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**kHy87gPC** · 05-21-2012, 06:54 PM

to add, the Digha Nikaya does not represent the beginning. much of it, probably most of it, was composed after buddha's death

buddha started here: Three Cardinal Discourses of the Buddha

John Ireland's translation of the Itivuttaka is also a very good starting point

At Access to Insight - I have read this quote -

" Recent scholarship suggests that a distinguishing trait of the Digha Nikaya may be that it was "intended for the purpose of propaganda, to attract converts to the new religion."

Bhikkhu Bodhi, Connected Discourses of the Buddha (Somerville, Mass.: Wisdom Publications, 2000), p.31, referring to Joy Manné's "Categories of Sutta in the Pali Nikayas and Their Implications for Our Appreciation of the Buddhist Teaching and Literature," Journal of the Pali Text Society 15 (1990): 29-87.

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kHy87gPC Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 505 Senior Member	to add, the Digha Nikaya does not represent the beginning. much of it, probably most of it, was composed after buddha's death buddha started here: Three Cardinal Discourses of the Buddha John Ireland's translation of the Itivuttaka is also a very good starting point At Access to Insight - I have read this quote - " Recent scholarship suggests that a distinguishing trait of the Digha Nikaya may be that it was "intended for the purpose of propaganda, to attract converts to the new religion." Bhikkhu Bodhi, Connected Discourses of the Buddha (Somerville, Mass.: Wisdom Publications, 2000), p.31, referring to Joy Manné's "Categories of Sutta in the Pali Nikayas and Their Implications for Our Appreciation of the Buddhist Teaching and Literature," Journal of the Pali Text Society 15 (1990): 29-87.
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