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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 689 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NIKAYA (" collection ") , the name of a See also:division of the Buddhist canonical books. There are four See also:principal Nikayas, making together the Sutta Pitaka (" See also:Basket of Discourses "), the second of the three baskets into which the See also:canon is divided. The fifth or See also:miscellaneous Nikaya is by some authorities added to this Pitaka, by others to the next. The first two Nikayas, called respectively Digha and Majjhima (Longer and Shorter), See also:form one See also:book, a collection of the dialogues of the See also:Buddha, the longer ones being included in the former, the shorter ones in the latter. The third, called the Anguttara (Progressive Addition), rearranges the doctrinal See also:matter contained in the Dialogues in See also:groups of ethical concepts, beginning with the See also:units, then giving the pairs, then the The See also:text of the Dialogues fills about 2000 pages 8vo in the edition prepared for the See also:Pali Text Society, of which five vols. out of six had been published in 1909, and the first had been translated into See also:English. The Samyulta, of about the same See also:size, and the Anguttara, which is a little smaller, have both been edited. Of the twenty-two miscellaneous books twenty .have been edited (see Rhys Davids, See also:American Lectures (1896), pp. 66-79), five have been translated into English and two more into See also:German. See Digha Nikaya, ed. Rhys Davids and See also:Carpenter (3 vols.); Samyulta Nikaya (5 vols.), ed. See also:Leon Feer, vol. vi. by Mrs Rhys Davids, containing indices; Anguttara Nikaya, ed. R.

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Morris and E. See also:Hardy (5 vols.) ; all published by the Pali Text Society. Also Rhys Davids, Dialogues of the Buddha, vol. i. (See also:Oxford, 1899) ; A. J. See also:Edmunds, " Buddhist Bibliography," in See also:Journal of the Pali Text Society (1903), pp. 5-12. (T. W. R.

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