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Khuddakapatha (The Minor Readings)

Khuddakapāṭha

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bySiddhartha Gautama, the Buddha

A breviary of nine short texts that opens the Khuddaka Nikaya and serves as a recitation manual for novices and lay people: the triple refuge, the ten precepts, the Mangala Sutta on blessings, the Ratana Sutta and the Karaniya Metta Sutta on loving-kindness, still recited daily throughout the Theravada world.

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Authorship note

A collection of the Pali canon (Khuddaka Nikaya). Its discourses are attributed to the Buddha by tradition, but were transmitted orally and written down in Sri Lanka around the first century BCE.

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English

  • The Minor Readings (Khuddakapāṭha) and The Illustrator of Ultimate Meaning

    Pali Text Society, 1960

    Translation: Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli

    ISBN 9780860130239

    Con el comentario Paramatthajotika; reimpresiones de la PTS.

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Sources

  • Norman, K. R. Pāli Literature, Including the Canonical Literature in Prakrit and Sanskrit of All the Hīnayāna Schools of Buddhism. A History of Indian Literature, vol. VII, fasc. 2. Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1983.

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