nipâta (Sacred Books of the East, vol. X, parte 2)
The Conscious LibraryThe Sutta-Nipâta (Sacred Books of the East, vol. X, parte 2)
Clarendon Press, 1881
Translation: V. Fausbøll
Dominio público; facsímil en Internet Archive.
Pali
Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha
Suttanipāta (texto pali y traducción de Sujato)
The Conscious LibrarySuttanipāta (texto pali y traducción de Sujato)
SuttaCentral
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Other works by Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha
- Tipitaka, the Pali Canon ("Three Baskets") · 25
- Digha Nikaya (The Long Discourses) · 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
- 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
- Max Müller, F. (trad. Dhammapada) y Fausbøll, V. (trad. Sutta-Nipāta). The Dhammapada and the Sutta-Nipāta. Sacred Books of the East, vol. X. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1881. Dominio público.
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