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The Udana & The Itivuttaka: Inspired Utterances of the Buddha & The Buddha's Sayings
This book includes two small classics of the Pali Canon in one volume. The Udana, or Inspired Utterances of the Buddha, consists of eighty discourses, mostly short, divided into eight sections or chapters (vagga). Udana refers to the pronouncement, usually in verse, made at the end of each discourse and prefaced by the "Then, on realizing its significance, the Lord uttered on that occasion this inspired utterance." Thus udana means an inspired or solemn utterance spontaneously evoked by the understanding or realization of the significance of the situation that occasioned it. The Itivuttaka is a collection of 112 inspiring texts in mixed prose and verse. According to the commentarial tradition, The Itivuttaka suttas were collected by the woman lay disciple Khujjuttara. She was a servant who went regularly to listen to the Buddha and then later repeated what she had heard to the other women of the palace. She had become a stream-enterer after meeting the Buddha and subsequently converted the women of the palace to the teaching. The collection of these sayings became The Itivuttaka. ( This title was previously published under ISBN 9781681721125. Due to technical issues a new ISBN had to be assigned. Rest assured that both versions of this title are exactly the same.)
- GenresBuddhism
248 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 28, 2020
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November 12, 2021
"Ah, what bliss! Ah, what bliss!"*
Good book. Such a pleasant layout page-to-page; the selections of fonts create a very lucid design, makes for unobstructed reading and turns reading almost into smooth absorption.. The inspired utterances themselves are succinct and sometimes serene, at other times poetic, but always direct and clear, simple enough to for one to ponder on after each sutta––or again and again at some later time of mindfulness. Shiver me attention! Sincerely though..
The endnotes alone would be worth the read. Learned a good amount of Pāli and terminology real naturally, somewhat surprised by how much. Anyway, it's all helpful for a daily practitioner, and nightly too. Useful for cultivating dat 'imperturbable concentration', ardent and resolute and whatnot.
*"As a deer, living in a forest where men do not travel, stands, sits, and sleeps confidently, and goes wherever it wants unimpeded in its movements, so do I live." –Bhaddiya*
Good book. Such a pleasant layout page-to-page; the selections of fonts create a very lucid design, makes for unobstructed reading and turns reading almost into smooth absorption.. The inspired utterances themselves are succinct and sometimes serene, at other times poetic, but always direct and clear, simple enough to for one to ponder on after each sutta––or again and again at some later time of mindfulness. Shiver me attention! Sincerely though..
The endnotes alone would be worth the read. Learned a good amount of Pāli and terminology real naturally, somewhat surprised by how much. Anyway, it's all helpful for a daily practitioner, and nightly too. Useful for cultivating dat 'imperturbable concentration', ardent and resolute and whatnot.
*"As a deer, living in a forest where men do not travel, stands, sits, and sleeps confidently, and goes wherever it wants unimpeded in its movements, so do I live." –Bhaddiya*
March 22, 2022
"Ah, what bliss! Ah, what bliss!"*
Good book. Such a pleasant layout page-to-page; the selections of fonts create a very lucid design, makes for unobstructed reading and turns reading almost into smooth absorption.. The inspired utterances themselves are succinct and sometimes serene, at other times poetic, but always direct and clear, simple enough to for one to ponder on after each sutta––or again and again at some later time of mindfulness. Shiver me attention! Sincerely though..
The endnotes alone would be worth the read. Learned a good amount of Pāli and terminology real naturally, somewhat surprised by how much. Anyway, it's all helpful for a daily practitioner, and nightly too. Useful for cultivating dat 'imperturbable concentration', ardent and resolute and whatnot.
*"As a deer, living in a forest where men do not travel, stands, sits, and sleeps confidently, and goes wherever it wants unimpeded in its movements, so do I live." –Bhaddiya*
Good book. Such a pleasant layout page-to-page; the selections of fonts create a very lucid design, makes for unobstructed reading and turns reading almost into smooth absorption.. The inspired utterances themselves are succinct and sometimes serene, at other times poetic, but always direct and clear, simple enough to for one to ponder on after each sutta––or again and again at some later time of mindfulness. Shiver me attention! Sincerely though..
The endnotes alone would be worth the read. Learned a good amount of Pāli and terminology real naturally, somewhat surprised by how much. Anyway, it's all helpful for a daily practitioner, and nightly too. Useful for cultivating dat 'imperturbable concentration', ardent and resolute and whatnot.
*"As a deer, living in a forest where men do not travel, stands, sits, and sleeps confidently, and goes wherever it wants unimpeded in its movements, so do I live." –Bhaddiya*
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