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Majjhima Nikaya (The Middle Length Discourses)
Majjhima Nikāya
One hundred and fifty-two middle-length discourses, regarded by many specialists as the doctrinal heart of the canon. They contain the autobiographical accounts of the quest (Ariyapariyesana, Mahasaccaka), the parable of the raft (Alagaddupama), that of the poisoned arrow (Culamalunkya), the instruction on mindfulness of breathing (Anapanasati) and numerous dialogues with disciples, kings and opponents. Their variety shows the Buddha's method: adapting the teaching to the listener.
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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
Majjhima Nikāya (traducción completa)
The Conscious LibraryMajjhima Nikāya (traducción completa)
SuttaCentral, 2018
Translation: Bhikkhu Sujato
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The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikāya
Wisdom Publications, 1995
Translation: Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli y Bhikkhu Bodhi
ISBN 9780861710720
Español
Majjhima Nikâya. Los sermones medios del Buddha
Kairós, 2000
Translation: Amadeo Solé-Leris y Abraham Vélez de Cea
ISBN 9788472453784
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Other works by Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha
- Tipitaka, the Pali Canon ("Three Baskets") · 25
- Digha Nikaya (The Long 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
- 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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