Sayings of the Buddha
New translations from the Pali Nikayas
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09 October 2008
- Buddhist religious belief and philosophy derive from the teachings of Gotama the Buddha, and this new translation offers the best selection of his most important sayings across a full range of themes and literary style.
- The most critically up-to-date edition.
- Scholarly and readable translation that offers a wide selection of complete discourses within a single volume.
- The only anthology of material exclusively from the Pali Nikayas, one of the oldest and most important sources for the teachings of the Buddha.
Gotama the Buddha, who lived the life of a wandering ascetic in northern India during the fifth century BCE, is looked to as the founder of one of the world's major religions. One of the main sources for knowledge of his teachings is the four Pali Nikayas or 'collections' of his sayings. Written in Pali, an ancient Indian language closely related to Sanskrit, the Nikayas are among the oldest Buddhist texs and consist of more than one and a half million words. This new translation offers a selection of the Buddha's most important sayings reflecting the full variety of material contained in the Nikayas: the central themes of the Buddha's teaching (his biography, philosophical discourse, instruction on morality, meditation, and the spiritual life) and the range of literary style (myth, dialogue, narrative, short sayings, verse).Readership: students and readers of religious texts, Buddhism, Indian religion, history, and culture
Translated by Rupert Gethin, Reader in Buddhist Studies, University of Bristol
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Nikāya is a word of meaning "collection", "assemblage", "class" or "group" in both Pāḷi and Sanskrit.[1] It is most commonly used in reference to the Buddhist texts of the Sutta Piṭaka, but can also refer to the monastic divisions of Theravāda Buddhism. In addition, the term Nikāya schools is sometimes used in contemporary scholarship to refer to the early Buddhist schools, of which the Theravāda is one.
Text collections
In the Theravāda canon (in particular, the "Discourse Basket" or Sutta Piṭaka) the meaning of nikāya is roughly equivalent to the English collection, and is used to describe groupings of discourses according to theme, length, or other categories. For example, the Sutta Piṭaka is broken up into five nikāyas:- the Dīgha Nikāya, the collection of long (Pāḷi: dīgha) discourses
- the Majjhima Nikāya, the collection of middle-length (majjhima) discourses
- the Samyutta Nikāya, the collection of thematically linked (samyutta) discourses
- the Anguttara Nikāya, the "gradual collection" (discourses grouped by content enumerations)
- the Khuddaka Nikāya, the "minor collection"
Monastic divisions
Among the Theravāda nations of Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka, nikāya is also used as the term for a monastic division or lineage; these groupings are also sometimes called "monastic fraternities" or "frateries". Nikāyas may emerge among monastic groupings as a result of royal or government patronage (such as the Dhammayuttika Nikāya of Thailand, due to the national origin of their ordination lineage (the Siyam Nikāya of Sri Lanka), because of differences in the interpretation of the monastic code, or due to other factors (such as the Amarapura Nikāya in Sri Lanka, which emerged as a reaction to caste restrictions within the Siyam Nikāya). These divisions do not rise to the level of forming separate sects within the Theravāda tradition, because they do not typically follow different doctrines or monastic codes, nor do these divisions extend to the laity.In Myanmar, nikayas (monastic orders) have emerged in response to the relative conservativeness with which the Vinayas are interpreted, and the hierarchical structure within the nikaya. Since 1980, no new nikayas have been allowed, and there are a total of 9 legally-recognized monastic orders in Burma today, under the 1990 Law Concerning Sangha Organizations.[2] The largest of these is the Thudhamma Nikaya, which was founded in the 1800s during the Konbaung dynasty.
See also
----原始佛典選譯 台北:慧炬 1970
Buddhism in Translation: Passages Selected from the Buddhist Sacred Books
, 第 1915 冊
This
work is volume three of the Harvard Oriental Series. The materials for
this book are drawn ultimately from the Pali writings of Ceylon &
Burma, that is to say they are to be found in palm leaf manuscripts of
those countries, written in the Singhalese or Burmese alphabet, as the
case may be, but always in the same Pali language, a tongue very akin to
the Sanskrit. These Pali writings furnish the most authoritative
account of the Buddha & his doctrine that we have. Contents: Buddha;
Sentient Existence; Karma & Rebirth; Meditation & Nirvana; The
Order; The Five Groups.
