The Nikāya Collection
The Nikāya Collection
Currently only the Majjhima Nikāya (Middle Length Discourses) is available. The Dīgha Nikāya (Long Discourses), Saṃyutta Nikāya (Connected Discourses)Aṅguttara Nikāya (Numerical Discourses), and Suttanipāta (Group of Discourses) are still in development.
Majjhima Nikāya (Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha)
Section on The Root of All Things (Mūlapariyāyavagga):
MN 1. Mūlapariyāya Sutta (The Root of All Things) – English | Pāli
MN 2. Sabbāsava Sutta (All the Taints) – English | Pāli
MN 3. Dhammadāyāda Sutta (Heirs in Dhamma) – English | Pāli
MN 4. Bhayabherava Sutta (Fear and Dread) – English | Pāli
MN 5. Anangaṇa Sutta (Without Blemishes) – English | Pāli
MN 6. Ākankheyya Sutta (If a Bhikkhu Should Wish) – English | Pāli
MN 7. Vatthūpama Sutta (The Simile of the Cloth) – English | Pāli
MN 8. Sallekha Sutta (Effacement) – English | Pāli
MN 9. Sammādiṭṭhi Sutta (Right View) – English | Pāli
MN 10. Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta (The Foundations of Mindfulness) – English | Pāli
Section of the Lion’s Roar (Sīhanādavagga):
MN 11. Cūḷasīhanāda Sutta (Shorter Discourse on the Lion’s Roar) – English | Pāli
MN 12. Mahāsīhanāda Sutta (Greater Discourse on the Lion’s Roar) – English | Pāli
MN 13. Mahādukkhakkhandha Sutta (Greater Discourse on the Mass of Suffering) – English | Pāli
MN 14. Cūḷadukkhakkhandha Sutta (Shorter Discourse on the Mass of Suffering) – English | Pāli
MN 15. Anumāna Sutta (Inference) – English | Pāli
MN 16. Cetokhila Sutta (The Wilderness in the Heart) – English | Pāli
MN 17. Vanapattha Sutta (The Jungle Thickets) – English | Pāli
MN 18. Madhupiṇḍika Sutta (The Honeyball) – English | Pāli
MN 19. Dvedhāvitakka Sutta (Two Kinds of Thought) – English | Pāli
Section of Similes (Opammavagga)
MN 20. Vitakkasaṇṭhāna Sutta (The Removal of Distracting Thoughts) – English | Pāli
MN 21. Kakacūpama Sutta (The Simile of the Saw) – English | Pāli
MN 22. Alagaddūpama Sutta (The Simile of the Snake) – English | Pāli
MN 23. Vammika Sutta (The Ant-hill) – English | Pāli
MN 24. Rathavinita Sutta (The Relay Chariots) – English | Pāli
MN 25. Nivāpa Sutta (Bait) – English | Pāli
MN 26. Ariyapariyesana Sutta (The Noble Search) – English | Pāli
MN 27. Cūḷahatthipadopama Sutta (Shorter Discourse on the Simile of the Elephant’s Footprint) – English | Pāli
MN 28. Mahāhatthipadopama Sutta (Greater Discourse on the Simile of the Elephant’s Footprint) – English | Pāli
MN 29. Mahāsāropama Sutta (Greater Discourse on the Simile of the Heartwood) – English | Pāli
MN 30. Cūḷasāropama Sutta (Shorter Discourse on the Simile of the Heartwood) – English | Pāli
Great Section of Pairs (Mahāyamakavagga)
MN 31. Cūḷagosinga Sutta (Shorter Discourse in Gosinga) – English | Pāli
MN 32. Mahāgosinga Sutta (Greater Discourse in Gosinga) – English | Pāli
MN 33. Mahāgopālaka Sutta (Greater Discourse on the Cowherd) – English | Pāli
MN 34. Cūḷagopālaka Sutta (Shorter Discourse on the Cowherd) – English | Pāli
MN 35. Cūḷasaccaka Sutta (Shorter Discourse to Saccaka) – English | Pāli
MN 36. Mahāsaccaka Sutta (Greater Discourse to Saccaka) – English | Pāli
