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Aṅguttara Nikāya

Discourses of the Buddha

An Anthology

Part I

Selected and translated from the Pāli

Nyanaponika Thera

and

Bhikkhu Bodhi

Buddhist Publication Society

Kandy • Sri Lanka

The Wheel Publication No. 155–156

First edition: 1970.

Second edition: 1980.

BPS Online Edition © (2010)

Digital Transcription Source: BPS.

For this edition, the revised translations by Venerable Bodhi as given in the Numerical Discourses

of the Buddha have been used with his kind permission.

For free distribution. This work may be republished, reformatted, reprinted and redistributed in

any medium. However, any such republication and redistribution is to be made available to the

public on a free and unrestricted basis and translations and other derivative works are to be

clearly marked as such and the Buddhist Publication Society is to be acknowledged as the

original publisher.

Contents

Key to Abbreviations . ....................................................................................................................4

Introduction . ...................................................................................................................................5

Aṅguttara Nikāya . ..................................................................................................................................6

I. The Chapter of the Ones . ...........................................................................................................6

1. The Mind–I . ........................................................................................................................6

2. The Mind–II . .......................................................................................................................6

3. Loving kindness . ................................................................................................................7

4. Mind Is the Forerunner . ....................................................................................................7

5 . The Highest Gain . ..............................................................................................................8

6. One Person . ........................................................................................................................8

7. Impossible . .........................................................................................................................9

8. Mindfulness Directed to the Body . ..................................................................................9

II. The Chapter of the Twos . .......................................................................................................11

9. Unremitting Effort . ..........................................................................................................11

10. Abandon Evil . ................................................................................................................11

11. Tranquillity and Insight . ...............................................................................................12

12. Repaying One’s Parents . ...............................................................................................13

13. Two Kinds of Happiness . .............................................................................................13

III. The Chapter of the Threes . ....................................................................................................14

14. The Fool and the Wise Person . .....................................................................................14

15. Dhamma, the Co-regent . ...............................................................................................14

16. Cause for Shame . ...........................................................................................................15

17. Three Types of Patients . ................................................................................................15

18. Three Mentalities . ..........................................................................................................16

19. Free of “I”-making . ........................................................................................................17

20. Causes of Action . ...........................................................................................................18

21. Good Sleep . .....................................................................................................................19

22. The Divine Messengers . ................................................................................................20

23. Threefold Pride . .............................................................................................................22

24. The Conditioned and the Unconditioned . ..................................................................23

25. An Island of Refuge . ......................................................................................................23

26. The Visible Nibbāna . .....................................................................................................24

27. To Whom Should Gifts Be Given? . ..............................................................................24

28. Do Monks Benefit Others? . ...........................................................................................26

29. Three Sectarian Tenets . .................................................................................................28

30. To the Kālāmas . ..............................................................................................................32

31. Lust, Hatred, and Delusion ..........................................................................................34

32. Becoming . .......................................................................................................................36

33. The Threefold Training .................................................................................................37

34. The Refinement of the Mind–I . ....................................................................................38

35. The Refinement of the Mind–II . ...................................................................................40

36. Gratification, Danger and Escape–I . ............................................................................41

37. Gratification, Danger and Escape–II . ..........................................................................42

38. Gratification, Danger and Escape–III ..........................................................................42

39. At the Gotamaka Shrine . ...............................................................................................42

40. The Three Characteristics of Existence . .......................................................................43

41. Happy Days . ...................................................................................................................43

IV. The Chapter of the Fours . ......................................................................................................44

42. The Stream . .....................................................................................................................44

43. Training for Enlightenment . .........................................................................................44

44. Training in Determination and Insight . ......................................................................45

45. The Four Right Efforts . ..................................................................................................46

46. The Tathāgata . ................................................................................................................46

47. The Lion . .........................................................................................................................47

48. The Best Kinds of Faith . ................................................................................................48

49. Doṇa the Brahmin ..........................................................................................................49

50. Seeking the End of the World . .....................................................................................50

51. Distortions of Perception ..............................................................................................51

