Library Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha
Traditional attribution
Satipatthana Sutta (Discourse on the Foundations of Mindfulness)
Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta
It presents mindfulness as the “direct path” to purification and lists its four domains: the body, feelings, states of mind and phenomena. It is the textual basis of modern vipassana meditation and, through it, of many of the mindfulness practices widespread in the West today.
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Authorship note
A discourse of the Pali canon (MN 10; versión ampliada en DN 22) 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
Satipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Realization
Windhorse Publications, 2003
Translation: Bhikkhu Anālayo
ISBN 9781899579549
Traducción y estudio del discurso con sus paralelos.
The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha (MN 10)
Wisdom Publications, 1995
Translation: Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli y Bhikkhu Bodhi
ISBN 9780861710720
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
- 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
- Ñāṇamoli, Bhikkhu y Bodhi, Bhikkhu (trads.). The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikāya. Wisdom Publications, Boston, 1995 (MN 26 Ariyapariyesana; MN 36 Mahāsaccaka; MN 22 Alagaddūpama; MN 63 Cūḷamālukya). ISBN 9780861710720.
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