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The Dīgha Nikāya ("Collection of Long Discourses") is a Buddhist scriptures collection, the first of the five Nikāyas, or collections, in the Sutta Piṭaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that compose the Pali Tipiṭaka of Theravada Buddhism. Some of the most commonly referenced suttas from the Digha Nikaya include the Mahāparinibbāṇa Sutta (DN 16), which describes the final days and passing of the Buddha, the Sigālovāda Sutta (DN 31) in which the Buddha discusses ethics and practices for lay followers, and the Samaññaphala Sutta (DN 2) and Brahmajāla Sutta (DN 1) which describe and compare the point of view of the Buddha and other ascetics in India about the universe and time (past, present, and future); and the Poṭṭhapāda (DN 9) Sutta, which describes the benefits and practice of Samatha meditation.

Structure and contents edit

The Digha Nikaya consists of 34[1] discourses, broken into three groups:

  • Silakkhandha-vagga—The Division Concerning Morality (suttas 1-13);[1] named after a tract on monks' morality that occurs in each of its suttas (in theory; in practice it is not written out in full in all of them); in most of them it leads on to the jhānas (the main attainments of samatha meditation), the cultivation of psychic powers and attaining the fruit of an Arahant.
  • Maha-vagga—The Great Division (suttas 14-23)[1]
  • Patika-vagga—The Patika Division (suttas 24-34)[1]

