Buddhist Suttas: Major Scriptural Writings from Early Buddhism: 11 (Sacred Books of the East) - Softcover

On being asked to contribute a volume of translations from the Pali Suttas to the important series of which this work forms a part, the contributor has to face the difficulty of choosing from the stores of a nearly unknown literature a difficulty arising from the embarrassment, not of poverty, but of wealth. I have endeavoured to make such a choice as would enable me to bring together into one volume a collection of texts which should be as complete a sample as one volume could afford of what theB uddhist scriptures, on the whole, contain. With this object in view I have refrained from confining myself to the most interesting books those, namely, which deal with theN oble Eightfold Path, the most essential, the most original, and the most attractive part of Gotama steaching; and I have chosen accordingly, besides theS utta of the Foundation of the Kingdom of Righteousness (the Dhamma- akka-ppavattanaS utta), which treats of theN oble Path, six others which treat of other sides of theB uddhist system ;less interesting perhaps in their subject matter, but of no less historical value. These are 1. The Book of the Great Decease (the Mahaparinibbana-S uttanta), which is theB uddhist representative of what, among the Christians, is called aG ospel. 2. The Foundation of the Kingdom of Righteousness (the Dhamma-akka-ppavattana-S utta), containing the Four Noble Truths, and theN oble Eightfold Path which ends in A rahatship.
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