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Anguttara Nikaya




The Anguttara Nikaya (aṅguttaranikāya; "Gradual Collection") is a Buddhist scripture, the fourth of the five Nikaya s, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka , which is one of the "three baskets" that comprise the Pali Tipitaka of Theravada Buddhism. This nikaya consists of several thousand discourses ascribed to the Buddha and his chief disciples arranged in eleven Nipata s, or books, according to the number of Dhamma items referenced in them.

A similar collection, apparently translated from an earlier version in some other Indian dialect, appears in the Chinese Buddhist Canon . This is known as the Ekottara Agama (aka 'Ekottara-āgama-sūtra', or ''Zēngyī Ahánjīng'' (增一阿含經)).


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The nipatas in this nikaya are:
  • The Book of Ones

  • The Book of Twos

  • The Book of Threes

  • The Book of Fours

  • The Book of Fives

  • The Book of Sixes

  • The Book of Sevens

  • The Book of Eights

  • The Book of Nines

  • The Book of Tens

  • The Book of Elevens



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