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內容
CHAPTER L 1
The Story of Sumedha 5
A List of former Buddhas 32
The Characteristics of a Future Buddha 33
The Birth of The Buddha 38
The young Gotamid Prince 48
The Great Retirement 56
The Great Struggle 67
內容
CHAPTER L 1
The Story of Sumedha 5
A List of former Buddhas 32
The Characteristics of a Future Buddha 33
The Birth of The Buddha 38
The young Gotamid Prince 48
The Great Retirement 56
The Great Struggle 67
The devoted Wife 264
Friendship 267
Virtue is its own Reward 269
The Haremark in the Moon 274
CHAPTER IV 280
The Way of Purity 285
Concentration 288
The Thirtyone Grades of Being 289
The Attainment of Buddhaship 73
First Events after the Attainment of Buddhaship 83
The Conversion of Sariputta and Moggallana 87
The Buddhas daily Habits 91
The Death of The Buddha 95
CHAPTER II 111
Questions which tend not to Edification 117
King Milinda and Nagasena come to an Understanding 128
There is no Ego 129
All Signs of an Ego are Absent 146
No continuous Personal Identity 148
The Mind less permanent than the Body 150
What is Unity or One? 153
Analysis of the Human Being 155
21 The Composition of the Body 157
On getting Angry 159
Inanimate Nature 164
The Middle Doctrine 165
Ignorance 170
Karma 179
Consciousness 182
Name and Form 184
The Six Organs of Sense 186
Sensation 187
Attachment 189
Existence 194
Birth etc 201
Discussion of Dependent Origination 202
CHAPTER III 209
Be a Friend to Yourself 213
The Cause of Inequality in the World 214
Fruitful and barren Karma 215
The Death of Moggallana 221
Good and bad Karma 226
How to obtain Wealth Beauty and Social Position 228
The Round of Existence 232
Is this to be my Last Existence? 233
Bebirth is not Transmigration 234
Reflections on Existence 242
Different kinds of Death 252
How Existence in Hell is Possible 253
Deaths Messengers 255
The Three Warnings 259
The Ass in the Lions Skin 262
The Forty Subjects of Meditation 291
The Earthkasina 293
Beauty is but Skindeep 297
The Conversion of Animals 301
Love for Animals 302
The Six High Powers 303
Spiritual Law in the Natural World 307
Going Further and Faring Worse 308
Sariputta and the Two Demons 313
Worldcycles 315
Wisdom 330
The Summum Bonum 331
Mara as Plowman 349
The Firesermon 351
The Four Intent Contemplations 353
The Attainment of the Paths 376
7fi Nirvana to b attained at Death 380
The Trance of Cessation 383
CHAPTER V 392
Conduct 393
The Serpent who wanted to be a Priest 401
The Buddhist Confession of Priests 402
The Order receive leave to dwell in Houses 411
Residence during the Rainy Season 414
The Mendicant Ideal 417
The Value of Training in Religion 420
The colorless Life 421
Can the Saint suffer? 422
The Body is an open Sore 423
Heaven not the Highest Good 424
The Angereating Demon 426
Contentment is Riches 428
The Story of a Priest 430
The young StoneThrower 432
And hate not his father and mother 434
No Buddhist should commit Suicide 436
The Admission of Women to the Order 441
A Family of Magicians 448
The Story of Visakha 451
The Buddhist Apocalypse 481
APPENDIX 103 The Five Groups 487
INDEX 497
corrections most of them trifling The changes at page 87 line 10 and page 125 501
Friendship 267
Virtue is its own Reward 269
The Haremark in the Moon 274
CHAPTER IV 280
The Way of Purity 285
Concentration 288
The Thirtyone Grades of Being 289
The Attainment of Buddhaship 73
