A complete translation of the book of the Udāna from the Khuddaka Nikāya collection of the Pāli Canon.
The role of the Udāna within the context of the Pāli Canon is to focus on the values and principles—“meaning” in the larger sense of the term—that underlie the Buddha’s teachings.
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You yourselves must strive, the Buddhas only point the way
Buddha, Dhp 276
The Udana & The Itivuttaka
John D. Irelandhis book includes two small classics of the Pali Canon in one volume. The Udana, or Inspired Utterances of the Buddha, consists of eighty discourses…
Handful of Leaves: An Anthology from the Sutta Pitaka
Thānissaro BhikkhuThis 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…
Handful of Leaves vol. 4: An Anthology from the Anguttara Nikaya
Thānissaro BhikkhuThe Aṅguttara Nikāya, a collection of short to medium-length discourses, takes its name from the way the discourses are grouped by the number of their parts…
Handful of Leaves vol. 2: An Anthology from the Majjhima Nikaya
Thānissaro BhikkhuThe Majjhima Nikāya — the Middle Collection — is the second collection in the Sutta Piṭaka. It takes its name from the length of the discourses it contains…
Handful of Leaves vol. 1: An Anthology from the Digha Nikaya
Thānissaro BhikkhuThis volume is the first in a four-volume anthology of suttas (discourses) drawn from the Sutta Piṭaka (discourse basket or repository) of the Pāli Canon.
Itivuttaka: This was Said by the Buddha
Thānissaro BhikkhuThe Itivuttaka is a newly updated translation of a collection of 112 short suttas, each one a prose passage followed by a verse. This collection is shaped less…