The ' () is a Buddhist scripture, a sutta collection in the Khuddaka Nikaya, part of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism.

Sections

The ''Sutta Nipāta'' is divided into five sections: Uraga Vagga ("The Chapter on the Serpent") Cūla Vagga ("The Minor Chapter") Mahā Vagga ("The Great Chapter") Atthaka Vagga "The Chapter of Octads" Parayana Vagga ("The Chapter on the Way Beyond")

Context

Some scholars believe that it describes the oldest of all Buddhist practices. Others such as Bhikkhu Bodhi and

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agree that it contains much early material. In the Chinese Buddhist canon, a version of the Aṭṭhakavagga has survived. Fragmentary materials from a Sanskrit version of the Nipata also survive. The Niddesa, a commentary in two parts on the contents of the Atthaka Vagga and portions of the Parayana Vagga, is included in the Pali Canon as a book of the

Khuddaka Nikāya The Khuddaka Nikāya () is the last of the five nikayas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that compose the Pali Tipitaka, the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism. This nikaya consists of fifteen (Thailand) ...

. This commentary is traditionally attributed to Śāriputra, and its presence in the canon is regarded as evidence of the relatively early composition of the Sutta Nipata.

English Translations

* ''The Silent Sages of Old'', ''Suttas from the Suttanipāta'' '' by Ven. Ñāṇadīpa Mahāthera'', 2018 * Tr V. Fausbøll, in '' Sacred Books of the East'', volume X, Clarendon/Oxford, 1881; reprinted by Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi (?and by Dover, New York) * ''Buddha’s Teachings being the Sutta-nipāta or Discourse-Collection'', tr.

Robert Chalmers Robert Chalmers, 1st Baron Chalmers, (18 August 1858 – 17 November 1938) was a British civil servant, and a Pali and Buddhist scholar. In later life, he served as the Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge. Background and education Chalmers was ...

Delhi, India, Motilal Barnasidass Publishers, 1932 (reprint in 1997), 300 p., .''Buddha’s Teachings being the Sutta-nipāta or Discourse-Collection'', read online

. * Woven cadences of early Buddhists, transl. by E. M. Hare. Sacred Books of the Buddhists vol.15, repr. - London: Oxford University Press, 194
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(PDF 11.4 MB) * ''The Group of Discourses'', tr

, 1984, Pali Text Society

Bristol; the original edition included alternative translations by I. B. Horner & Walpola Rahula; these are currently available in the paperback edition under the title ''The Rhinoceros Horn and Other Early Buddhist Poems''; the current edition under the original title omits these, but includes instead the translator's notes, not included in the paperback * Tr

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, Curzon, London/Humanities Press, New York, 1985 * Tr N. A. Jayawickrama, University of Kelaniya, 2001 * ''The Discourse Collection Selected Texts from the Sutta Nipata'', by John D. Ireland, Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 2013. Available for free downloa
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German Translation

* Tr Nyanaponika, Verlag Beyerlein & Steinschulte, D 95236 Stammbach, Germany, 3. Auflage 1996

References

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External links

Sutta Nipata
( Access to Insight)
Sutta Nipata Lectures
taught by Bhikkhu Bodhi
Translations at dhammatalks.orgSuttanipāta - Anthology of Discourses at suttacentral.net
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