Abraham Vélez
Amadeo Solé-Leris

Majjhima Nikâya

Original title:

Majjhima Nikâya. Los sermones medios del Buddha

About the book:

Majjhima Nikâya

This is an excellent translation from the original Pali version of the Majjhima Nikaya, one of the principal collections of sermons by the historical Buddha.

Buddha’s Middle Sermons are the teachings that Buddha preached 2,.500 years ago in India and they constitute a very important part of the Buddhist canon in Pali (the language of the Buddha). These teachings were preserved for centuries in the monasteries of Sri Lanka and have gradually spread to the whole world, first in the East and then in the West, where interest in Buddhism in growing every day.

The present volume contains 50 of the complete 152 sermons, collected by themes and annotated in order to facilitate understanding. Up until now it was extremely difficult, if not impossible, to know these ancient texts in their integrity due to a lack of translations, certainly from the original Pali. We hope thereby to contribute with this excellent translation to a better knowledge of “Buddha’s teachings” as they were received and compiled by his first disciples.

About the author:

Amadeo Solé-Leris has spent the last thirty years studying and practicing Buddha’s teachings. He has travelled widely in the East and is an expert in Pali. He is author of the renouned La meditación budista, which has been translated into English, German and Italian. He is also author of numerous articles published in Europe and Asia. 

J. Abraham Vélez is a philosopher, Master in Science of Religions and researcher of the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies of Sarnath (India). He is the author of Buddha and expert in Pali and buddhism.