The Aṅguttara Nikāya (aṅguttaranikāya; lit. 'Increased-by-One Collection', also translated "Gradual Collection" or "Numerical Discourses") is a Buddhist...
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Heaven (section According to the Aṅguttara Nikāya)
Heaven, or the heavens, is a common religious cosmological or transcendent supernatural place where beings such as deities, angels, souls, saints, or venerated...
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Sutta Piṭaka (section Anguttara Nikāya)
(saṃyutta-), the "connected" discourses. Anguttara Nikāya (aṅguttara-), the "numerical" discourses. Khuddaka Nikāya, the "minor collection". This includes...
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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...
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(Aṅguttara Nikāya 11.13) Practicing masterfully, or practicing with integrity, means sharing what they have learned with others. The Aṅguttara Nikāya provides...
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(majjhima) discourses the Samyutta Nikāya, the collection of thematically linked (samyutta) discourses the Anguttara Nikāya, the "gradual collection" (discourses...
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this nikaya has the most detailed explanations of doctrine. Anguttara Nikaya (aṅguttara-) Thousands of short discourses arranged numerically from ones...
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scriptural account of the introduction of the Garudammas (the Gotamī Sutta, Aṅguttara Nikāya 8.51, repeated in the later Cullavagga at X.1), the reason the Buddha...
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The Khuddaka Nikāya (lit. 'Minor Collection') is the last of the five Nikāyas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets"...
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Nikāya. Saṃyutta Nikāya at suttacentral.net Samyutta Nikaya suttas in Pali (complete) and English (first 44 chapters) at "Metta Net" Samyutta Nikaya selected...
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(great kingdoms) of Uttarapatha of ancient India mentioned in the Aṅguttara Nikāya. The territory of Vatsa was located to the south of the Gaṅgā river...
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Pāli Majjhima Nikāya. Bhikkhu Bodhi in the introduction to his translation describes the collection as follows: If the Majjhima Nikāya were to be characterised...
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Sarvāstivāda tradition a Pāli discourse found among the Eights of the Aṅguttara-nikāya; the same account is also found in the Theravāda Vinaya preserved in...
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Numerical Discourses of the Buddha: An anthology of Suttas from the Aṅguttara Nikāya. Translated by Nyanaponika, Thera; Bodhi, Bhikkhu. Walnut Creek, Calif...
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and others had forms of monarchy. Ancient Buddhist texts like the Anguttara Nikaya make frequent reference to sixteen great kingdoms and republics that...
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word of uncertain etymology meaning a "wheel', "circle" or "sphere." "Aṅguttara Nikāya 3. Tika Nipāta 8. Anandavaggo". Mettanet – Lanka. Archived from the...
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all beings with an eye for equality). In the two Metta Suttas of the Aṅguttara Nikāya, the Buddha states that those who practice radiating the four immeasurables...
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Counted among the "sixteen great nations" in Buddhist texts like the Anguttara Nikaya, Aṅga also finds mention in the Jain Vyakhyaprajnapti's list of ancient...
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karma; this endless cycle of birth, rebirth, and redeath is Saṃsāra." Aṅguttara Nikāya III.415: "It is "intention" that I call karma; having formed the intention...
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Buddha (Majjhima Nikāya). Translated by Bhikkhu Nāṇamoli, Boston (MA): Wisdom Publications, 1995, Part 1, 22 (25) Aṅguttara Nikāya, VI, 63 (5); III,...
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Kesamutti Sutta (category Anguttara Nikaya)
as the Kālāma Sutta, is a discourse of the Buddha contained in the Aṅguttara Nikaya (3.65) of the Tipiṭaka. It is often cited by those of the Theravada...
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Upajjhatthana Sutta (category Anguttara Nikaya)
Contemplations for Everyone." Pāli Canon Sutta Piṭaka Anguttara Nikāya Majjhima Nikāya Samyutta Nikaya Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta Samaññaphala Sutta Four...
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Dīgha Nikāya (as well as the Saṅgīti Sūtra and Daśottara Sūtra of the Dīrgha Āgama). Tse fu Kuan also argues that certain sutras of the Aṅguttara Nikāya (AN...
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lists of persons and many of the explanations are also found in the Anguttara Nikaya. The Kathāvatthu (Points of Controversy) consists of more than two...
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of the Sutta Piṭaka (for example, Majjhima Nikāya, Digha Nikāya, Saṃyutta Nikāya and the Aṅguttara Nikāya) do not mention the pāramīs as a category (though...
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direct knowledge (abhijñā) and wisdom (pañña). For instance, the Samyutta Nikaya includes a collection of ten discourses (SN 27, Kilesa-saṃyutta) that state...
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contains 30 sūtras in contrast to the 34 suttas of the Theravadin Dīgha Nikāya. A. K. Warder also associates the extant Ekottara Āgama (Taishō Tripiṭaka...
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with Mathura as its capital city. According to the Buddhist text Anguttara Nikaya, Surasena was one of the sixteen Mahajanapadas (lit. 'great realms')...
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occurs in the Brahmanimantaṇika-sutta of the Majjhima-nikāya and in the Kevaḍḍha-sutta of the Dīgha-nikāya, the latter has a parallel in a Dharmaguptaka collection...
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Metta Sutta (category Khuddaka Nikaya)
the benefits of the practice of mettā (Pali) and it is found in the Anguttara Nikaya (AN 11.15). is also referred to as Mettānisamsa Sutta. This article...
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