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Sutta Nipata

The Sutta Collection

(selected passages)

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The Sutta Nipata ("The Sutta Collection"), the fifth book of the Khuddaka Nikaya, consists of 71 short suttas divided into five chapters.

A useful printed translation of the complete Sutta Nipata is K.R. Norman's The Group of Discourses (2nd ed.) (Oxford: Pali Text Society, 2001). Excerpts from the Sutta Nipata also appear in Handful of Leaves (Vol. 4), Thanissaro Bhikkhu, trans. (Santa Cruz: Sati Center for Buddhist Studies, 2003). Some of the passages listed below originally appeared in John Ireland's The Discourse Collection: Selected Texts from the Sutta Nipata, (BPS "Wheel" Publication No. 82).

The braces {} contain the corresponding verse numbers in the original Pali text.


I. Uragavagga — The Snake Chapter [go to top]


II. Culavagga — The Lesser Chapter [go to top]


III. Mahavagga — The Great Chapter [go to top]


IV. Atthaka Vagga — The Octet Chapter [go to top]

See Thanissaro Bhikkhu's Introduction to this vagga.

V. Parayanavagga — The Chapter on the Way to the Far Shore [go to top]

See Thanissaro Bhikkhu's Introduction to this vagga.
Revised: Sunday 2005-07-03
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