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Majjhima Nikāya
The Majjhima Nikāya (“Collection of Middle-length Discourses”) is a Buddhist scripture collection, the second of the five Nikāyas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the “three baskets” that compose the Pali Tipitaka (lit. “Three Baskets”) of Theravada Buddhism. Composed between 3rd century BCE and 2nd century CE. This nikaya consists of 152 discourses attributed to the Buddha and his chief disciples.
The Majjhima Nikaya corresponds to the Madhyama Āgama found in the Sutra Pitikas of various Sanskritic early Buddhist schools, fragments of which survive in Sanskrit and in Tibetan translation. A complete Chinese translation from the Sarvāstivādin recension appears in the Chinese Buddhist canon, where it is known as the Zhōng Ahánjīng (中阿含經). The Madhyama Āgama of the Sarvāstivāda school contains 222 sūtras, in contrast to the 152 suttas in the Pāli Majjhima Nikāya.
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Wikipedia. (2023). Majjhima Nikāya. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majjhima_Nikāya
