nikaya

Author: Khemarato Bhikkhu

_authors/bodhi.md

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ After completing his university studies, he immediately came to Sri Lanka where
 
 He was appointed editor of the [Buddhist Publication Society](/publishers/bps) (in Sri Lanka) in 1984 and its president in 1988.
 
-Ven. Bodhi has many important publications to his credit, either as author, translator, or editor, including  *the Majjhima Nikaya*  (co-translated with Ven. Bhikkhu Nanamoli) (1995), *The Connected Discourses of the Buddha* (2000), and [*In the Buddha’s Words*](/content/monographs/in-the-buddhas-words_bodhi) (2005).
+Ven. Bodhi has many important publications to his credit, either as author, translator, or editor, including  *the Majjhima Nikāya*  (co-translated with Ven. Bhikkhu Nanamoli) (1995), *The Connected Discourses of the Buddha* (2000), and [*In the Buddha’s Words*](/content/monographs/in-the-buddhas-words_bodhi) (2005).
 
 In May 2000 he gave [the keynote address](/content/booklets/buddha-and-his-dhamma_bodhi) at the United Nations at its first official celebration of Vesak. He returned to the U.S. in 2002 and currently resides at [Chuang Yen Monastery](https://www.baus.org/){:target="_blank"} and teaches there and at [Bodhi Monastery](https://bodhimonastery.org/){:target="_blank"}.
 

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 pages: "183--217"
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-> To approach what, for the want of a better term, we call the mythic portions of the Nikayas with the attitude that such categories as "mythic symbol" and "literally true" are absolutely opposed is to adopt an attitude that is out of time and place. It seems to me that in some measure we must allow **both** a literal **and** a psychological interpretation. Both are there in the texts.
+> To approach what, for the want of a better term, we call the mythic portions of the Nikāyas with the attitude that such categories as "mythic symbol" and "literally true" are absolutely opposed is to adopt an attitude that is out of time and place. It seems to me that in some measure we must allow **both** a literal **and** a psychological interpretation. Both are there in the texts.

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 > Since July 20, 1985, a new higher ordination (upasampadā) movement
 has emerged at the Dambulla Buddhist temple in Sri Lanka. The architect of this movement, a Sinhala Buddhist monk named Inamaluwe Sumangala, challenges the contemporary Buddhist monastic practice of ordaining monks on the basis of their castes
 
-> On the face of it, the movement seems to involve a debate about the irrelevance of caste to higher ordination between Sumangala and the monks of the Asgiriya temple, one of several chapters of the Siyam Nikaya that ordains only high-caste Buddhist males. However, the challenge constituted by the new ordination can be seen as part of a broader attempt on Sumangala's part to redefine monastic identity
+> On the face of it, the movement seems to involve a debate about the irrelevance of caste to higher ordination between Sumangala and the monks of the Asgiriya temple, one of several chapters of the Siyam Nikāya that ordains only high-caste Buddhist males. However, the challenge constituted by the new ordination can be seen as part of a broader attempt on Sumangala's part to redefine monastic identity
 

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 > ‘they master one self, tame one self, bring one self to nibbana.’ That sounds as if people who are supposed to realize their lack of self are being credited with three.
 
-On what an odd expression in the Digha Nikaya can tell us about the construction of the Pāli Suttas.
+On what an odd expression in the Digha Nikāya can tell us about the construction of the Pāli Suttas.

_content/av/an-course_bodhi.md

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-title: "Anguttara Nikaya Course"
+title: "Anguttara Nikāya Course"
 authors:
   - bodhi
 subcat: course

_content/av/cultivating-wisdom_bodhi.md

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 minutes: 2903
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-A series of 43 lectures on the stages of liberation and the gradual dawning of insight as presented in the Majjhima Nikaya.
+A series of 43 lectures on the stages of liberation and the gradual dawning of insight as presented in the Majjhima Nikāya.