Suttas of the Digha Nikaya edit

Sutta number Pali title English title Description
DN 1 Brahmajāla Sutta[2] The All - embracing Net of views [2] Mainly concerned with 62 types of wrong view
DN 2 Sāmaññaphala Sutta[3] The Fruits of the Contemplative Life King Ajātasattu of Magadha asks the Buddha about the benefits in this life of being a samana ("recluse" or "renunciant"); the Buddha's reply is in terms of becoming an arahant
DN 3 Ambaṭṭha Sutta[4]   Ambattha the Brahmin is sent by his teacher to find whether the Buddha possesses the 32 bodily marks, but on arrival he is rude to the Buddha on grounds of descent (caste); the Buddha responds that he is actually higher born than Ambattha by social convention, but that he himself considers those fulfilled in conduct and wisdom as higher.
DN 4 Soṇadaṇḍanta Sutta)[5]   The Buddha asks Sonadanda the Brahmin what are the qualities that make a Brahmin; Sonadanda gives five, but the Buddha asks if any can be omitted and argues him down to two: morality and wisdom.
DN 5 Kūṭadanta Sutta   Kutadanta the Brahmin asks the Buddha how to perform a sacrifice; the Buddha replies by telling of one of his past lives, as chaplain to a king, where they performed a sacrifice which consisted of making offerings, with no animals killed.
DN 6 Mahāli Sutta   In reply to a question as to why a certain monk sees divine sights but does not hear divine sounds, the Buddha explains that it is because of the way he has directed his meditation.
DN 7 Jāliya Sutta   Asked by two Brahmins whether the soul and the body are the same or different, the Buddha describes the path to wisdom, and asks whether one who has fulfilled it would bother with such questions.
DN 8 Kassapa Sīhanāda Sutta
(alt:Maha Sīhanāda or Sīhanāda Sutta) 		  The word sihanada literally means 'lion's roar': this discourse is concerned with asceticism.
DN 9 Poṭṭhapāda Sutta[6] About Potthapada Asked about the cause of the arising of saññā, usually translated as perception, the Buddha says it is through training; he explains the path as above up to the jhanas and the arising of their perceptions, and then continues with the first three formless attainments; the sutta then moves on to other topics, the self and the unanswered questions.
DN 10 Subha Sutta   Ananda describes the path taught by the Buddha.
DN 11 Kevaṭṭa Sutta
alt: Kevaḍḍha Sutta 		To Kevatta Kevaddha asks the Buddha why he does not gain disciples by working miracles; the Buddha explains that people would simply dismiss this as magic and that the real miracle is the training of his followers.
DN 12 Lohicca Sutta[7] To Lohicca On good and bad teachers.
DN 13 Tevijja Sutta   Asked about the path to union with Brahma, the Buddha explains it in terms of the Buddhist path, but ending with the four brahmaviharas; the abbreviated way the text is written out makes it unclear how much of the path comes before this; Richard Gombrich has argued that the Buddha was meaning union with Brahma as synonymous with nirvana.[8]
DN 14 Mahāpadāna Sutta   Tells the story of a past Buddha up to shortly after his enlightenment; the story is similar to that of Gautama Buddha.
DN 15 Mahanidāna Sutta The Great Causes Discourse On dependent origination.
DN 16 Mahaparinibbāna Sutta The Last Days of the Buddha Story of the last few months of the Buddha's life, his death and funeral, and the distribution of his relics.
DN 17 Mahasudassana Sutta   Story of one of the Buddha's past lives as a king. The description of his palace has close verbal similarities to that of the Pure Land, and Rupert Gethin has suggested this as a precursor.[9]
DN 18 Janavasabha Sutta   King Bimbisara of Magadha, reborn as the god Janavasabha, tells the Buddha that his teaching has resulted in increased numbers of people being reborn as gods.
DN 19 Maha-Govinda Sutta   Story of a past life of the Buddha.
DN 20 Mahasamaya Sutta The Great Meeting Long versified list of gods coming to honour the Buddha.
DN 21 Sakkapañha Sutta Sakka's Questions The Buddha answers questions from Sakka, ruler of the gods (a Buddhist version of Indra).
DN 22 Mahasatipaṭṭhāna Sutta The Great Discourse on the Foundations of Mindfulness The basis for one of the Burmese vipassana meditation traditions; many people have it read or recited to them on their deathbeds.[10]
DN 23 Pāyāsi Sutta
alt: Payasi Rājañña Sutta 		  Dialogue between the skeptical Prince Payasi and a monk.
DN 24 Pāṭika Sutta
alt:Pāthika Sutta 		  A monk has left the order because he says the Buddha does not work miracles; most of the sutta is taken up with accounts of miracles the Buddha has worked
DN 25 Udumbarika Sihanada Sutta
alt: Udumbarika Sutta 		  Another discourse on asceticism.
DN 26 Cakkavatti Sihanada Sutta The Wheel-turning Emperor Story of humanity's decline from a golden age in the past, with a prophecy of its eventual return.
DN 27 Aggañña Sutta   Another story of humanity's decline.
DN 28 Sampasādaniya Sutta   Sariputta praises the Buddha.
DN 29 Pāsādika Sutta   The Buddha's response to the news of the death of his rival, the founder of Jainism.
DN 30 Lakkhaṇa Sutta   Explains the actions of the Buddha in his previous lives leading to his 32 bodily marks; thus it describes practices of a bodhisattva (perhaps the earliest such description).
DN 31 Sigalovada Sutta
alt:Singala Sutta, Singalaka Sutta or Sigala Sutta 		To Sigala/The Layperson's Code of Discipline Traditionally regarded as the lay vinaya.
DN 32 Āṭānāṭiya Sutta The Discourse on Atanatiya Gods give the Buddha a poem for his followers, male and female, monastic and lay, to recite for protection from evil spirits; it sets up a mandala or circle of protection and a version of this sutta is classified as a tantra in Tibet and Japan.[11]
DN 33 Saṅgāti Sutta   L. S. Cousins has tentatively suggested[12] that this was the first sutta created as a literary text, at the Second Council, his theory being that sutta was originally a pattern of teaching rather than a body of literature; it is taught by Sariputta at the Buddha's request, and gives lists arranged numerically from ones to tens (cf. Anguttara Nikaya); a version of this belonging to another school was used as the basis for one of the books of their Abhidharma Pitaka.
DN 34 Dasuttara Sutta[13]   Similar to the preceding sutta but with a fixed format; there are ten categories, and each number has one list in each; this material is also used in the Patisambhidamagga.

Correspondence with the Dīrgha Āgama edit

The Digha Nikaya corresponds to the Dīrgha Āgama found in the Sutta Piṭakas of various Sanskritic early Buddhist schools, fragments of which survive in Sanskrit. A complete version of the Dīrgha Āgama of the Dharmagupta school survives in Chinese translation by the name Cháng Ahánjīng (ch:長阿含經). It contains 30 sūtras in contrast to the 34 suttas of the Theravadin Dīgha Nikāya. In addition, portions of the Sarvāstivādin school's Dīrgha Āgama survive in Sanskrit and in Tibetan translation.[14]

Translations edit

Complete Translations:

  • Dīgha Nikāya | The Long Collection by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
  • Dialogues of the Buddha, tr T. W. and C. A. F. Rhys Davids, 1899–1921, 3 volumes, Pali Text Society, Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3.
  • Thus Have I Heard: the Long Discourses of the Buddha, tr Maurice Walshe, Wisdom Pubs, 1987; later reissued under the original subtitle; ISBN 0-86171-103-3
  • The Long Discourses, tr Bhikkhu Sujato, 2018, published online at SuttaCentral and released into the public domain.

