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Samyutta Nikaya (The Connected Discourses) — Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha

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Samyutta Nikaya (The Connected Discourses)

Saṃyutta Nikāya

Buda de pie, arte de Gandhara
bySiddhartha Gautama, the Buddha

Nearly three thousand short discourses grouped by theme in fifty-six sections: the aggregates, the sense bases, dependent origination, the factors of awakening, the four noble truths. It includes the first sermon at Benares (SN 56.11) and is the most systematic source of early doctrine; many of its texts have very close parallels in the Chinese Samyukta Agama.

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Editions and translations · 2

English

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

  • Saṁyutta Nikāya (traducción completa)

    SuttaCentral, 2018

    Translation: Bhikkhu Sujato

    CC0.

  • The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Saṃyutta Nikāya — Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha

    The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Saṃyutta Nikāya

    Wisdom Publications, 2000

    Translation: Bhikkhu Bodhi

    ISBN 9780861713318

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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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