_content/av/deepening-perspective_bodhi.md

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-A series of six lectures on the faults of *saṃsāra* as presented in Majjhima Nikaya suttas 13, 54, 75, and 82 and in [the fifteenth saṃyutta of the SN](https://bodhimonastery.org/sn-15-anamataggasa%E1%B9%83yutta.html){:target="_blank" ga-event-value="0.3"}.
+A series of six lectures on the faults of *saṃsāra* as presented in Majjhima Nikāya suttas 13, 54, 75, and 82 and in [the fifteenth saṃyutta of the SN](https://bodhimonastery.org/sn-15-anamataggasa%E1%B9%83yutta.html){:target="_blank" ga-event-value="0.3"}.
 

_content/av/ethical-life_bodhi.md

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 minutes: 575
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-A series of seven lectures on Buddhist ethics in the Majjhima Nikaya, covering  MN 46, 57, [135](https://bodhimonastery.org/culakammavibhanga-sutta-majjhima-nikaya-no-135.html){:target="_blank" ga-event-value="0.3"}, 41, 120, 61, and 21.
+A series of seven lectures on Buddhist ethics in the Majjhima Nikāya, covering  MN 46, 57, [135](https://bodhimonastery.org/culakammavibhanga-sutta-majjhima-nikaya-no-135.html){:target="_blank" ga-event-value="0.3"}, 41, 120, 61, and 21.

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-A series of 32 lectures on a further selection of suttas from the Majjhima Nikaya.
+A series of 32 lectures on a further selection of suttas from the Majjhima Nikāya.
 
 
 

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 minutes: 60
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-The last sutta in the Majjhima Nikaya stumps Bhikkhu Bodhi.
+The last sutta in the Majjhima Nikāya stumps Bhikkhu Bodhi.

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-A series of 24 lectures on the Buddhist path based on detailed study of a number of Majjhima Nikaya discourses.
+A series of 24 lectures on the Buddhist path based on detailed study of a number of Majjhima Nikāya discourses.
 
 

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-A series of 23 lectures on Buddhist meditation and soteriology covering Majjhima Nikaya suttas 117 (The Mahācattārīsaka Sutta), 10 (The Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta [which](https://bodhimonastery.org/courses/MN/Tables/M0052_MN-010_Satipatth.pdf){:target="_blank" ga-event-value="0.3"} here [comes](https://bodhimonastery.org/courses/MN/Tables/M0058_MN-010_FiveHindrances.pdf){:target="_blank" ga-event-value="0.3"}  with [four](https://bodhimonastery.org/courses/MN/Tables/M0059_MN-010_FiveAggregates.pdf){:target="_blank" ga-event-value="0.3"}    associated [handouts](https://bodhimonastery.org/courses/MN/Tables/M0061_MN-010_SevenEnlightFactors.pdf){:target="_blank" ga-event-value="0.3"}), 118 (The Ānāpānasati Sutta), and 77 (The Mahāsakuludāyi Sutta).
+A series of 23 lectures on Buddhist meditation and soteriology covering Majjhima Nikāya suttas 117 (The Mahācattārīsaka Sutta), 10 (The Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta [which](https://bodhimonastery.org/courses/MN/Tables/M0052_MN-010_Satipatth.pdf){:target="_blank" ga-event-value="0.3"} here [comes](https://bodhimonastery.org/courses/MN/Tables/M0058_MN-010_FiveHindrances.pdf){:target="_blank" ga-event-value="0.3"}  with [four](https://bodhimonastery.org/courses/MN/Tables/M0059_MN-010_FiveAggregates.pdf){:target="_blank" ga-event-value="0.3"}    associated [handouts](https://bodhimonastery.org/courses/MN/Tables/M0061_MN-010_SevenEnlightFactors.pdf){:target="_blank" ga-event-value="0.3"}), 118 (The Ānāpānasati Sutta), and 77 (The Mahāsakuludāyi Sutta).
 
 

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 > Now a great producer of happiness is the making of good kamma. What is good about it? It is rooted in non-greed (generosity, renunciation), or in non-hate (loving kindness, compassion) or finally in non-delusion (wisdom, understanding). 
 