MN 37. Cūḷataṇhāsankhaya Sutta (Shorter Discourse on the Destruction of Craving) – English | Pāli
MN 38. Mahātaṇhāsankhaya Sutta (Greater Discourse on the Destruction of Craving) – English | Pāli
MN 39. Mahā Assapura Sutta (Greater Discourse at Assapura) – English | Pāli
MN 40. Cūḷa Assapura Sutta (Shorter Discourse at Assapura) – English | Pāli
Shorter Section of Pairs (Cūḷayamakavagga)
MN 41. Sāleyyaka Sutta (Discourse to the Brahmins of Sālā) – English | Pāli
MN 42. Verañjaka Sutta (Discourse to the Brahmins of Verañja) – English | Pāli
MN 43. Mahāvedalla Sutta (Discourse on the Greater Series of Questions and Answers) – English | Pāli
MN 44. Cūḷavedalla Sutta (Discourse on the Shorter Series of Questions and Answers) – English | Pāli | Tibetan
MN 45. Cūḷadhammasamādāna Sutta (Shorter Discourse on Ways of Undertaking Things) – English | Pāli
MN 46. Mahādhammasamādāna Sutta (Greater Discourse on Ways of Undertaking Things) – English | Pāli
MN 47. Vīmaṁsaka Sutta (Discourse on the Inquirer) – English | Pāli
MN 48. Kosambiya Sutta (Discourse to the Kosambians) – English | Pāli
MN 49. Brahmanimantanika Sutta (Discourse on the Invitation of a Brahmā) – English | Pāli
MN 50. Māratajjanīya Sutta (Discourse on the Rebuke to Māra) – English | Pāli
Section on Householders (Gahapativagga)
MN 51. Kandaraka Sutta (To Kandaraka) – English | Pāli
MN 52. Aṭṭhakanāgara Sutta (To the One from Aṭṭhakanāgara) – English | Pāli
MN 53. Sekha Sutta (The Disciple in Higher Training) – English | Pāli
MN 54. Potaliya Sutta (To Potaliya) – English | Pāli
MN 55. Jīvaka Sutta (To Jīvaka) – English | Pāli
MN 56. Upāli Sutta (About Upāli) – English | Pāli
MN 57. Kukkuravatika Sutta (The Dog-Duty Ascetic) – English | Pāli
MN 58. Abhayarājakumāra Sutta (To Prince Abhaya) – English | Pāli
MN 59. Bahuvedanīya Sutta (The Many Kinds of Feeling) – English | Pāli
MN 60 Apaṇṇaka Sutta (The Incontrovertible Teaching) – English | Pāli
Section on Monks (Bhikkhuvagga)
MN 61. Ambalaṭṭhikārāhulovāda Sutta (Advice to Rāhula at Ambalaṭṭhikā) – English | Pāli
MN 62. Mahārāhulovāda Sutta (Greater Discourse of Advice to Rāhula) – English | Pāli
MN 63. Cūḷamālunkya Sutta (Shorter Discourse to Mālunkyāputta) – English | Pāli
MN 64. Mahāmālunkya Sutta (Greater Discourse to Mālunkyāputta) – English | Pāli
MN 65. Bhaddāli Sutta (To Bhaddāli) – English | Pāli
MN 66. Laṭukikopama Sutta (The Simile of the Quail) – English | Pāli
MN 67. Cātumā Sutta (At Cātumā) – English | Pāli
MN 68. Naḷakapāna Sutta (At Naḷakapāna) – English | Pāli
MN 69. Gulissāni Sutta (To Gulissāni) – English | Pāli
MN 70. Kīṭāgiri Sutta (At Kīṭāgiri) – English | Pāli
Section on Wanderers (Paribbājakavagga)
MN 71. Tevijjavacchagotta Sutta (To Vacchagotta on the Threefold True Knowledge) – English | Pāli
MN 72. Aggivacchagotta Sutta (To Vacchagotta on Fire) – English | Pāli
MN 73. Mahāvacchagotta Sutta (Greater Discourse to Vacchagotta) – English | Pāli
MN 74. Dīghanakha Sutta (To Dīghanakha) – English | Pāli
MN 75. Māgandiya Sutta (To Māgandiya) – English | Pāli
MN 76. Sandaka Sutta (To Sandaka) – English | Pāli
MN 77. Mahāsakuludāyi Sutta (Greater Discourse to Sakuludāyin) – English | Pāli