Selections:

  • The Buddha's Philosophy of Man, Rhys Davids tr, rev Trevor Ling, Everyman, out of print; 10 suttas including 2, 16, 22, 31
  • Long Discourses of the Buddha, tr Mrs A. A. G. Bennett, Bombay, 1964; 1-16
  • Ten Suttas from Digha Nikaya, Burma Pitaka Association, Rangoon, 1984; 1, 2, 9, 15, 16, 22, 26, 28-9, 31

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ a b c d "Digha Nikaya: The Long Discourses". www.accesstoinsight.org. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
  2. ^ a b "Brahmajāla Sutta: The All-embracing Net of Views". www.accesstoinsight.org. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
  3. ^ "English translation of DN 2, "The Fruits of Recluseship"". Sutta Central. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
  4. ^ "English translation of DN 3, "To Ambaṭṭha"". Sutta Central. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
  5. ^ "English translation of DN 4, "To Soṇadaṇḍa"". Sutta Central. Retrieved 2015-12-27.
  6. ^ "English translation of DN 9, "To Poṭṭhapada"". Sutta Central. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
  7. ^ "English translation of DN 12, "Lohicca"". Sutta Central. Retrieved 2015-12-15.
  8. ^ Gombrich, Richard (1997), How Buddhism Began: The Conditioned Genesis of the Early Teachings, New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd., ISBN 81-215-0812-6
  9. ^ Journal of the Pali Text Society, volume XXVIII
  10. ^ Malalasekera, Dictionary of Pali Proper Names, volume II, page 564
  11. ^ Skilling, Mahasutras, volume II, parts I & II, 1997, Pali Text Society, Bristol, pages 84n, 553ff, 617ff
  12. ^ Pali oral literature, in Buddhist Studies, ed Denwood & Piatigorski, Curzon, London, 1982/3
  13. ^ "DN34 Dasuttara Sutta: Expanding Decades". www.palicanon.org. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
  14. ^ A Dictionary of Buddhism, by Damien Keown, Oxford University Press: 2004

