Sutta Nipāta
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A poetry collection containing 74 short texts in verse or mixed prose arranged in five chapters, the Suttanipāta contains some of the most popular texts in all of Buddhism, such as the Ratana, Maṅgala, and Mettā Suttas, as well as texts such as the “Rhinoceros Horn Sutta” and the “Way to the Beyond” which are regarded as among the earliest (and most ascetic) of the scriptures.
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The obsession with seeing portions of the Suttanipāta as early is a holdover of the mid-20th century enthusiasm for discovering a “Buddha before Buddhism”, seeking a “truly authentic” teaching before it was institutionalized as rigid doctrine. Somehow, this search always ends up conflated with the racially-charged effort to divest Buddhism of its “cultural” (read “Asian”) elements.
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The Sutta Nipāta contains older and younger material side by side.
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In this series of lectures given at Bodhi Monastery beginning in October 2004, Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi explains some of the most popular and beautiful suttas in the Pāli Canon:
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These are four classes presented by Bhante Sujato on the Pārāyanavagga, a text found in the Sutta Nipāta and possibly one of the earliest portions of the Pāli Canon. Bhante Sujato follows his own translation and covers the framing story of the text and the various questions put to the Buddha.
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