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Nikāya (निकाय) is a Pāli word
meaning "volume". It is
often used like the
Sanskrit word āgama (आगम) to mean "collection", "****emblage", "class" or "group"...
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nikayas (collections) of suttas:
Digha Nikāya (dīghanikāya), the "long" discourses.
Majjhima Nikāya, the "middle-length" discourses. Saṁyutta
Nikāya (saṃyutta-)...
- The Dīgha
Nikāya ("Collection of Long Discourses") is a
Buddhist scriptures collection, the
first of the five
Nikāyas, or collections, in the
Sutta Piṭaka...
- The
Majjhima Nikāya ("Collection of Middle-length Discourses") is a
Buddhist scripture collection, the
second of the five
Nikāyas, or collections, in the...
- Rāmañña
Nikāya (රාමඤ්ඤ නිකාය, also
spelled Ramanya Nikaya) was one of the
three major Buddhist orders in Sri Lanka. It was
founded in 1864 when Ambagahawatte...
- 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"...
- The Aṅguttara
Nikāya (aṅguttaranikāya; lit. 'Increased-by-One Collection', also
translated "Gradual Collection" or "Numerical Discourses") is a Buddhist...
- The
Amarapura Nikaya (Sinhala: අමරපුර මහ නිකාය) is a Sri
Lankan monastic fraternity (gaṇa or
nikāya)
founded in 1800. It is
named after the city of Amarapura...
- The term
Nikāya Buddhism was
coined by
Masatoshi Nagatomi as a non-derogatory
substitute for Hinayana,
meaning the
early Buddhist schools.
Examples of...
- The Mahā
Nikāya (literal translation: "great order") is one of the two prin****l
monastic orders, or fraternities, of
modern Thai and
Cambodian Buddhism...