First Events after the Attainment of Buddhaship 83
The Conversion of Sariputta and Moggallana 87
The Buddhas daily Habits 91
The Death of The Buddha 95
CHAPTER II 111
Questions which tend not to Edification 117
King Milinda and Nagasena come to an Understanding 128
There is no Ego 129
All Signs of an Ego are Absent 146
No continuous Personal Identity 148
The Mind less permanent than the Body 150
What is Unity or One? 153
Analysis of the Human Being 155
21 The Composition of the Body 157
On getting Angry 159
Inanimate Nature 164
The Middle Doctrine 165
Ignorance 170
Karma 179
Consciousness 182
Name and Form 184
The Six Organs of Sense 186
Sensation 187
Attachment 189
Existence 194
Birth etc 201
Discussion of Dependent Origination 202
CHAPTER III 209
Be a Friend to Yourself 213
The Cause of Inequality in the World 214
Fruitful and barren Karma 215
The Death of Moggallana 221
Good and bad Karma 226
How to obtain Wealth Beauty and Social Position 228
The Round of Existence 232
Is this to be my Last Existence? 233
Bebirth is not Transmigration 234
Reflections on Existence 242
Different kinds of Death 252
How Existence in Hell is Possible 253
Deaths Messengers 255
The Three Warnings 259
The Ass in the Lions Skin 262
The Forty Subjects of Meditation 291
The Earthkasina 293
Beauty is but Skindeep 297
The Conversion of Animals 301
Love for Animals 302
The Six High Powers 303
Spiritual Law in the Natural World 307
Going Further and Faring Worse 308
Sariputta and the Two Demons 313
Worldcycles 315
Wisdom 330
The Summum Bonum 331
Mara as Plowman 349
The Firesermon 351
The Four Intent Contemplations 353
The Attainment of the Paths 376
7fi Nirvana to b attained at Death 380
The Trance of Cessation 383
CHAPTER V 392
Conduct 393
The Serpent who wanted to be a Priest 401
The Buddhist Confession of Priests 402
The Order receive leave to dwell in Houses 411
Residence during the Rainy Season 414
The Mendicant Ideal 417
The Value of Training in Religion 420
The colorless Life 421
Can the Saint suffer? 422
The Body is an open Sore 423
Heaven not the Highest Good 424
The Angereating Demon 426
Contentment is Riches 428
The Story of a Priest 430
The young StoneThrower 432
And hate not his father and mother 434
No Buddhist should commit Suicide 436
The Admission of Women to the Order 441
A Family of Magicians 448
The Story of Visakha 451
The Buddhist Apocalypse 481
APPENDIX 103 The Five Groups 487
INDEX 497
corrections most of them trifling The changes at page 87 line 10 and page 125 501
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作者曾去牛津大學追隨 R. Gombrich 宗教人類學 某次復活節參加英國宗教聚會
閃光燈下眾人都投以奇怪目光 雖然事先徵得同意 他最後還是決定"述學"路線
"千千為敵 一夫勝之 未若自伏 為戰中勝" (法句經)
Dear HC,
...... 買片山一良《佛的語言──巴利佛典入門》，
這本書不容易看，《相應部》、《增支部》很零散，《長部》
有些故事是「想讚佛反而謗佛」，《中部》十分專門。 希望你有耐心讀這本書。
Ken Su
《佛的語言──巴利佛典入門》
“巴利佛典”即用巴利語記載的原始佛教即“上座部佛教”的典籍，是由南傳佛教長老們實踐、闡述、傳承下來的佛教教義，是佛教經、律、論三藏的全部內容。從原典本身到完備的傳統注釋，其教義言簡意賅，接近于現實生活，可以為繁忙的現代人帶來無限安穩。
本書作者片山一良教授是日本著名的學專家和巴利佛典翻譯家。二十餘年來，在從事巴利語教學、原始佛教研究的同時，致力於巴利佛典的翻譯和介紹。本書旨在向大眾講解巴利佛典的結構、主要內容和教義，是一部全面介紹巴利佛典和原始佛教的通俗性讀物。
作者 片山一良[日]
譯者 楊金萍,肖平
北 京:宗教文化出版社 2012
目录 · · · · · ·
中國版序 片山一良
目錄 · · · · · ·中文版序 (日)片山
序章 何謂巴利佛典何謂佛巴利佛典佛語世界
第一章 長部經典長部經典的構成梵網經沙門果經大般涅槃經大念處經世起經善生經
第二章 中部經典中部經典的構成1.根本五十經篇2.中分五十經篇3.後分五十經篇
第三章 相應部經典相應部經典的構成1.有偈篇2.因緣篇3.蘊篇4.六處篇5.大篇
第四章 增支部經典增支部經典的構成1.一法集2.二法集3.三法集4.四法集5.五法集6.六法集7.七法集8.八法集9.九法集10.十法集11.十一法集
第五章 小部經典小部經典的構成 209
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