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Aṅguttara Nikāya

The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha

Bhikkhu Bodhi

Aṅguttara Nikāya

The Book of Gradual Sayings: 5 Volume Set

F.L. Woodward (I, II, V); E.M. Hare (III, IV)

ISBN 9780860132554

Five-volume edition.

Aṅguttara Nikāya; Petavatthu

Selected discourses and verses

Bhikkhu Kovilo

Two selected texts in the public corpus; not full AN or Petavatthu editions.

Apadāna

Legends of the Buddhist Saints

Jonathan S. Walters

Includes verse narratives of monks and nuns. Check Apadāna numbering between editions.

Bhikkhu and bhikkhunī Pātimokkha

The Pātimokkha

K.R. Norman; edited by William Pruitt

PTS, 2001 and later printings

Monks’ and nuns’ rules with Pāli and English on facing pages.

Bhikkhu Pātimokkha

The Bhikkhu Pātimokkha: A Word by Word Translation

Bhikkhu Ñāṇatusita

ISBN 9789552404047

The monks’ rules only, not the entire Vinaya.

Buddhavaṃsa + Cariyāpiṭaka

The Chronicle of Buddhas & The Basket of Conduct

I.B. Horner

ISBN 9780860135494

Also published as Minor Anthologies of the Pali Canon, Volume III (1975).

Cariyāpiṭaka

Cariyāpiṭaka

Bhikkhu Mahinda

Dhammapada

Dhammapada

A.P. Buddhadatta

1954 edition

Edition details and the extent of the English text need verification.

Dhammapada

The Dhammapada: The Buddha’s Path of Wisdom

Acharya Buddharakkhita

Translation with an introduction by Bhikkhu Bodhi.

Dhammapada

A Dhammapada for Contemplation

Ajahn Munindo

English rendering for contemplation, drawing on other translations; not treated as a literal independent translation.

Dhammapada

Hymns of Faith

Albert J. Edmunds

1902

Edition details and the extent of the English text need verification.

Dhammapada

Law Verses / Dhammapada

Ananda Maitreya; revised by Rose Kramer

1978 / revised edition

Edition details and the extent of the English text need verification. Bibliographies describe this as a revision; independence is not assumed.

Dhammapada

Dhammapada in English Verse

Bhante Varado and Samanera Bodhesako

2007

Complete English verse translation credited to Bhante Varado and Samanera Bodhesako.

Dhammapada

Dhammapada

C. Kunhan Raja

1956

Edition details and the extent of the English text need verification.

Dhammapada

Dhammapada

Daniel Gogerly

1840; selections

Edition details and the extent of the English text need verification.

Dhammapada

Path of Righteousness

David J. Kalupahana

1986

Edition details and the extent of the English text need verification.

Dhammapada

The Dhammapada: Verses and Stories

Daw Mya Tin

Translation with commentary stories; details retained from the earlier source-label register.

Dhammapada

Dhammapada

Dhammajoti

1944

Edition details and the extent of the English text need verification.

Dhammapada

Dhammapada

E.W. Adikaram

1954

Edition details and the extent of the English text need verification.

Dhammapada

The Dhammapada

Eknath Easwaran

Dhammapada

The Dhammapada

Gil Fronsdal

2005 translation; updated 2023 paperback / 2024 digital edition

ISBN 9781611805994

Original and updated Shambhala editions; treated as one translation with revisions, not independent translations.

Dhammapada

The Dhammapada

Glenn Wallis

ISBN 9780812977271

Dhammapada

Wisdom of the Buddha

Harischandra Kaviratna

1980

Complete Dhammapada translation verified in the publisher’s online edition.

Dhammapada

Dhammapada

Irving Babbitt

1936; Müller revision

Edition details and the extent of the English text need verification. Bibliographies describe this as a revision; independence is not assumed.

Dhammapada

Dhammapada

J. Gray

1881

Edition details and the extent of the English text need verification.

Dhammapada

Dhammapada

J.P. Cooke and O.G. Pettis

1898

Edition details and the extent of the English text need verification.

Dhammapada

Dhammapada

Jack Maguire

2002; Müller revision

Edition details and the extent of the English text need verification. Bibliographies describe this as a revision; independence is not assumed.

Dhammapada

Dhammapada (John Richards rendering)

John Richards

Based on Harischandra Kaviratna’s English translation; not an independent translation from Pāli.

Dhammapada

The Dhammapada

John Ross Carter and Mahinda Palihawadana

Full and shorter paperback editions share a translation but differ in apparatus.

Dhammapada

The Dhammapada

Juan Mascaró

ISBN 9780140442847

Dhammapada

Dhammapada

K. Gunaratana

1937

Edition details and the extent of the English text need verification.

