Khuddaka-Nikaya
The Khuddaka Nikaya ( The smaller / shorter collection ) is the last of five Nikāyas ( "Collections" ), from which the Suttapitaka there.
It is a mixture of aphorisms, songs, poems, fairy tales and fables collected in 15 independent works.
Note: The Burmese version of the Khuddaka Nikaya contains three additional books, so that it consists of a total of 18 books.
German -language editions
- Fritz Schaefer: Verse to breathe, The collection Udana. Beyerlein and stone Schulte, 1998, ISBN 3-931095-17-7
- Hellmuth Hecker: Itivuttaka: collection of aphorisms. Beyerlein & Stone Schulte, 2004, ISBN 3-931095-47-9
- Nyanaponika Mahathera: Sutta Nipata, early Buddhist teaching seals. Beyerlein and stone Schulte, 1996, ISBN 3-931095-06-1
- Hellmuth Hecker ( translator's ): Vimana - Vatthu: Roads to Heaven. Beyerlein & Stone Schulte, 2004, ISBN 3-931095-30-4
- Hellmuth Hecker ( translator's ): Peta - Vatthu: The Buddhist Book of the Dead. Beyerlein & Stone Schulte, 2004, ISBN 3-931095-31-2