Selected Connected Discourses of the Buddha
The Saṃyutta Nikāya organizes the Buddha's teaching by theme — one "connection" (saṃyutta) for discourses on dependent origination, one for the five aggregates, one for the six sense fields, one for the noble eightfold path, and dozens more, gathered into five books. Depending on how the many short, thematically-clustered entries are counted, the whole collection runs to well over 2,900 individual suttas — again too large to cover exhaustively the way we have with the Majjhima and Dīgha Nikāya series.
This is a curated selection, not a complete collection: twenty discourses spanning all five books, chosen because they contain some of the most famous and doctrinally central teachings in the entire Pāli Canon — including the Buddha's first sermon, the second sermon on non-self, and the Fire Sermon. Each entry has the same reading guide, full Sujato translation, and self-check quiz as our other series.
Linked rows have a published reading guide. Unlinked rows are listed for context and may be added later.
