This all-in-one book bundles all of the sutta collections: the Dīgha, Majjhima, Saṁyutta, and Aṅguttara Nikāyas, as well as six books from the Khuddaka Nikāya — the Khuddakapāṭha, Dhammapada, Udāna, Itivuttaka, Sutta Nipāta, Theragāthā & Therīgāthā.
The purpose of combining these collections into one volume is to hyper-link the extensive cross-referencing within and across the collections. The pdf is almost 2,500 pages long and will be almost completely unusable on small devices and might even be quite laggy on a computer. If this is the case, please make use of the separate books.
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