-In this booklet, Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli Thera offers a translation of Majjhima Nikaya [57](/content/canon/mn57), [135](/content/canon/mn135), [136](/content/canon/mn136), and [41](/content/canon/mn41) with a brief introduction to each sutta, highlighting the importance of wholesome states of mind, right intention, and right mindfulness in generating good kamma. There is also a short but humorous and insightful preface.
+In this booklet, Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli Thera offers a translation of Majjhima Nikāya [57](/content/canon/mn57), [135](/content/canon/mn135), [136](/content/canon/mn136), and [41](/content/canon/mn41) with a brief introduction to each sutta, highlighting the importance of wholesome states of mind, right intention, and right mindfulness in generating good kamma. There is also a short but humorous and insightful preface.

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-> Tucked away in the Samyutta Nikaya among the "connected sayings on causality" is a short formalized text entitled [the Upanisa Sutta](/content/canon/sn12.23), the "Discourse on Supporting Conditions." Though at first glance hardly conspicuous among the many interesting suttas in this collection, this little discourse turns out upon repeated examination to be of tremendous doctrinal importance. 
+> Tucked away in the Samyutta Nikāya among the "connected sayings on causality" is a short formalized text entitled [the Upanisa Sutta](/content/canon/sn12.23), the "Discourse on Supporting Conditions." Though at first glance hardly conspicuous among the many interesting suttas in this collection, this little discourse turns out upon repeated examination to be of tremendous doctrinal importance. 

_content/canon/mn1.md

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-A challenging discourse (even for those who first heard it!), this first sutta of the Majjhima Nikaya is a forceful rejection of all forms of monism, and the Samkhya philosophy in particular.
+A challenging discourse (even for those who first heard it!), this first sutta of the Majjhima Nikāya is a forceful rejection of all forms of monism, and the Samkhya philosophy in particular.
 
 For a translation of this sutta's semicanonical commentaries, see [Bhikkhu Bodhi's *The Root of Existence*](/content/monographs/mn1-cmy_bodhi).

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-title: "The Long Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Digha Nikaya"
+title: "The Long Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Digha Nikāya"
 authors:
   - walshe
 olid: OL8308507M
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 pages: 656
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-Originally published as _Thus Have I Heard_, this modern translation of the Digha Nikaya is striking for its rare combination of accessible erudition and respectful skepticism.
+Originally published as _Thus Have I Heard_, this modern translation of the Digha Nikāya is striking for its rare combination of accessible erudition and respectful skepticism.

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 In this thousand-page tome, Bhikkhu Analayo goes systematically through the MN, one sutta at a time, and explains how the Pāli text differs (or not) from its  parallels preserved in Sanskrit, Chinese and Tibetan. Perhaps surprisingly, they don't differ all that much, though in some places the differences do shed light on the original teaching and shows what kinds of changes occurred to the texts during the process of transmission.
 
-The book begins and ends with Bhikkhu Analayo's reflections on the EBTs and the process of oral transmission, and while the book could certainly be read cover-to-cover, the primary way to use this book is as a reference work alongside the Majjhima Nikaya.
+The book begins and ends with Bhikkhu Analayo's reflections on the EBTs and the process of oral transmission, and while the book could certainly be read cover-to-cover, the primary way to use this book is as a reference work alongside the Majjhima Nikāya.
 
 You can also download the book for free at the University of Hamburg website:
 

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-title: "Highlights of the Four Nikayas"
+title: "Highlights of the Four Nikāyas"
 external_url: "https://readingfaithfully.org/highlights-of-the-nikayas-handouts/"
 year: 2020
 course: sutta

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-Sometimes people will reference suttas by their Pāli name. This handy index helps you to map that Pāli name (e.g. "Madhurā Sutta") to its Nikaya and number (e.g. "MN 84").
+Sometimes people will reference suttas by their Pāli name. This handy index helps you to map that Pāli name (e.g. "Madhurā Sutta") to its Nikāya and number (e.g. "MN 84").
 
 Note the PDF linked above is half-page sized to support printing as a booklet.

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-A short summary of every *sutta* in the Majjhima Nikaya.
+A short summary of every *sutta* in the Majjhima Nikāya.

