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    The Aṅguttara Nikāya (aṅguttaranikāya; lit. 'Increased-by-One Collection', also translated "Gradual Collection" or "Numerical Discourses") is a Buddhist...
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    Heaven, or the heavens, is a common religious cosmological or transcendent supernatural place where beings such as deities, angels, souls, saints, or venerated...
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    The Dīgha Nikāya ("Collection of Long Discourses") is a Buddhist scriptures collection, the first of the five Nikāyas, or collections, in the Sutta Piṭaka...
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    (saṃyutta-), the "connected" discourses. Anguttara Nikāya (aṅguttara-), the "numerical" discourses. Khuddaka Nikāya, the "minor collection". This includes...
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    Pāli Majjhima Nikāya. Bhikkhu Bodhi in the introduction to his translation describes the collection as follows: If the Majjhima Nikāya were to be characterised...
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  • (majjhima) discourses the Samyutta Nikāya, the collection of thematically linked (samyutta) discourses the Anguttara Nikāya, the "gradual collection" (discourses...
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    this nikaya has the most detailed explanations of doctrine. Anguttara Nikaya (aṅguttara-) Thousands of short discourses arranged numerically from ones...
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  • (Aṅguttara Nikāya 11.13) Practicing masterfully, or practicing with integrity, means sharing what they have learned with others. The Aṅguttara Nikāya provides...
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    The Khuddaka Nikāya (lit. 'Minor Collection') is the last of the five Nikāyas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets"...
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    scriptural account of the introduction of the Garudammas (the Gotamī Sutta, Aṅguttara Nikāya 8.51, repeated in the later Cullavagga at X.1), the reason the Buddha...
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