Author: T W Rhys Davids
Translator(s)/ Editors(s): T W Rhys Davids
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 990
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788120816688
Description
The Dialogues of the Buddha, constituting, in the Pali text, the Digha and Magghima Nikayas, contains a full exposition of what the early Buddhist considered the teaching of the Buddha to have been.
This 3-volume set is a reprint of translation of the Digha Nikaya, first published in three parts in 1899, 1910 and 1921 respectively. The Digha Nikaya or 'the collection of long doctrinary lectures' of the Buddha is one of the five Nikayas or collections belonging to the Suttapitaka or 'the basket of Buddha's discourses' which is one of three major collections of Pali Buddhist texts, the other two being Vinayapitaka and Abhidhammapitaka. It consists of 34 long suttas of which each individual one treats intensively some particular point or points of the doctrine.
The Buddha, like other Indian teachers of his time, taught by conversation. He followed the literary habit of his time by embodying his doctrine in set phrases, sutras, on which he enlarged on different occasions in different ways. When the Buddha died these sayings were collected together by his disciples into the great Nikayas of which the present one is first.
Contents
Vol. I
Preface
Note on the probable age of the Dialogues
Note on this version
Abbreviations
CHAPTER 1
Brahma-Gala Suttanta
Introduction Text
CHAPTER 2
Samanna-Phala Suttanta
Introduction
CHAPTER 3
Ambattha Suttanta
CHAPTER 4
Sonadanda Suttanta
CHAPTER 5
Kotadanta Suttanta
CHAPTER 6
Mahali Suttanta
CHAPTER 7
Galiya Suttanta
CHAPTER 8
Kassapa-Sihanada Suttanta
CHAPTER 9
Potthapada Suttanta
CHAPTER 10
Subha Suttanta
CHAPTER 11
Kevaddha Suttanta
CHAPTER 12
Lohikka Suttanta
CHAPTER 13
Tevigga Suttanta
Index of Subjects and Proper Names
Index of Pali words
Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets adopted for the Translations of the Sacred Books of the Buddhists
Vol. II
CHAPTER 14
Mahapadana Suttanta
CHAPTER 15
Maha Nidana Suttanta
CHAPTER 16
Maha Parinibbana Suttanta
CHAPTER 17
Maha Sudassana Suttanta
CHAPTER 18
Jana-Vasabha Suttanta
CHAPTER 19
Maha-Govinda Suttanta
CHAPTER 20
Maha-Samaya Suttanta
CHAPTER 21
Sakka-Panha Suttanta
CHAPTER 22
Maha Satipatthana Suttanta
CHAPTER 23
Payasi Suttanta
Index of Principal Subjects and Proper names
Index of Pali Words
Vol. III
CHAPTER 24
Patika Suttanta
CHAPTER 25
Udumbarika-Sihanada Suttanta
CHAPTER 26
Cakkavatti-Sihanada Suttanta
CHAPTER 27
Agganna Suttanta
(A Book of Genesis)
CHAPTER 28
Sampasadaniya Suttanta
(The Faith that Satisfied)
CHAPTER 29
Pasadika Suttanta
(The Delectable Discourse
CHAPTER 30
Lakkhana Suttanta
CHAPTER 31
Sigalovada Suttanta
CHAPTER 32
Atanatiya Suttanta
CHAPTER 33
Sangiti Suttanta
CHAPTER 34
Dasuttara Suttanta
(The Tenfold Series)
Appendix
Names in Atanatiya Suttanta
Indexes
I. Names and Subjects
II. Pali Words Discusse