External links edit

 
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The Digha Nikaya Collection of Long Discourses is a Buddhist scriptures collection the first of the five Nikayas or collections in the Sutta Piṭaka which is one of the three baskets that compose the Pali Tipiṭaka of Theravada Buddhism Some of the most commonly referenced suttas from the Digha Nikaya include the Mahaparinibbaṇa Sutta DN 16 which describes the final days and passing of the Buddha the Sigalovada Sutta DN 31 in which the Buddha discusses ethics and practices for lay followers and the Samannaphala Sutta DN 2 and Brahmajala Sutta DN 1 which describe and compare the point of view of the Buddha and other ascetics in India about the universe and time past present and future and the Poṭṭhapada DN 9 Sutta which describes the benefits and practice of Samatha meditation Contents 1 Structure and contents 2 Suttas of the Digha Nikaya 3 Correspondence with the Dirgha Agama 4 Translations 5 See also 6 Notes 7 External linksStructure and contents editThe Digha Nikaya consists of 34 1 discourses broken into three groups Silakkhandha vagga The Division Concerning Morality suttas 1 13 1 named after a tract on monks morality that occurs in each of its suttas in theory in practice it is not written out in full in all of them in most of them it leads on to the jhanas the main attainments of samatha meditation the cultivation of psychic powers and attaining the fruit of an Arahant Maha vagga The Great Division suttas 14 23 1 Patika vagga The Patika Division suttas 24 34 1 Suttas of the Digha Nikaya editSutta number Pali title English title DescriptionDN 1 Brahmajala Sutta 2 The All embracing Net of views 2 Mainly concerned with 62 types of wrong viewDN 2 Samannaphala Sutta 3 The Fruits of the Contemplative Life King Ajatasattu of Magadha asks the Buddha about the benefits in this life of being a samana recluse or renunciant the Buddha s reply is in terms of becoming an arahantDN 3 Ambaṭṭha Sutta 4 Ambattha the Brahmin is sent by his teacher to find whether the Buddha possesses the 32 bodily marks but on arrival he is rude to the Buddha on grounds of descent caste the Buddha responds that he is actually higher born than Ambattha by social convention but that he himself considers those fulfilled in conduct and wisdom as higher DN 4 Soṇadaṇḍanta Sutta 5 The Buddha asks Sonadanda the Brahmin what are the qualities that make a Brahmin Sonadanda gives five but the Buddha asks if any can be omitted and argues him down to two morality and wisdom DN 5 Kuṭadanta Sutta Kutadanta the Brahmin asks the Buddha how to perform a sacrifice the Buddha replies by telling of one of his past lives as chaplain to a king where they performed a sacrifice which consisted of making offerings with no animals killed DN 6 Mahali Sutta In reply to a question as to why a certain monk sees divine sights but does not hear divine sounds the Buddha explains that it is because of the way he has directed his meditation DN 7 Jaliya Sutta Asked by two Brahmins whether the soul and the body are the same or different the Buddha describes the path to wisdom and asks whether one who has fulfilled it would bother with such questions DN 8 Kassapa Sihanada Sutta alt Maha Sihanada or Sihanada Sutta The word sihanada literally means lion s roar this discourse is concerned with asceticism DN 9 Poṭṭhapada Sutta 6 About Potthapada Asked about the cause of the arising of sanna usually translated as perception the Buddha says it is through training he explains the path as above up to the jhanas and the arising of their perceptions and then continues with the first three formless attainments the sutta then moves on to other topics the self and the unanswered questions DN 10 Subha Sutta Ananda describes the path taught by the Buddha DN 11 Kevaṭṭa Sutta alt Kevaḍḍha Sutta To Kevatta Kevaddha asks the Buddha why he does not gain disciples by working miracles the Buddha explains that people would simply dismiss this as magic and that the real miracle is the training of his followers DN 12 Lohicca Sutta 7 To Lohicca On good and bad teachers DN 13 Tevijja Sutta Asked about the path to union with Brahma the Buddha explains it in terms of the Buddhist path but ending with the four brahmaviharas the abbreviated way the text is written out makes it unclear how much of the path comes before this Richard Gombrich has argued that the Buddha was meaning union with Brahma as synonymous with nirvana 8 DN 14 Mahapadana Sutta Tells the story of a past Buddha up to shortly after his enlightenment the story is similar to that of Gautama Buddha DN 15 Mahanidana Sutta The Great Causes Discourse On dependent origination DN 16 Mahaparinibbana Sutta The Last Days of the Buddha Story of the last few months of the Buddha s life his death and funeral and the distribution of his relics DN 17 Mahasudassana Sutta Story of one of the Buddha s past lives as a king The description of his palace has close verbal similarities to that of the Pure Land and Rupert Gethin has suggested this as a precursor 9 DN 18 Janavasabha Sutta King Bimbisara of Magadha reborn as the god Janavasabha tells the Buddha that his teaching has resulted in increased numbers of people being reborn as gods DN 19 Maha Govinda Sutta Story of a past life of the Buddha DN 20 Mahasamaya Sutta The Great Meeting Long versified list of gods coming to honour the Buddha DN 21 Sakkapanha Sutta Sakka s Questions The Buddha answers questions from Sakka ruler of the gods