Collections of 'linked' or 'connected' discourses and other related texts.
01
SAGĀTHĀVAGGASAMYUTTA
SN 1-11
The Group of Linked Discourses With Verses
The "Book With Verses" is the first of the five books of the Linked Discourses. It is divided into eleven samyuttas or "sections", with a total of 271 suttas. Most of these are further subdivided into vaggas of ten suttas. The word vagga is thus used of both the major...
02
NIDĀNAVAGGASAMYUTTA
SN 12-21
The Group of Linked Discourses Beginning With Causation
The "Book of Causation" is the second of the five books of the Linked Discourses. It is named after the first and longest samyutta, which deals with causation through the core Buddhist teaching of Dependent Origination. The remaining nine samyuttas deal with miscellaneous...
03
KHANDHAVAGGASAMYUTTA
SN 22-34
The Group of Linked Discourses Beginning With the Aggregates
The "Book of the Aggregates" is the third of the five books of the Linked Discourses. It is named after the first and longest samyutta, which deals with the core Buddhist teaching of the five aggregates. Of the remaining twelve samyuttas, three also take up the theme of th...
04
SALĀYATANAVAGGASAMYUTTA
SN 35-44
The Group of Linked Discourses Beginning With the Six Sense Fields
The "Book of the Six Sense Fields" is the fourth of the five books of the Linked Discourses. It is named after the first and longest samyutta, which deals with the core Buddhist teaching of the six sense fields. The second samyutta on Feelings also deals with a major doctrinal...
05
MAHĀVAGGASAMYUTTA
SN 45-56
The Group of Linked Discourses on the Path
The "Great Book" is the last and largest of the five books of the Linked Discourses. It consists of twelve samyuttas, almost all of which deal with an aspect of Buddhist practice, or the path. The first of these, indeed, is the "Section on the Path" (Maggasamyutta), and in...
