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Aṅguttara Nikāya

Selected Numbered Discourses of the Buddha

The Aṅguttara Nikāya organizes the Buddha's teaching entirely by number — one chapter (nipāta) for teachings framed around a single item, one for pairs, one for triads, and on up through elevens. Depending on how you count its many short, formulaic entries, it runs anywhere from roughly 2,300 to well over 8,000 individual suttas — by far the largest of the four main Nikāyas, and the least practical to work through one full study page at a time.

This is not a complete collection like our Majjhima Nikāya or Dīgha Nikāya series. It is a curated selection: eighteen discourses, drawn from the Threes through the Elevens, chosen because they are widely quoted, doctrinally important, or simply among the most useful teachings in the entire numbered collection. Each entry has the same reading guide, full Sujato translation, and self-check quiz as our other series.

A note on scope: the Ones and Twos are made up almost entirely of very short, repetitive one-line formulas not suited to this kind of in-depth page, so this selection begins at the Threes. We may add further selected entries over time, but we are not aiming for exhaustive coverage of this Nikāya the way we are with the Majjhima and Dīgha collections.
Discourses
18 selected, spanning the Threes (tika) through the Elevens (ekādasaka)
English source
Bhikkhu Sujato, released CC0 by SuttaCentral
Pāli source
Mahāsaṅgīti edition, CC0
Reference
Bhikkhu Bodhi, The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha (Wisdom, 2012)
Chinese parallel
Many discourses have a counterpart in the Ekottarika-āgama (T125), preserved in Chinese

The selection

Linked rows have a published reading guide. Unlinked rows are listed for context and may be added later.

Sattaka Nipāta — The Sevens
Navaka Nipāta — The Nines
Ekādasaka Nipāta — The Elevens