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Traditional attribution
Anattalakkhana Sutta (Discourse on the Characteristic of Not-Self)
Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta
According to tradition, the Buddha's second teaching, given at Isipatana to the five ascetics who had just heard the first sermon. It examines form, feeling, perception, formations and consciousness and concludes that none is a self, since all are impermanent and cause suffering; on hearing it, the texts say, the five attained liberation.
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Authorship note
A discourse of the Pali canon (SN 22.59; también en el Mahavagga del Vinaya) attributed to the Buddha; transmitted orally and written down around the first century BCE, with parallels in the Chinese Agamas.
Editions and translations
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English
The Connected Discourses of the Buddha (SN 22.59)
Wisdom Publications, 2000
Translation: Bhikkhu Bodhi
ISBN 9780861713318
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
- 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
- Kalama Sutta (Discourse to the Kalamas) · 25
- Pure Land Sutras (Sukhavativyuha) · 150
- Avatamsaka Sutra (Flower Ornament Sutra) · 400
Sources
- Bodhi, Bhikkhu (trad.). The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Saṃyutta Nikāya. Wisdom Publications, Boston, 2000 (SN 56.11 Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta). ISBN 9780861713318.
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