Buddha's First Sutta

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Resources for researching the Buddha's First Sutta

Sa¸yutta Nik¤ya, V:
MahaVagga, 12:
SakkyaSa¸yutta, ii:
Dhammacakkapavattanavaggo, 1:
DhammaCakkappaVattana Sutta

(SN V: 12.ii.11; SN LVI 11)

Introduction to the Buddha's First Discourse

by Narada Maha Thera

http://www.buddhadust.org/sutta/sn/mv/suttas/intro_narada.htm

Setting in Motion the Wheel of the Dhamma

Translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi

http://www.buddhadust.org/sutta/sn/mv/suttas/sn_lvi.11_bodhi.htm

Foundation of the Kingdom of Righteousness

Translated by Rhys Davids

http://www.buddhadust.org/buddhistsuttas/rd_bs_2.htm

From the Rhys Davids Introduction: "It would be difficult to estimate too highly the historical value of this Sutta. There can be no reasonable doubt that the very ancient tradition accepted by all Buddhists as to the substance of the discourse is correct, and that we really have in it a summary of the words in which the great Indian thinker and reformer for the first time successfully promulgated his new ideas. And it presents to us in a few short and pithy sentences the very essence of that remarkable system which has had so profound an influence on the religious history of so large a portion of the human race."

Setting Rolling the Wheel of Truth

Translated by Ñanamoli Thera

http://www.buddhadust.org/sutta/sn/mv/suttas/sn_lvi.11_nanamoli.htm

The Formula of the Revolution of the Wheel of Experience

Translated by Venerable Punnaji

http://www.buddhadust.org/sutta/sn/mv/suttas/sn_v.12.2_vp-trans.htm

Setting in Motion the Wheel of Truth

Translated from the Pali by Piyadassi Thera

http://www.buddhadust.org/sutta/sn/mv/suttas/sn_lvi.11_piyadassi.htm

Setting the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion

Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

http://www.buddhadust.org/sutta/sn/mv/suttas/sn_lvi.11_thanissaro.htm

Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta

The Pali

http://www.buddhadust.org/sutta/sn/mv/pali/sn_v.12.2_pali.htm

Additional References:

PTS, L. Feer, Samyutta-Nikaya V: Maha-vagga XII: Sacca-Samyutta 2: Dhammacakkapavattana-vaggo, pp 420
PTS, F.L. Woodward, trans., The Book of the Kindred Sayings V: The Great Chapter XI: Kindred Sayings about the Truths II: Foundation of the Kingdom of the Norm, pp 356
WP, Bhikkhu Bodhi, trans., The Connected Discourses of the Buddha II: The Great Book 12: Connected Discourses on the Truths 2: Setting in Motion the Wheel of the Dhamma, pp1843 (same as above)

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