52. How to Be United in Future Lives . ..............................................................................52

53. The Gift of Food . ............................................................................................................53

54. Respect for Parents . .......................................................................................................54

55. A Superior Person . .........................................................................................................54

56. The Four Unthinkables . ................................................................................................55

57. One’s Own Good and Another’s . ................................................................................55

58. Four Thoroughbreds . ....................................................................................................56

59. Four Occasions for Diligence . ......................................................................................57

60. For One’s Own Sake . .....................................................................................................58

61. Four Wonderful Things . ...............................................................................................58

62. The Nun . .........................................................................................................................59

63. Four Ways of Behaviour . ..............................................................................................60

64. Ways to Arahantship . ....................................................................................................61

65. Volition . ..........................................................................................................................62

66. No Guarantee . ................................................................................................................63

67. Fear of Death . .................................................................................................................63

68. How to Judge a Person’s Character . ............................................................................65

69. The Growth of Wisdom . ...............................................................................................67

Key to Abbreviations

A-a

Aṅguttara Aṭṭhakathā

A-ṭ

Aṅguttara-ṭīkā

Aṅguttara Nikāya

Burmese script edition (of AN)

BPS

Buddhist Publication Society (Kandy, Sri Lanka)

Comy Commentary

Dhp

Dhammapada (by verse)

Dīgha Nikāya (by sutta)

European (PTS) edition (of AN)

Itivuttaka (by sutta)

Majjhima Nikāya (by sutta)

Paṭis

Paṭisambhidāmagga (by volume, page)

PTS

Pāli Text Society (Oxford, England)

Pug

Puggalapaññatti (page)

Skt

Sanskrit

Suttanipāta (by verse)

Saṃyutta Nikāya (by chapter and sutta)

Theragāthā (by verse)

Udāna (by chapter and sutta)

Vibh

Vibhaṅga (by page)

Vin Vinaya (by volume, page)

Vism Visuddhimagga

References to volume and page are to PTS editions. References to Vism are to chapter and

paragraph in the English translation, The Path of Purification, by Ñāṇamoli Bhikkhu, BPS, 1999.

Page references to Vibh are followed by the paragraph number in the PTS English translation,

The Book of Analysis by Ashin Thittila, 1969.

Introduction

The Aṅguttara Nikāya is the largest among the four collections ( nikāya ) of the Buddha’s

Discourses contained in the Sutta Piṭaka of the Pali Canon. The title of the work derives from the

way of its arrangement. The Book of the Ones (Ekaka Nipāta) comprises items with single

classification; the Book of the Twos (Duka Nipāta), items with a twofold classification and so

forth up to the Book of the Elevens, The Pali title, Aṅguttara Nikāya , could be rendered literally

by “Further-factored Collection” ( aṅga factor, uttara , beyond, further), i.e., “discourses in

progressive numerical order.” In the Pali Text Society’s translation of the complete work, it is

called Gradual Sayings .

It is characteristic of this discourse collection that it mainly deals with the practical aspects of

Buddhism; ethics (lay and monastic), mind training (meditation) and the community life of

monks. Philosophical texts, however, are not absent entirely, as extracts in the present anthology

show.

The present volume contains selections from the first four Books. A second volume

comprising texts from the remaining Books, Five to Eleven, will follow in due course. An

important text from the Book of the Threes has been printed elsewhere in this series and

therefore is not repeated here: The Kālāma Sutta (AN 3:56), in The Wheel No. 8.

The present rendering has benefited from the complete English translation ( Gradual Sayings ,

Pali Text Society) and from the German version by the late Venerable Nyanatiloka Mahāthera

(recently re-issued). In some instances, however, the translator has deviated from both.

A few of the texts have been abridged, and in others the concluding verses have been omitted

where they do not add anything new to the prose section of the Discourse. The Pali

Commentaries to the work have been consulted and extracts from them reproduced in the

Notes.

It is hoped that this Anthology will stimulate readers to study the complete translation of this

Discourse Collection ( Gradual Sayings , 5 vols., Pali Text Society, London).

Nyanaponika Thera

April 1970.

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