Dhammapada

Word of the Doctrine

K.R. Norman

ISBN 9780860135104

Dhammapada

The Path of Truth

Khantipalo

1977 title

Edition details and the extent of the English text need verification.

Dhammapada

Dhammapada

N.K. Bhagwat

1931/1935

Edition details and the extent of the English text need verification.

Dhammapada

The Dhammapada: Pali Text and Translation

Nārada Mahāthera

Dhammapada

The Dhammapada and its Commentary

Nārada Mahāthera, revised by Bhikkhu Pesala

Revision of Nārada’s translation with commentary stories; not an independent translation.

Dhammapada

Dhammapada

Norton T.W. Hazeldine

1902

Edition details and the extent of the English text need verification.

Dhammapada

Dhammapada

P. Lal

1967/1970

Edition details and the extent of the English text need verification.

Dhammapada

Dhammapada — The Way of Truth

Peter Feldmeier

2013

Translation and commentary published by Buddhist Publication Society. The linked source identifies the edition.

Dhammapada

Dhammapada

R.D. Shrikhande / P.L. Vaidya

1923; attribution uncertain

Edition details and the extent of the English text need verification.

Dhammapada

Dhammapada

Raghavan Iyer

1986

Edition details and the extent of the English text need verification.

Dhammapada

The Way of Truth

S.W. Wijayatilake

1934

Edition details and the extent of the English text need verification.

Dhammapada

Dhammapada: The Way of Truth

Sangharakshita

ISBN 9781899579938

Also included in Complete Works volume 15.

Dhammapada

The Dhammapada

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

ISBN 9780195640809

Dhammapada

Dhammapada

Sīlācāra

1915

Edition details and the extent of the English text need verification.

Dhammapada

Dhammapada

Siri Sivali

1954

Edition details and the extent of the English text need verification.

Dhammapada

Dhammapada

Suriyagoda Sumangala

1915

Edition details and the extent of the English text need verification.

Dhammapada

The Path of the Eternal Law

Swami Premananda

1942

Edition details and the extent of the English text need verification.

Dhammapada

Dhammapada

Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu

Part of the dhammatalks.org translation project and Handful of Leaves anthology.

Dhammapada

The Dhammapada

Thomas Byrom

ISBN 9780877739661

A free verse rendering; wording may differ substantially from literal translations.

Dhammapada

Dhammapada: The Sayings of Buddha

Thomas Cleary

ISBN identifies the collected volume

ISBN 9781590302224

Also included in Classics of Buddhism and Zen, Volume Five.

Dhammapada

Dhammapada

U.D. Jayasekera

1992

Edition details and the extent of the English text need verification.

Dhammapada

The Dhammapada

Valerie J. Roebuck

ISBN 9780141963556

Dhammapada

Dhammapada

W. Somalokatissa

1953

Edition details and the extent of the English text need verification.

Dhammapada

The Buddha’s Way of Virtue

W.D.C. Wagiswara and K.J. Saunders

1912

Wagiswara and Saunders translation; digitized public-domain text verified.

Dhammapada

Treasury of Truth

Weragoda Sarada

1993

Complete Dhammapada translation with stories and explanatory material; text and illustrated PDFs are available.

Dhammapada + Khuddakapāṭha

Minor Anthologies of the Pali Canon, Volume I

C.A.F. Rhys Davids

1931 edition; historical bibliographic source.

Dhammapada and selected Pali suttas

Pāli Canon Teachings and Translations (Complete Works 15)

Sangharakshita

Includes additional sutta translations alongside the Dhammapada; overlaps the separately listed Dhammapada.

Dhammapada selections

Dhammapada Reflections — Volume One

Ajahn Munindo

Selected verses with reflections; related to the separately listed Dhammapada rendering, not asserted to be an independent translation.

Dhammapada selections

Dhammapada Reflections — Volume Two

Ajahn Munindo

Selected verses with reflections; related to the separately listed Dhammapada rendering, not asserted to be an independent translation.

Dhammapada selections

Selections from the Dhammapada

Piyadassi Thera

Selected verses in a 1974 BPS booklet.

Dhammasaṅgaṇī

A Buddhist Manual of Psychological Ethics

C.A.F. Rhys Davids

ISBN 9780860130628

Dhātukathā

Discourse on Elements

U Nārada

ISBN 9780860130253

Dīgha Nikāya

The Long Discourses of the Buddha

Maurice Walshe

ISBN 9780861711031

Dīgha Nikāya

Dialogues of the Buddha: 3 volume set

T.W. Rhys Davids and C.A.F. Rhys Davids

ISBN 9780860132585

Three-volume edition.

DN, MN, SN and AN — scope to verify

English Nikāya translations

Sister Uppalavaṇṇā

MettaNet corpus lead. Completeness and reachable source files need verification.

