What the Blessed Buddha actually
said & did:
The unsurpassable blissful advantage
gained by thorough perusal of these 4 ancient text collections
lasts more than this life... Nothing else in this petty world gives such long-lasting lift of purification!
The
Tipitaka = "Three Baskets" of core Ancient, Authentic, Sacred,
and Canonical Buddhist
scriptures was written down on palm leaves in the
Aluvihare Cave
Temple Sri Lanka ~92-29 BC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluvihare_Rock_Temple
Modern translations are available as:
The
Long Discourses of the Buddha.
Digha Nikāya 1996. Tr. by Walshe
http://store.pariyatti.org/Long-Discourses-of-the-Buddha_p_1542.html
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/dn/index.html
The
Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha.
Majjhima Nikāya. Tr. by
Nanamoli.
http://store.pariyatti.org/Middle-Length-Discourses-of-the-Buddha_p_1543.html
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/mn/index.html
A MUST!
The
Connected Discourses of the Buddha.
Samyutta Nikāya.
2000. Tr.
by Bodhi.
http://store.pariyatti.org/Connected-Discourses-of-the-Buddha_p_1379.html
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/sn/index.html
The
Numerical Discourses of the Buddha.
Anguttra
Nikāya.
2012. Tr.
by Bodhi.
http://store.pariyatti.org/Numerical-Discourses-of-the-Buddha_p_4240.html
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/an/index.html
For a more serious study of the 2488 years old sacred Buddhist texts,
Check:
The Pāli Text Society
founded
in 1881:
http://www.palitext.com
Ola Palm-leaf Script:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm-leaf_manuscript
To study and emulate these ancient sources
has more relevance for all our
personal future well-being than absolutely anything else here in this world!
So please dig them. They were made exactly
for that good purpose. Yeah!
