EBT major texts

March of the Arahants

EBT transmitted via oral tradition.

👑☸ Cattāri Ariya-saccaṃ 四聖諦

4👑☸ → 🏛️

🏛️ ¹ – Thera-vāda: sayings of the elders
🏛️ ^1.1 - EBT Thera-vāda: early buddhist teachings period
🏛️ ^1.2 - LBT Thera-vāda with high % EBT
🏛️ ^1.3 - LBT Thera-vāda with serious issues, incompatible with core EBT
🏛️ ² – Chinese Āgamas
🏛️ ¹¹ – Lucid24.org EBT guides

Major Texts

1 – Thera-vāda: sayings of the elders

1.1 - EBT Thera-vāda: early buddhist teachings period

AN → Aṅguttara Nikāya: numbered collection

DN → Dīgha Nikāya: long collection

KN‍ → Khuddaka Nikāya: small collection

MN‍ → Majjhima Nikāya: Middle (length) collection

SN‍ → Saṃyutta Nikāya: connected collection

Vin‍ → Vinaya: monastic code of discipline

Theravada collection of nikāyas, in alphabetical order

Nipatas (books) go from 1 to 11

long discourses

khuddaka, collection of small discourses

middle length discourses

connected discourses

Vinaya

KN Thag

KN Thig

KN Iti

KN Dhp

KN Ud

KN Ja

KN Mil

KN Pe

KN Ps

KN Mnd, Cnd

🔗📝 collection of notes KN Cnd, KN Mnd

KN Snp

LBT late buddhist teachings

Abhidhamma

Ab Vb vibhanga

patthana

Comments

Lucid24.org: What's new?

Link to lucid24.org home page : 4👑☸ Remember, you may have to click the refresh button on your web browser navigation bar at to get updated website. 2026 1-30 Overhauled the DN, MN, SN menu pages - Supreme navigation January 30, 2026 2025 12-16 2025-12 December: Major update on look and feel of Lucid24.org 2024 9-17 Lots of new stuff in the last 2 and a half years. Too many to list. Main one justifying new blog entry, is redesign of home page. Before, it was designed to please me, super dense with everything in one master control panel. I've redesigned it to be friendly to newbies and everyone really. Clear structure, more use of space. At someone's request, I added a lucid24.org google site search at top of home page. 2022 4-14 Major update to lucid24.org, easy navigation of suttas, quicklink: the ramifications 4-2 new feature lucid24.org sutta quick link 3-28 A new translation of SN 38.16, and first jhāna is a lot easier than you think 🔗📝notes relat...

AN 9.36, MN 64, MN 111: How does Ajahn Brahm and Sujato's "Jhāna" work here?

What these 3 suttas have in common, AN 9.36, MN 64, MN 111, is the very interesting feature of explicitly describing doing vipassana, while one is in the jhāna and the first 3 formless attainments. LBT (late buddhist text) apologists, as well as Sujato, Brahm, claim that the suttas describe a jhāna where one enters a disembodied, frozen state, where vipassana is impossible until one emerges from that 'jhāna'. Since Sujato translated all the suttas, let's take a look at what he translated, and how it supports his interpretation of 'jhāna'. AN 9.36: Jhānasutta—Bhikkhu Sujato (suttacentral.net) ‘The first absorption is a basis for ending the defilements.’ ‘Paṭhamampāhaṁ, bhikkhave, jhānaṁ nissāya āsavānaṁ khayaṁ vadāmī’ti, iti kho panetaṁ vuttaṁ. That’s what I said, but why did I say it? Kiñcetaṁ paṭicca vuttaṁ? Take a mendicant who, q uite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unskill...

My thoughts on Dalai Lama kissing boy, and the solution

HHDL = His holiness, the Dalai Lama I've collected good references here, including the actual video, and snippets from forums discussions containing valid critcism and explanations of cultural context, and most importantly, what the rules of the actual vinaya that buddhist monks are supposed to follow: 1min. video: Dalai Lama kissing boy and asking him to suck his tongue At the time of this writing, HHDL is about 88 years old. He has an exemplary record devoting his life to compassionate service to all living beings, as a Tibetan Buddhist monk. In this age of 'me too', everyone with a cell phone with high resolution cameras, and the ability to quickly publicize any indiscretion or sexual crime, we've seen sexual predators in positions of power being exposed and convicted. Leaders of large corporations, governments, professional sports, doctors, leaders in all religions. Tibetan Buddhism has an especially poor track record with corrupt sexual predators. https://thewal...

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