DN, MN, SN, AN and many Khuddaka texts

SuttaCentral translations

Bhikkhu Sujato

The main four Nikāyas and selected Khuddaka collections. Public coverage below is measured against the current search corpus.

Itivuttaka

Itivuttaka

Bhikkhu Mahinda

Jātaka

The Jātaka (Cowell edition)

E.B. Cowell, editor; Chalmers, Rouse, Francis, Neil and others

Includes commentarial prose alongside the canonical verses.

Kathāvatthu

Points of Controversy

Shwe Zan Aung and C.A.F. Rhys Davids

ISBN 9780860130024

Khuddakapāṭha

The Minor Readings and The Illustrator of Ultimate Meaning

Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli

ISBN 9780860130239

Includes the Illustrator of Ultimate Meaning commentary.

Majjhima Nikāya

The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha

Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi

Majjhima Nikāya

Middle Length Sayings: 3 volume set

I.B. Horner

ISBN 9780860132622

Three-volume edition.

Majjhima Nikāya

Further Dialogues of the Buddha (2 volumes)

Robert Chalmers

Two volumes, 1926–1927.

Majjhima Nikāya; Suttanipāta

Selected discourses

Suddhāso Bhikkhu

Four texts in the public corpus; the Dhammapada is listed separately.

Milindapañha

Milinda's Questions: 2 volume set

I.B. Horner

ISBN 9780860132639

Two-volume edition.

Milindapañha

Milindapañha — selected translations

John Kelly

100 source texts; does not cover every Pāli text in the indexed Milindapañha.

Milindapañha

The Questions of King Milinda

T.W. Rhys Davids

Milindapañha (adaptation)

The Debate of King Milinda

Bhikkhu Pesala

Condensed modern presentation; distinct from a complete scholarly translation.

Nettippakaraṇa

The Guide

Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli

ISBN 9780860130246

Niddesa

Mahāniddesa and Cūḷaniddesa

Various / edition to verify

Unresolved coverage lead, not a verified English edition. PTS lists its Niddesa as unavailable in translation; this does not rule out other translators.

Pātimokkha, Mahāvagga and Cullavagga

Vinaya Texts (3 volumes)

T.W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg

1881–1885; numerous reprints

Sacred Books of the East 13, 17 and 20. These cover parts of the Vinaya.

Paṭisambhidāmagga

The Path of Discrimination

Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli

ISBN 9780860135425

Paṭṭhāna

Conditional Relations: 2 volume set

U Nārada

ISBN 9780860132578

This two-volume publication translates part of the Tikapaṭṭhāna, not the entire Paṭṭhāna.

Peṭakopadesa

Piṭaka Disclosure

Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli

ISBN 9780860130260

Petavatthu

Peta Stories

U Ba Kyaw and Peter Masefield

ISBN 9780860130758

Translation includes commentary.

Puggalapaññatti

A Designation of Human Types

B.C. Law

ISBN 9780860130093

Saṃyutta Nikāya

The Connected Discourses of the Buddha

Bhikkhu Bodhi

Saṃyutta Nikāya

The Book of the Kindred Sayings: 5 volume set

C.A.F. Rhys Davids (I–II); F.L. Woodward (III–V)

ISBN 9780860132561

Five-volume edition.

Selected Nikāya suttas; several Khuddaka books

dhammatalks.org translations

Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu

Selected Nikāya suttas and complete translations of several Khuddaka books. Handful of Leaves is an anthology of this same translation project, not a separate independent translation.

Selected suttas across the Nikāyas

Sutta Discovery series

Piya Tan

An ongoing series with extensive essays and commentary; not a complete four-Nikāya edition.

Selected suttas, Vinaya passages and Khuddaka texts

Pāli discourse translations at Ancient Buddhist Texts

Ānandajoti Bhikkhu

Project overview, including DN 16, MN 26, MN 85 and Suttanipāta 5. Dhammapada and Udāna have separate entries; some works include commentary.

Selections from the Pāli canon and post-canonical texts

Daily Readings from Buddha’s Words of Wisdom

S. Dhammika

365 short readings; overlapping anthology rather than a complete canonical collection.

Suttanipāta

The Suttanipāta

Bhikkhu Bodhi

Suttanipāta

Woven Cadences of Early Buddhists

E.M. Hare

Sacred Books of the Buddhists 15, 1945; also reprinted.

Suttanipāta

The Sutta-Nipāta: A New Translation from the Pali Canon

Hammalawa Saddhatissa

Curzon / Routledge; 1985, later editions

ISBN 9780700701810

Suttanipāta

The Rhinoceros Horn and Other Early Buddhist Poems — alternative renderings

I.B. Horner and Walpola Rahula, alongside K.R. Norman

The main text overlaps Norman’s translation. The extent of Horner and Rahula’s alternative renderings needs checking.

