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Khuddaka Nikaya

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Khuddaka Nikaya

(Pali: “Short Collection”) Collection of Buddhist texts. It constitutes the fifth and last section of the Pali-language Sutta Pitaka, one of the sacred texts of Theravada Buddhism. Written between 500 BC and the 1st century AD, its contents include sermons and doctrinal and ethical discourses attributed to the Buddha. It also contains all the major poetic works of the Pali canon (see Tripitaka).



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