The delightful stories appearing in this book are translated mostly from The Commentary on the Dhammapada. Originally published in the magazines The Young Citizen and The Adyar Bulletin, they illustrate the moral teachings of Buddhism in a simple and easy form.
The Book of the Kindred Sayings is the English translation of the Samyutta Nikaya, a book of the Sutta Pitaka, belonging to the original Buddhist canon, is marked with simplicity and readability by way of most appropriate English interpretations and renditions of the original teachings of the Buddha expounded in the Pali language in the style of catechism. The translation though first published in, as early as 1917, is still considered ‘unsurpassable’ by the ...
The Book This collection consists of passages from the Vinaya Pitaka, the Four Great Nikayas (Digha-Majjhima-, Samyatta-, and Anguttara-Nikayas), and those parts of the Short Nikaya, such as Dhammapada, Itivuttaka, Udana, and Sutta Nipata, (the-named contains some of the oldest parts of the Pali Canon). Where the Buddha is represented as speaking, both in prose and verse. The Author has included the whole of the Khuddaka-Patna, which tradition has regarded as ...