_courses/an.md

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   - philosophy
   - pali-primer
 next_course_descs:
-  - "Go back and study the Majjhima Nikaya with Bhikkhu Bodhi in this prequel to the present course."
+  - "Go back and study the Majjhima Nikāya with Bhikkhu Bodhi in this prequel to the present course."
   - "A more systematic introduction to Buddhist Philosophy with Bhikkhu Bodhi and several other guest lecturers."
   - "Learn the Pali language itself with Bhikkhu Bodhi."
 ---
 
 
 ## What are the Numerical Discourses?
-The Aṅguttara Nikaya (AN) is the last of the four main books (*nikāya*) of the Buddha's discourses (also known as the *Sutta Piṭaka*) in the Pāḷi Canon.
+The Aṅguttara Nikāya (AN) is the last of the four main books (*nikāya*) of the Buddha's discourses (also known as the *Sutta Piṭaka*) in the Pāḷi Canon.
 
 The Buddha often taught according to numbered lists throughout his career as a teacher, as anyone familiar with Buddhist doctrine will know. In fact, this memorable quality of a list is one of its great advantages as a format and the AN takes full advantage of this technique and hence its name.
 
-From [DN 33](/content/canon/dn33), we know that the Saṅgha would often recite the Buddha's teachings in numerical order even during the Buddha's own lifetime, so it isn't hard to imagine how the tradition came to form the Aṅguttara Nikaya as we have it today. The first book (AN 1) contains a multitude of teachings on "one thing", the second book (AN 2) contains teachings on "two things", etc.
+From [DN 33](/content/canon/dn33), we know that the Saṅgha would often recite the Buddha's teachings in numerical order even during the Buddha's own lifetime, so it isn't hard to imagine how the tradition came to form the Aṅguttara Nikāya as we have it today. The first book (AN 1) contains a multitude of teachings on "one thing", the second book (AN 2) contains teachings on "two things", etc.
 
-The Aṅguttara Nikaya contains some of the most practical suttas in the entire canon: for monastics and the laity. Being organized around a theme as abstract as numbers (starting with the number one!), the AN contains a rich variety of subjects sure to appeal to readers of any level or interest.
+The Aṅguttara Nikāya contains some of the most practical suttas in the entire canon: for monastics and the laity. Being organized around a theme as abstract as numbers (starting with the number one!), the AN contains a rich variety of subjects sure to appeal to readers of any level or interest.
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-This course is technically a continuation of Bhikkhu Bodhi's epic, multi-year [course on the Majjhimā Nikaya](/courses/mn), but don't let that scare you off! This course is designed to be approachable by anyone with a basic understanding of [Buddhism](/courses/buddhism) and of [the Early Buddhist Texts](/courses/ebts).
+This course is technically a continuation of Bhikkhu Bodhi's epic, multi-year [course on the Majjhimā Nikāya](/courses/mn), but don't let that scare you off! This course is designed to be approachable by anyone with a basic understanding of [Buddhism](/courses/buddhism) and of [the Early Buddhist Texts](/courses/ebts).
 
 ## Time Requirement
 
 As of 2021, the course is still ongoing, with new lectures appearing every couple of weeks. I recommend watching one or two videos per week to slowly catch up, but you're welcome to watch at whatever pace works for you.
 
 ## Course Contents
 
-This course goes sequentially through the Aṅguttara Nikaya, explaining each sutta or sutta cluster one at a time.
+This course goes sequentially through the Aṅguttara Nikāya, explaining each sutta or sutta cluster one at a time.
 
 ### Textbook
 
-A copy of the Aṅguttara Nikaya is required for this class.  Bhikkhu Bodhi's own translation is, of course, preferred:
+A copy of the Aṅguttara Nikāya is required for this class.  Bhikkhu Bodhi's own translation is, of course, preferred:
 
 {% include content_blurb.html category="monographs" slug="an_bodhi" %}
 - The lecturer's own translation of the text.

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 - A small chart summarizing the four stages of enlightenment mentioned in this chapter.
 - These stages will come up again in more detail later. 
 
-<i class="fas fa-dharmachakra"></i> Suttas from the Anguttara Nikaya on Spiritual Companionship
+<i class="fas fa-dharmachakra"></i> Suttas from the Anguttara Nikāya on Spiritual Companionship
 
 - As we covered previously, spiritual friendship is the most important external path-factor.
 - In these *suttas* selected by Bhikkhu Bodhi, the Buddha gives us advice on how to find and cultivate spiritual friendship: