The First Fifty Discourses of Gotama the Buddha

Foreword In order that the reader of English may have some opportunity of judging what has been done in preparing the present volume from the original, there will be given at the end as Appendix following the Recension published by the Pali Text Society of England a close and full rendering of the first three Discourses, which may be taken as fairly representative in style and wording of all that follow in their unabridged form.

For a full translation of the entire collection, readers of German may be referred to Dr. K. E. Neumann's monumental work in three large volumes: "Die Reden Gotamo Buddhos", which the present translator has had the advantage of consulting in the prosecution of his own task.

The same versatile scholar, Dr. Neumann, in collaboration with Professor Giuseppe de Lorenzo of Naples, has also issued a full version in Italian of the first fifty Discourses of the Col- lection the title: "I Discorsi di Gotamo Buddho."

The translator here takes the opportunity of his deep indebtedness to the Bhikkhu Nyana- tiloka of Galle, Ceylon, for valuable help received in the rendering of many difficult passages.

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