Suttanipāta

The Group of Discourses

K.R. Norman

ISBN 9780860133032

Second edition with notes. The Rhinoceros Horn packages this translation with additional renderings, tracked separately.

Suttanipāta

Suttanipāta

Laurence Khantipalo Mills (with Sujato on two items)

Suttanipāta translation, with Sujato credited on two items.

Suttanipāta

Suttanipāta: Text and Translation

N.A. Jayawickrama

University of Kelaniya, 2001

The linked catalogue labels the title as Pāli text. Verify the English text-and-translation edition before linking a copy.

Suttanipāta

Buddha’s Teachings: Being the Sutta-Nipāta or Discourse-Collection

Robert Chalmers

Harvard Oriental Series 37, 1932. Pāli and English.

Suttanipāta

The Sutta-Nipāta (Sacred Books of the East X, Part II)

Viggo Fausböll

Suttanipāta 4

The Aṭṭhakavagga: Pali, with English Translation

Paññobhāsa Bhikkhu

Path Press, 2012

The fourth chapter of the Suttanipāta only.

Suttanipāta 4 (Aṭṭhakavagga)

The Buddha before Buddhism

Gil Fronsdal

ISBN 9781611803242

Aṭṭhakavagga only, not the whole Suttanipāta.

Suttanipāta selections

The Discourse Collection: Selected Texts from the Sutta Nipata

John D. Ireland

Suttanipāta, Book IV (Aṭṭhakavagga)

Sutta-Nipāta: A Translation of Book IV

Lesley Fowler Lebkowicz and Tamara Ditrich, with Primoz Pecenko

Covers Book IV only; the download’s short title does not mean the entire Suttanipāta.

Suttanipāta: Books IV–V and selected other suttas

The Silent Sages of Old

Ven. Ñāṇadīpa Mahāthera

Second edition, Path Press, 2020 (first edition 2018)

ISBN 9789460900198

Includes Aṭṭhakavagga and Pārāyanavagga plus Muni, Sammāparibbājaniya and Sabhiya suttas; not the whole Suttanipāta.

Theragāthā

Theragāthā

Bhikkhu Mahinda

Theragāthā

Elders' Verses - prose: Vol I

K.R. Norman

ISBN 9780860134343

Theragāthā + Therīgāthā

Psalms of the Early Buddhists

C.A.F. Rhys Davids

ISBN 9780860130765

The Brethren and The Sisters, also issued together.

Therīgāthā

Therīgāthā

Bhikkhu Mahinda

Therīgāthā

Therigatha / Poems of the First Buddhist Women

Charles Hallisey

Therīgāthā

Elders' Verses - prose: Vol II

K.R. Norman

ISBN 9780860134367

Therīgāthā

The First Buddhist Women: Translations and Commentary on the Therigatha

Susan Murcott

Organized with biographies and commentary. Verse coverage has not been audited.

Udāna

Exalted Utterances (Udāna)

Ānandajoti Bhikkhu

English version 3, November 2011

All eighty Udāna discourses. Bilingual and English-only editions are versions of the same translation.

Udāna

Udāna

Bhikkhu Mahinda

Udāna + Itivuttaka

Minor Anthologies: Vol II

F.L. Woodward

ISBN 9780860130369

Contains Verses of Uplift and As It Was Said.

Udāna + Itivuttaka

The Udāna and the Itivuttaka

John D. Ireland

ISBN 9789552401640

Both Udāna and Itivuttaka. Verify the availability of the publisher’s digital edition.

Udāna + Itivuttaka

The Udāna and The Itivuttaka

Peter Masefield

ISBN 9780860135012

Two translations combined in a 2013 volume; distinct from the larger commentary volumes.

Vibhaṅga

The Book of Analysis

U Thittila

ISBN 9780860130307

Vibhaṅga commentary

Dispeller of Delusion

Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli

Two-volume translation of the commentary on the Vibhaṅga.

Vimānavatthu

Vimāna Stories

Peter Masefield

ISBN 9780860132721

Translation includes commentary.

Vimānavatthu + Petavatthu

Minor Anthologies: Vol IV

I.B. Horner (Vimānavatthu); H.S. Gehman (Petavatthu)

ISBN 9780860130734

Vinaya

The Book of the Discipline: Complete Set of 6 Volumes

I.B. Horner

ISBN 9780860132547

Six-volume edition.

Vinaya — Mahāvagga

Mahāvagga

Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu

Pāli-English translation; part of the Vinaya, not a complete Vinaya edition.

Vinaya rules and explanations

The Buddhist Monastic Code, Volumes I & II

Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu

Revised September 10, 2025

Translations of rules with extensive explanation; not a continuous translation of the whole Vinaya.

Yamaka + commentary

The Book of Pairs and its Commentary: 3 volume set

C.M.M. Shaw and L.S. Cousins

ISBN 9780860135418