The Earliest Recorded Discourses of the Buddha

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this compilation has been abstracted from the following documents: FIRST DISCOURSE: http://www.ancient-buddhist-texts.net/English-Texts/ Short-Pieces-in-Sanskrit/Turning-the-Dharma-Wheel.htm SECOND & THIRD DISCOURSE: http://www.ancient-buddhist-texts.net/English-Texts/ Great-Chapter/Great-Chapter.htm FOURTH DISCOURSE: http:// www.ancient-buddhist-texts.net/English-Texts/ Short-Pieces-in-Sanskrit/Fourth-Discourse.htm ToC
1 Introduction The earliest recorded discourses of the Buddha are found in narratives detailing his early career, not long after the Awakening. We have three main sources for a record of this period, they are the Lalitavistara, which originally seems to have belonged to the Sarvāstivāda sect; 1 the Mahākhandaka, which is part of the Theravāda Vinayapiṭaka, and the Mahāvastu, which apparently formed the substance of the Vinaya of the Lokottaravāda sect. 2 The three works cover somewhat different time spans, the first of them, the Lalitavistara (An Elaboration of the Play [of the Buddha]), ends after the first discourse has been delivered. The Mahākhandaka (The Great Chapter) continues up and till the conversion of Sāriputta and Moggallāna. The Mahāvastu (The Great Story), on the other hand, ends somewhat earlier, with the donation of the Bamboo Wood by King Bimbisāra. Embedded into these narratives there are certain teachings, which now form the earliest recorded discourses of the Buddha, and it is those that are presented here. That there were many other teachings 1 See The Lalitavistara and Sarvastivada by E. J. Thomas in the Indian Historical Quarterly, 16:2 1940.06 p. 239-245. 2 See Senart, Vol I, p. 2. ToC
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Page 7 and 8: Introduction - 3 I have not made a
Page 9 and 10: Introduction - 5 Further Attainment
Page 11 and 12: Introduction - 7 Bhaddiya Assaji Ur
Page 13 and 14: The First Discourse - 9 knowledge a
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Page 19 and 20: The First Discourse - 15 This is sa
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Page 23 and 24: The First Discourse - 19 ‘Destroy
Page 25 and 26: The First Discourse - 21 The cause
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Page 43 and 44: 39 The Third Discourse 38 The First
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