a Buddhist version of Indra DN 22 Mahasatipaṭṭhana Sutta The Great Discourse on the Foundations of Mindfulness The basis for one of the Burmese vipassana meditation traditions many people have it read or recited to them on their deathbeds 10 DN 23 Payasi Sutta alt Payasi Rajanna Sutta Dialogue between the skeptical Prince Payasi and a monk DN 24 Paṭika Sutta alt Pathika Sutta A monk has left the order because he says the Buddha does not work miracles most of the sutta is taken up with accounts of miracles the Buddha has workedDN 25 Udumbarika Sihanada Sutta alt Udumbarika Sutta Another discourse on asceticism DN 26 Cakkavatti Sihanada Sutta The Wheel turning Emperor Story of humanity s decline from a golden age in the past with a prophecy of its eventual return DN 27 Agganna Sutta Another story of humanity s decline DN 28 Sampasadaniya Sutta Sariputta praises the Buddha DN 29 Pasadika Sutta The Buddha s response to the news of the death of his rival the founder of Jainism DN 30 Lakkhaṇa Sutta Explains the actions of the Buddha in his previous lives leading to his 32 bodily marks thus it describes practices of a bodhisattva perhaps the earliest such description DN 31 Sigalovada Sutta alt Singala Sutta Singalaka Sutta or Sigala Sutta To Sigala The Layperson s Code of Discipline Traditionally regarded as the lay vinaya DN 32 Aṭanaṭiya Sutta The Discourse on Atanatiya Gods give the Buddha a poem for his followers male and female monastic and lay to recite for protection from evil spirits it sets up a mandala or circle of protection and a version of this sutta is classified as a tantra in Tibet and Japan 11 DN 33 Saṅgati Sutta L S Cousins has tentatively suggested 12 that this was the first sutta created as a literary text at the Second Council his theory being that sutta was originally a pattern of teaching rather than a body of literature it is taught by Sariputta at the Buddha s request and gives lists arranged numerically from ones to tens cf Anguttara Nikaya a version of this belonging to another school was used as the basis for one of the books of their Abhidharma Pitaka DN 34 Dasuttara Sutta 13 Similar to the preceding sutta but with a fixed format there are ten categories and each number has one list in each this material is also used in the Patisambhidamagga Correspondence with the Dirgha Agama editThe Digha Nikaya corresponds to the Dirgha Agama found in the Sutta Piṭakas of various Sanskritic early Buddhist schools fragments of which survive in Sanskrit A complete version of the Dirgha Agama of the Dharmagupta school survives in Chinese translation by the name Chang Ahanjing ch 長阿含經 It contains 30 sutras in contrast to the 34 suttas of the Theravadin Digha Nikaya In addition portions of the Sarvastivadin school s Dirgha Agama survive in Sanskrit and in Tibetan translation 14 Translations editComplete Translations Digha Nikaya The Long Collection by Ṭhanissaro Bhikkhu Dialogues of the Buddha tr T W and C A F Rhys Davids 1899 1921 3 volumes Pali Text Society Vol 1 Vol 2 Vol 3 Thus Have I Heard the Long Discourses of the Buddha tr Maurice Walshe Wisdom Pubs 1987 later reissued under the original subtitle ISBN 0 86171 103 3 The Long Discourses tr Bhikkhu Sujato 2018 published online at SuttaCentral and released into the public domain Selections The Buddha s Philosophy of Man Rhys Davids tr rev Trevor Ling Everyman out of print 10 suttas including 2 16 22 31 Long Discourses of the Buddha tr Mrs A A G Bennett Bombay 1964 1 16 Ten Suttas from Digha Nikaya Burma Pitaka Association Rangoon 1984 1 2 9 15 16 22 26 28 9 31See also editThe other Nikayas of the Sutta Piṭaka in their traditional order Majjhima Nikaya Samyutta Nikaya Anguttara Nikaya Khuddaka Nikaya Pali Canon Early Buddhist texts List of suttas in the Pali CanonNotes edit a b c d Digha Nikaya The Long Discourses www accesstoinsight org Retrieved 2015 12 12 a b Brahmajala Sutta The All embracing Net of Views www accesstoinsight org Retrieved 2015 12 12 English translation of DN 2 The Fruits of Recluseship Sutta Central Retrieved 2015 12 15 English translation of DN 3 To Ambaṭṭha Sutta Central Retrieved 2015 12 15 English translation of DN 4 To Soṇadaṇḍa Sutta Central Retrieved 2015 12 27 English translation of DN 9 To Poṭṭhapada Sutta Central Retrieved 2015 12 15 English translation of DN 12 Lohicca Sutta Central Retrieved 2015 12 15 Gombrich Richard 1997 How Buddhism Began The Conditioned Genesis of the Early Teachings New Delhi Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt Ltd ISBN 81 215 0812 6 Journal of the Pali Text Society volume XXVIII Malalasekera Dictionary of Pali Proper Names volume II page 564 Skilling Mahasutras volume II parts I amp II 1997 Pali Text Society Bristol pages 84n 553ff 617ff Pali oral literature in Buddhist Studies ed Denwood amp Piatigorski Curzon London 1982 3 DN34 Dasuttara Sutta Expanding Decades www palicanon org Retrieved 2015 12 12 A Dictionary of Buddhism by Damien Keown Oxford University Press 2004External links edit nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to Digha Nikaya Digha Nikaya in Pali and English at metta lk A Study of the Digha Nikaya of the Suttapitaka Digha Nikaya in English at accesstoinsight org Free listing of all the Suttas Alpha by sutta title Digha Nikaya in English Nepali and Nepalbhasha Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Digha Nikaya amp oldid 1175321726, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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