Tevigga Suttanta. On Knowledge Of The Vedas : p. 159 TEVIGGA-SUTTANTA. INTRODUCTION TO THE TEVI"GG"A SUTTA. THIS is the twelfth and last Sutta in the first division of the Dgha Nikya, which is called the Slakkhandha Vaggo, because the whole of its twelve Dialogues deal, from one point of view or another, with Sla, or Right Conduct. There is...
Maha Parinibbana Suttanta. The Book : p. xxix MAH-PARINIBBNA-SUTTANTA. p. xxx p. xxxi INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK OF THE GREAT DECEASE. IN translating this Sutta I have followed the text published by my friend the late Mr. Childers, first in the journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, and afterwards separately. In the former the text...
Maha Sudassana Sutta. Legend Of The Gre : p. 237 MAH-SUDASSANA SUTTA. INTRODUCTION THE following translation is made from a text based on three MSS. from the same sources as those referred to at the commencement of the Tevi"gg"a Sutta, and referred to in my notes by the same letters. This Sutta follows in the Dgha Nikya immediately after...
Akankheyya Sutta. If He Should Desire : p. 207 KANKHEYYA SUTTA. INTRODUCTION JUST as the Tevi"gg"a Sutta is an argumentum ad hominem to the man wise in the Vedas, and seeking through that knowledge for union with the Deity, urging him to adopt rather the Buddhist method of a life of righteousness here on earth; so the present Sutta is...
General Introduction : p. ix GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE BUDDHIST SUTTAS. ON being asked to contribute a volume of translations from the Pli Suttas to the important series of which this work forms a part, the contributor has to face the difficulty of choosing from the stores of a nearly unknown literature--a difficulty...
Title Page : BUDDHIST SUTTAS TRANSLATED FROM PLI BY T. W. RHYS DAVIDS The Mah-parinibbna Suttanta The Dhamma-kakka-ppavattana Sutta The Tevi"gg"a Suttanta The kankheyya Sutta The Ketokhila Sutta The Mah-Sudassana Suttanta The Sabbsava Sutta Oxford, The Clarendon Press [1881] {scanned , December, 2001} Vol. XI...
Sabbasava Sutta. All The Asavas : p. 293 SABBASVA SUTTA. INTRODUCTION DR. MORRIS, who had borrowed the Phayre and Turnour MSS. of the Magghima Nikya from the India Office Library, has been good enough to transcribe the text of this Sutta for me. I had hoped from the Rev. David da Silva's analysis of the Sutta in the Ceylon Friend...
Dhamma Kakka Ppavattana Sutta. Foundati : p. 139 DHAMMA-"K"AKKA-PPAVATTANA SUTTA INTRODUCTION TO THE FOUNDATION OF THE KINGDOM OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. THIS translation is made from a transcript of the text as found in the very beautiful Ceylon MS. on silver plates, now in the British Museum. The letters, which are perfectly formed, are cut...
Ketokhila Sutta. Barreness And Bondage : p. 221 "K"ETOKHILA-SUTTA. INTRODUCTION THE following translation has been made from a text, based on the Turnour and Phayre MSS. in the India Office, of which Dr. Morris was kind enough to allow me the use. The Suttas in the Ma"ggh"ima Nikya are usually distinguished by the way in which a single...
