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    The Aṅguttara Nikāya (aṅguttaranikāya; lit. 'Increased-by-One Collection', also translated "Gradual Collection" or "Numerical Discourses") is a Buddhist...
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    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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    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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    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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  • (majjhima) discourses the Samyutta Nikāya, the collection of thematically linked (samyutta) discourses the Anguttara Nikāya, the "gradual collection" (discourses...
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    (saṃyutta-), the "connected" discourses. Anguttara Nikāya (aṅguttara-), the "numerical" discourses. Khuddaka Nikāya, the "minor collection". This includes...
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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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  • (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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    this nikaya has the most detailed explanations of doctrine. Anguttara Nikaya (aṅguttara-) Thousands of short discourses arranged numerically from ones...
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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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    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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    (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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    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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  • Theravada (category Nikaya schools)
    monastic orders were formed in the 19th century, the Amarapura Nikāya and the Rāmañña Nikāya. In Burma, an influential modernist figure was king Mindon Min...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • Pitaka :- one each on the Digha Nikaya, Majjhima Nikaya, Samyutta Nikaya and Anguttara Nikaya; four on Khuddaka Nikaya books; and three on the Abhidhamma...
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  • Numerical Discourses of the Buddha: An anthology of Suttas from the Aṅguttara Nikāya. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. ISBN 0-7425-0405-0. Rhys Davids...
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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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