Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha

This book offers a complete translation of the Majjhima Nikaya, or Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, one of the major collections of texts in the Pali Canon, the authorized scriptures of Theravada Buddhism. This collection--among the oldest records of the historical Buddha''s original teachings--consists of 152 suttas or discourses of middle length, distinguished as such from the longer and ...