{"id":4376,"date":"2022-03-01T15:43:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T14:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vriendenvanboeddhisme.nl\/?post_type=book&#038;p=4376"},"modified":"2024-01-02T15:15:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T14:15:18","slug":"majjhima-nikaya-the-middle-length-discourses-of-the-buddha-volume-3","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/vriendenvanboeddhisme.nl\/en\/pali-canon\/majjhima-nikaya-the-middle-length-discourses-of-the-buddha-volume-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Majjhima-Nikaya \u2013 The Middle-length Discourses of the Buddha \u2013 Volume 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>This book contains an integral Dutch translation of the third part of the Majjhima-Nikaya (MN), &#8216;The Middle-length discourses of the Buddha&#8217;.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>The Majjhima-Nikaya is traditionally seen as the second set (nikaya) in the Sutta-Pitaka, after the Digha-Nikaya. The Sutta-Pitaka is the \u2018basket\u2019 of discourses&nbsp; (sutta\u2019s) atributed to the historical Buddha and his main disciples.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sutta-Pitaka is part of the Pali-Canon together with the Vinaya-Pitaka (the \u2018basket\u2019 of the monastic rules) and the Abhi\u00addhamma-Pitaka (the \u2018basket\u2019 with detailed scholastic presentations of doctrinal material). Together they form the body of sacred texts of Theravada Buddhism. The Pali-Canon or Ti\u00adpitaka (\u2018three baskets\u2019) contain the oldest extant scriptures of the Buddhist tradition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Majjhima-Nikaya contains 152 \u201cmiddle-length discourses\u201d of the Buddha and is primarily aimed at the community of Buddhists and particularly introduces new converts to the fundamentals of the Teaching and Buddhist practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This volume (Uparipannasa) contains the last 52 teachings (suttas 101-152), divided into four chapters (vaggas) of ten and one of twelve. More suttas of a later date are included in this volume than in the previous two volumes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3220,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-4376","book","type-book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vriendenvanboeddhisme.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/4376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vriendenvanboeddhisme.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vriendenvanboeddhisme.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vriendenvanboeddhisme.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/vriendenvanboeddhisme.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/4376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5324,"href":"https:\/\/vriendenvanboeddhisme.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/4376\/revisions\/5324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vriendenvanboeddhisme.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vriendenvanboeddhisme.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}