Sutta Nipata
| Sutta Nipāta | |
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| Type | Canonical text |
| Parent | Khuddaka Nikāya |
| Contains | Uragavagga, Cūḷavagga, Mahāvagga, Aṭṭhakavagga and Pārāyanavagga |
| Attribution | Bhāṇaka |
| Commentary | Paramatthajotikā (Suttanipāta-aṭṭhakathā) |
| Commentator | Buddhaghosa |
| Abbreviation | Snp; Sn |
| Pāli Canon |
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| Theravāda Buddhism |
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The Sutta Nipāta (lit. 'Section of the Suttas') is a Buddhist scripture, a sutta collection in the Khuddaka Nikāya, part of the Sutta Piṭaka of the Pāli Canon of Theravāda Buddhism. Sutta Nipata is a collection of discourses of Buddha. It is part of an early corpus of Buddhist literature. Robert Chalmers explains that sutta means a consecutive thread of teaching and Hermann Oldenberg explained that nipata denotes a small collection.