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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"...
- 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 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...
- of Digha Nikaya suttas List of Majjhima Nikaya suttas List of Samyutta Nikaya suttas List of Anguttara Nikaya suttas List of Khuddaka Nikaya suttas Sujato...
- The Majjhima Nikāya ("Collection of Middle-length Discourses") is a Buddhist scripture collection, the second of the five Nikāyas, or collections, in the...
- The Aṅguttara Nikāya (aṅguttaranikāya; lit. 'Increased-by-One Collection', also translated "Gradual Collection" or "Numerical Discourses") is a Buddhist...
- 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"...
- 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 Mahā Nikāya (literal translation: "great order") is one of the two prin****l monastic orders, or fraternities, of modern Thai and Cambodian Buddhism...