Help with Majjhima Nikaya Reference?

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Help with Majjhima Nikaya Reference?

Postby Mettajhana » Wed Mar 06, 2013 11:38 am

Hi everyone. I am reading Analayo's Satipatthana, The Direct Path to Realisation and also have a copy of the Majjhima Nikaya (Bhikkhu Bodi, Wisdom).

For the life of me I cannot fathom how to map the notations in Satipatthana to the MN. Here's an example: M I 435 or M III 16.

Is he referring to a different translation to the one I have?

Many thanks,
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Re: Help with Majjhima Nikaya Reference?

Postby daverupa » Wed Mar 06, 2013 12:04 pm

It's simply a different citation style; check the page headers in your translation, and you will see "i 47" and such. So, ignore the M, and look for "i 35" or "iii 16", to use your examples.
    "There is, headman, dhammasamādhi. If you were to obtain cittasamādhi in that, you might abandon this state of perplexity. And what, headman, is dhammasamādhi?

    [kammapatha & brahmavihara, & a method of arousing gladness]"
- SN 42.13 - Pāṭaliya


    "Others will misapprehend according to their individual views, hold on to them tenaciously and not easily discard them; we shall not misapprehend according to individual views nor hold on to them tenaciously, but shall discard them with ease — thus effacement can be done."
- MN 8 - Sallekha Sutta
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Re: Help with Majjhima Nikaya Reference?

Postby Dmytro » Wed Mar 06, 2013 12:05 pm

Hi Mettajhana,

Here's an explanation of numbering:

http://web.archive.org/web/201202242221 ... /bs12.html

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Re: Help with Majjhima Nikaya Reference?

Postby Mettajhana » Wed Mar 06, 2013 12:37 pm

That's marvellous. Thanks guys. I have really poor eyesight and that numbering is near the binding on each page so i'd completely missed it!

thanks again :)
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Re: Help with Majjhima Nikaya Reference?

Postby Modus.Ponens » Wed Mar 06, 2013 12:40 pm

Thank you Dmytro! That is a very complicated system that I finaly understand (I think); and outdated.
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