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PUBLISHERS ACKNOWLEDGMENT

For their help in sponsoring the printing of this book, the publisher gratefully acknowledges the generous help of the Hershey Family Foundation and the kind contribution made in loving memory of Gan Chin Hong by his family.

About the Author

Bhikkhu Bodhi is an American Buddhist monk, originally from New York City. He received monastic ordination in 1972 in Sri Lanka, where he lived for over twenty years. He is the author, translator, or editor of many significant publications including A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma, The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha (Majjhima Nikaya), The Connected Discourses of the Buddha (Samyutta Nikaya), and In the Buddhas Words. He is presently working on a complete translation of the Anguttara Nikaya. He lives and teaches at Chuang Yen Monastery in upstate New York. He also teaches at Bodhi Monastery in New Jersey.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

PRIMARY SOURCES

Bodhi, Bhikkhu, trans. The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2000.

Ireland, John D., trans. The Udana and The Itivuttaka: Inspired Utterances of the Buddha and The Buddhas Sayings. Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publication Society, 1997.

anamoli, Bhikkhu, trans. The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya. Edited and revised by Bhikkhu Bodhi. 2nd ed. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2001.

Nyanaponika Thera and Bhikkhu Bodhi, trans. and ed. Numerical Discourses of the Buddha: An Anthology of Suttas from the Anguttara Nikaya. Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press, 1999.

Walshe, Maurice, trans. The Long Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Digha Nikaya. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1995. (Originally published under the title, Thus Have I Heard, 1987.)

OTHER WORKS REFERRED TO:

Adikaram, E.W. Early History of Buddhism in Ceylon. 1946. Reprint. Dehiwala, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Cultural Centre, 1994.

Analayo. Satipatthana: The Direct Path to Realization. Birmingham, UK: Windhorse, 2003.

Choong Mun-keat (Wei-keat). The Fundamental Teachings of Early Buddhism: A Comparative Study based on the Sutranga Portion of the Pali Samyutta-Nikaya and the Chinese Samyuktagama. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2000.

Gethin, Rupert. The Foundations of Buddhism. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Jayatilleke, K.N. Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1963.

Malalasekera, G.P. The Pali Literature of Ceylon. 1928. Reprint. Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publication Society, 1994.

Mann, Joy. Categories of Sutta in the Pali Nikayas and Their Implications for Our Appreciation of the Buddhist Teaching and Literature. Journal of the Pali Text Society, XV: 2987.

Minh Chau, Bhiksu Thich. The Chinese Madhyama Agama and the Pali Majjhima Nikaya. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1991.

anamoli, Bhikkhu. Life of the Buddha according to the Pali Canon. 3rd ed. Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publication Society, 1992.

anamoli, Bhikkhu. Mindfulness of Breathing (Anapanasati). Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publication Society, 1964.

anamoli, Bhikkhu, trans. The Path of Purification (Visuddhimagga). Colombo, Sri Lanka: M.D. Gunasena, 1964.

anananda, Bhikkhu. Concept and Reality in Early Buddhist Thought. Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publication Society, 1972.

Norman, K.R. Pali Literature. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1983.

Nyanaponika Thera and Hellmuth Hecker. Great Disciples of the Buddha. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1997.

Nyanaponika Thera. The Heart of Buddhist Meditation. London: Rider, 1962.

Nyanaponika Thera. The Vision of Dhamma. 2nd ed. Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publication Society, 1994.

Soma Thera. The Way of Mindfulness. The Satipatthana Sutta and Its Commentary . 1941. 4th ed. Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publication Society, 1975.

Pali editions of the Nikayas, as well as translations, textbooks for the study of Pali, Pali grammars, and Pali-English dictionaries can be obtained from the Pali Text Society (PTS). For a catalog, write to 73 Lime Walk, Headington, Oxford OX3 7AD, UK, or e-mail: pts@palitext.com Website: www.palitext.com. In North America PTS books are available from Pariyatti, 867 Larmon Road, Onalaska, WA 98570. Telephone: (360) 978-4998. Fax: (360) 978-4557. Website: www.pariyatti.com.

An important Asian source for English translations from the Nikayas, as well as other works relating to Early Buddhism, is the Buddhist Publication Society (BPS) in Sri Lanka. For a catalog, write to P.O. Box 61, 54 Sangharaja Mawatha, Kandy, Sri Lanka, or e-mail: bps@sltnet.lk.

Valuable online resources for the study of the Nikayas, including alternative translations of many suttas included in this anthology, can be found on the website Access to Insight: www.accesstoinsight.org. An introductory essay offered by this website, Befriending the Suttas by John Bullitt, provides helpful information on how to read the suttas to best advantage.

TABLE OF SOURCES

*: excerpt from a longer sutta

: several suttas combined

Digha Nikaya

Majjhima Nikaya

SUTTA	PTS VOL. & PAGE	TEXT	TEXT TITLE	PAGE
9	I4655	IX,3	a discourse on right view	32335
10	I5563	VIII,8	the four establishments of mindfulness	28190
12*	I7072	X,5(4)	the powers and grounds of self-confidence	41719
13	I8490	VI,3	properly appraising objects of attachment	19399
19*	I11718	X,5(6)	the man desiring our good	420
20	I 11822	VIII,5	the removal of distracting thoughts	27578
21*	I 12627, 129	VIII,6	the mind of loving-kindness	27879
22*	I 13940	X,4(3)	a monk whose crossbar has been lifted	4078
22*	I 14042	X,1(3)	in the Dhamma well expounded	386
26*	I 16067	II,3(1)	seeking the supreme state of sublime peace	5459
26*	I 16773	II,4	the decision to teach	6975
27	I 17584	VII,4	the graduated training	24150
29	I 19297	VII,1(2)	the heartwood of the spiritual life	23337
36*	I 24049	II,3(2)	the realization of the three true knowledges	5967
39*	I 27480	VII,5	the higher stages of training with similes	25053
41	I 28690	V,1(2)	why beings fare as they do after death	15661
47	I 31720	III,4	investigate the teacher himself	9396
54*	I 36466	VI,4(1)	cutting off all affairs	199202
63	I 42632	VII,1(1)	the arrow of birth, aging, and death	23033

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