MN 78. Samaṇamaṇḍikā Sutta (To Samaṇamaṇḍikāputta) – English | Pāli
MN 79. Cūḷasakuludāyi Sutta (Shorter Discourse to Sakuludāyin) – English | Pāli
MN 80. Vekhanassa Sutta (To Vekhanassa) – English | Pāli
Section on Kings (Rājavagga)
MN 81. Ghaṭīkāra Sutta (To Ghaṭīkāra the Potter) – English | Pāli
MN 82. Raṭṭhapāla Sutta (On Raṭṭhapāla) – English | Pāli
MN 83. Makhādeva Sutta (To King Makhādeva) – English | Pāli
MN 84. Madhurā Sutta (At Madhurā) – English | Pāli
MN 85. Bodhirājakumāra Sutta (To Prince Bodhi) – English | Pāli
MN 86. Angulimāla Sutta (On Angulimāla) – English | Pāli
MN 87. Piyajātika Sutta (The Dear Departed Son) – English | Pāli
MN 88. Bāhitika Sutta (The Cloak) – English | Pāli
MN 89. Dhammacetiya Sutta (The Monuments to the Dhamma) – English | Pāli
MN 90. Kaṇṇakatthala Sutta (At Kaṇṇakatthala) – English | Pāli
About the Translator
Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi is an American Buddhist monk from New York City, born in 1944. He obtained a BA in philosophy from Brooklyn College and a PhD in philosophy from Claremont Graduate School. After completing his university studies he traveled to Sri Lanka, where he received novice ordination in 1972 and full ordination in 1973, both under the leading Sri Lankan scholar-monk, Ven. Balangoda Ananda Maitreya (1896-1998). From 1984 to 2002 he was the editor for the Buddhist Publication Society in Kandy, where he lived for ten years with the senior German monk, Ven. Nyanaponika Thera (1901-1994), at the Forest Hermitage. He returned to the U.S. in 2002. He currently lives and teaches at Chuang Yen Monastery in Carmel, New York. Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi has many important publications to his credit, either as author, translator, or editor. These include The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha (Majjhima Nikāya, 1995), The Connected Discourses of the Buddha (Saṃyutta Nikaya, 2000), and The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha (Aṅguttara Nikāya, 2012). In 2008, together with several of his students, Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi founded Buddhist Global Relief, a nonprofit supporting hunger relief, sustainable agriculture, and education in countries suffering from chronic poverty and malnutrition.
Venerable Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli (1905–60) is the co-translator of Teachings of the Buddha series book The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha. He was born in England and became a monk in Sri Lanka in 1949. During the eleven years he spent as a monk, he translated from Pali into lucid English some of the most difficult texts of Theravada Buddhism, including Buddhaghosa’s Path of Purification.
Maurice Walshe (1911–1998) is the translator of the Teachings of the Buddha series book The Long Discourses of the Buddha. He was born in London in 1911 and was an active Buddhist from 1951 until the end of his life in 1998. He served as the Vice-President of the Buddhist Society and Chair of the English Sangha Trust. A scholar of Pali and German, his other works include Buddhism for Today and translations of the sermons of Meister Eckhart.