The Sutta Piṭaka is the largest and best-known of the Baskets: many of the Buddha’s most
famous teachings come from this collection. It is itself divided up into five groups (nikāya),
named according to the format of the texts within them:
(i) the Dīgha Nikāya, containing long (dīgha) discourses;
(ii) the Majjhima Nikāya, containing discourses of medium (majjhima) length;
(iii) the Saṃyutta Nikāya, containing connected (saṃyutta) discourses;
(iv) the Aṅguttara Nikāya, containing short discourses organized in numerical order (aṅguttara, ‘longer by an item’, ‘graduated’), so that the first section is concerned with items that occur in ‘ones’, the second with ‘twos’, and so on up to ‘elevens’;
(v) the Khuddaka Nikāya, containing miscellaneous short (khuddaka) texts.
(i) the Dīgha Nikāya, containing long (dīgha) discourses;
(ii) the Majjhima Nikāya, containing discourses of medium (majjhima) length;
(iii) the Saṃyutta Nikāya, containing connected (saṃyutta) discourses;
(iv) the Aṅguttara Nikāya, containing short discourses organized in numerical order (aṅguttara, ‘longer by an item’, ‘graduated’), so that the first section is concerned with items that occur in ‘ones’, the second with ‘twos’, and so on up to ‘elevens’;
(v) the Khuddaka Nikāya, containing miscellaneous short (khuddaka) texts.
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